“I think it’s fair to be called out on your shit […] I think that it’s a sad man…”

“”I think it’s fair to be called out on your shit […] I think that it’s a sad man that can never be self-reflective. I think that we tried to go and carry ourselves with respect, and try to respect sexuality and respect gender as much as we can, and sometimes we fail but hopefully we’ll do better and continue to get better.””

Saints Row Writer Accepts Anita Sarkeesian’s Critique of His Games.

“Even before the Kickstarter fundraising finished she was subjected to death and rape threats….”

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

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