The political posts in this thread are really “unpopular opinions among liberals”. Nothing wrong with that just an observation. My first two posts were aimed at The Bore’s consensus rather than popular opinion. Never hurts to know your audience.
-Anita Sarkeesian does make some valid points -that everyone already knew- in video game videos, but is generally full of shit and clearly attempted to do what she did to make herself known and make money. It worked.
If everyone already knows, why does she get ceaseless death threats? Why did she have to disable comments on her videos? Why does trash like this appear in the related videos every time I watch her stuff?
How is she full of shit? What's so wrong about her getting paid for her work?
"Everyone" was meant in the "vast sensible majority". Much like everyone knows Nazi Germany did exterminate millions of people, firstly jews, but you'll still get negationist shitheads sending threats. Though there's an argument of a large a segment the vocal minority really is, I guess.
I'm not quite well versed in the whole thing, but she mostly leaned on crowdfunding for her work, didn't she ? One may disagree it makes a difference but I'd say it's a little bit different than being paid or selling a product to a price. I always found crowdfunding fraught with ambiguities. That said, I'd agree I wouldn't pass summary judgement on the basis of (purely speculated) intent. I think bork may have an issue with her being a popularizer of basic feminism views lagging much behind where the field might be in academics where all the real thinking is happening ?
Godwin coming in cue
Out of the three videos I linked, the least popular one had over 144,000 views. 98% of the people who rated it clicked “like”. The top rated comment at the moment praises the guy’s arguments.
Sarkeesian on the other hand doesn’t even allow comments or ratings because she’s come to expect absolute vitriol. On IMDB, the series is rated a harsh 1.2/10. Her
most watched video has nearly 3 millions views, but there’s a significant drop off after that point. Her last video in the Tropes vs. Women in Video games series didn’t even crack 700,000.
I started watching her videos years before she decided to focus on games. The kickstarter money (which I didn’t donate to because I have a personal policy against paying for things before they’re released) definitely led to a bump in production values as well as promotion for her channel. Whenever you’re donating money you should know that not 100% of the funds are going into the product’s production. Whatever she had left over is hers to keep and I don’t see anything immoral about that.
If you’re assertion of bork’s argument is correct, then he’s both giving far too much credit to the average male gamer and undermining Sarkeesian’s knowledge on the subject. The woman has a master’s in social and political thought. She’s a lot better versed than most of her critics. The videos are intended to be accessible to a large audience. Everyday there’s another few thousand boys born ignorant to the ills of sexism and there are lots of grown ass men with their heads in the sand. The 101 level exploration will always be necessary.
- privelage is a flawed argument/concept. According to those who use it, I have no privelage despite coming from a middle class/upper middle class family. I participated in organization like Jack and Jill and Top Teens as a teenager. Organizations that gave me an upper hand in leadership opportunities because my mother paid my dues. But according to many who use the privelage argument I'm not privileged over even rural white peoole who don't have that type of resource. Even if you want to argue that, I still clearly have privelage over many black people. But according to many who use the argument, I don't.
Whenever I’ve witnessed any discussion about privilege, the people involved usually have a mutual understanding that there isn’t a privilege/non-privilege binary. Most people benefit from some amount of privilege. A few less common ones off the top of my head: class privilege, light skin privilege, citizenship status privilege, able-bodied privilege, and neurotypical privilege. The list goes on and on. Everyone has unearned advantages. It doesn’t mean you’ll never encounter any hardships. I’ve literally never seen or heard anyone say that being white means your life will be perfect.
I remember listening to an Action Bronson interview where he talked about how he hated hearing people discussing how his race helped his career. It’s like it didn’t occur to him that it’s possible that: 1) He worked hard, is very talented, and deserves his success and 2) Being white helped him capture the attention (and money) of a lot of people who have a negative conception of hip-hop. Both things are true.
I hope I don’t come across as discounting your experiences or real arguments you’ve had with people. My twitter feed is largely people with SJW (I’ve embraced the term as a positive label) perspectives. I watch them discuss nearly every topic in terms of how they relate to race, gender, and other identities. I can’t recall anyone discuss privilege that way.
-Tyler was right
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Grow some fucking balls. Maybe I'm just old and grew up on an internet that didn't have rules, where fuckery was expected and tears were delivered.
Cyber-bullying encompasses more than “people said mean things about me online”. It’s people threatening to kill you, posting your name and home address online for the world to see, or publishing your nudes without your permission. This enables physical assault, tarnishes your chances at employment in many fields, and for the absolute worst cases, it ends in suicide.
What’s wrong with Deray? A lot of white Americans don’t like outspoken black people. The Coli hates him because he’s gay. What do sensible black people have against him? Is it purely his affiliation with Teach for America?
I admit to not knowing much about the guy. His Wikipedia page is short. He goes to a lot of protests and he ran unsuccessfully for mayor of Baltimore. That’s where my knowledge of him ends. He seems harmless. I’m totally open to hearing about his faults though.
