Aram Zucker-Scharff

“”What we are witnessing are deliberately outrageous acts designed to create a spectacle and to instil fear in a target population […] tell me that young women aren’t supposed to look at the harassment of Sarkeesian for being a public figure and get the message: ‘This could happen to you, […] Watch your mouth.’ “”

– Online abuse, leaked nudes and revenge porn: this is nothing less than terrorism against women.

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Even before the Kickstarter fundraising finished she was subjected to death and rape threats. Someone made a game where players could beat her up, she was subjected to racial and sexist slurs, and she was labelled a liar and a con artist. Sarkeesian became a lightning rod for attacks from anyone pissed off at the concept of serious literary criticism of gaming, especially from a feminist perspective.

And, again, what Sarkeesian is doing is standard pop culture criticism, of the kind that films and books have been subjected to for decades

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– Tropes vs Anita Sarkeesian: on passing off anti-feminist nonsense as critique.

“it’s absurd to believe that men, by returning to primitive and misogynistic behaviours, would deserve a higher position in society, or a position in society at all. If men truly are worried that their voices are becoming distant, then it’s only with advanced learning, greater understanding and informed opinions that they can expect to be listened to more closely. A perspective on social issues won’t be affirmed by acting childishly, or by complaining that men aren’t allowed to whistle at women in the street any more. It’ll be done, basically, by thinking and talking more like feminists.”

– The real problem men face today is not the rise of women.