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LOL. Get her Tami!

Oh, that woman annoys me so!

It is a wonder she is not scared to brake a nail on the L2 R2 trigger.

Larry, tell me you didn't just say that...

Sorry, If the controls get to hard, her grip might slip.

ha, yeah I was pretty ambiguous about her, but this takes the cake.  I can't believe EA would consult with her about this stuff.  How did she get so big??  And saying Mirror's Edge was too hard?! I really agree with you and think she's not a hardcore gamer.  What games does she play?  She's changed from a crank to a destructive force. 

I mean, I appreciate what she's trying to say.  There are real issues, but she doesn't seem to have a handle on them, and has about as much knowledge about the industry as my dad, who's never played a game other than chess.  She is almost making the problem worse with the backlash she is creating. 

 I know of this woman but have not not read any of her stuff, but she really put her foot in her mouth. It really does make it obvious that her heart is really not in it and she does not believe in much less understand what she was trying to accomplish in the first place. I wish more women would play video games and think the only reason many don't has more to do with stupid stereotypes than with a real lack of interest.

Everyone keeps referrancing this Anita chick as if she's a big deal.. Why have I never heard of her before?

Either way.. Fuck her

Chris, she is a big deal. While I may not like her or her methods, what she's attempting to do does need to be done. There is rampant sexism in gamer culture and women are objectified. Take the themes for the PS3, for example. I haven't counted them, but there must be hundreds of near-naked chicks to display as the background for the dashboard. How many near-naked guys are there? Zero. Anita Sarkeesian just isn't the person who will make any positive changes, unfortunately.

I didn't know who she was. Just googled so I'm hip to it now. Perhaps she should have said it was too hard for HER instead of speaking for every female out there. Other than that, I feel really bad for all the harrassment she had to deal with regarding her kickstarter.

Yeah, "real female gamers" get it worse in online server fps land. You want to talk about a vile place of scum and villainy look no further than certain COD or Halo matches. (To a lesser extent the fighting game community suffers from the same problem. Which is strange, because I've never had a problem with the fighting game community then again,I haven't went up through the ranks to Evo tier either. )

I'm not saying EVERYONE who plays these games is an asshole but each of them do  have a lawless "wild west" territory in them depending on the server you jump onto.

There's also an actress in Iran who supposedely got 90 lashes for being in a certain movie yet I don't hear & read nearly as much about that as I do how games are potentially sexist. (Probably because even if there are feminists fighting the good fight in places like the middle east they don't have the time to friggin blog about it or put up tweets! "Texting" is cheap. Actions speak louder than words.)

I can't wait until there are awesome game development studios of all women.(Or at least ones with women bosses) Then I will not have to put up with nearly as many people like Anita Sarkesian.

She's just another member of the media cartel, who preach the virtues of 'narrative' and "experience(s)" over the vices of mechanics and challenge.  I choose to believe these people either can't hang with skill-based games, or they think games aping film will lend the hobby some kind of cultural importance and mainstream acceptance. Which is odd, because you have games like New Super Mario and Call of Duty selling 20-30 million copies, which seems to indicate games were already mainstream.

Just out of curiosity, did you (Rangergirl) send this statement of yours to Ms. Sarkeesian?

No, I wouldn't know how to get in touch with her. More than happy to, though.

Hahahaha I wouldnt want to instigate the situation, but I think she's on twitter, so it wouldn't be that hard to just link this blog post on her twitter.

If I did things like Twitter, I might do that. Feel free to link it if you'd like, though.

I don't do Twitter either haha.

Yeah, basically insulted the audience she is trying to stick up for. Not smart. 

She may have a point in that technically more people in general will play an easier game, but that should inform the first stage in a kiosk/online demo, not an entire game.

I can maybe see Anita's point of view when it comes to female depictions in games like Dragon's Crown, which is just ridiculous, but at the same time I like games like Dragon's Crown because they are so ridiculous and I don't want them to ever go away. I'm part of the problem.. 

She has very valid points, that's not my issue (well, I have issues with how she presents those points, but like I said, we'll save that for another time). My issue was her statement that more women would play games like Mirror's Edge if they weren't so hard.

I really liked your perspective. I hope you don't mind, but I tweeted out a link to your blog. I'd never have felt comfortable doing that before we locked comments to members only, but now that you're somewhat safe from random trolls, I think people should read this. 

Of course, if you'd like, I can pull the tweet

Actually, I appreciate your getting it out there for me. My social media saturation point was reached when I joined Facebook, lol.

I really hope she reads this at some point. She needs to,it might give her a bit of wisdom or insight. Things she is sorely lacking. It was pretty insulting to female gamers to imply Mirror's Edge had controls too complex for them to grasp. We have female surgeons,mechanics,fighter pilots,electricians,etc. who might have a different opinion on that. I don't think a game controller is too much of a challenge to master. Sarkeesian could have put that money to better use I think.

Heh. Sounds a little sexist of her to say that. Reminds me of sensationalist journalism.

THANK YOU!  

Sarkeesain is an ass.  If you pay attention to her vids, she insults the women she claims to be fighting for.  I noticed it in the beginning.  I wasn't sure until I showed the video to my wife & some of her friends and they came up with the same conclusion.  I'm glad you said it and not me.  If I say it, I'm a women hater, apparently.  

James, you and I have been on the same wave-length regarding her for a while now. And yes, that did need to be said by a woman. What I said about her to Jason is not fit to print, by the way. He was shocked for a second and then said: "Wow. She must really have pushed ALL your buttons for you to have used that word. You hate that word!" I'll leave it up to you to guess what that word was.

Anita actually said that! that kind of destroys her goals of 'equal' in all fronts and smacks of picking the sterotypes that suit. I just don't get it, her battle aginst sterotypes...... hammered by use of stereotypes. and false ones at that! whilst I agree with scientific evidence that suggests that on average (and I have to stress 'on average') men may be more spacially aware than women, the fact is it's pretty balanced. Some girls are very practical (like the kind of lass who works out doors with Chainsaws Tami!) and some blokes I know couldn't reverse park a car if you paid them! that's what annoys me with the whole feminism attacking gaming thing, because it offends their sensibilities (some of course I shouldn't generalise) they feel that it should be removed or drastically changed. I can't stand watching a skinny little ponce like Justin Beiber bouncing around on my TV screen.... so I don't watch him. I certainly wont petition to have him removed..... maybe.

and yet another blog about this woman. I need to see what she's all about now.