Anita Sarkeesian is shutting down Feminist Frequency after 15 years
Anita Sarkeesian is shutting down Feminist Frequency after 15 years
‘We were talking about representation very early on in a mainstream way’
Pour one out for a real one
It's probably a good thing she's retiring on her own terms tho
for all the 
rage she has generated over the years.Gamergate was almost 10 years ago and today you learned Depression Quest was actually a free game the whole time.
I remember some
on 
yelled at me that I needed to see what these radical feminists like Anita Sarkeesian were saying, that it was male-hating and threatening vidya. I had vaguely heard of her at that point but hadn’t seen any of her stuff so I looked up a video of hers on YouTube. Very quickly I was like “this is what the gamergaters are getting worked up over? This is pretty vanilla by feminists standards, even a bit boilerplate.”radical positions like "harassing women is bad"
It's pure do-gooder derogation.
Materially, we have set up a system where being right is what gets you punished, and people will hate you for doing something they agree with deep down. Because of the implications it makes about them. In the words of David Graeber, who calls the phenomenon 'Moral Envy', they're saying "How dare you act as if you are morally superior to me (although I do agree that your actions are morally superior to my own.)"
I can’t believe you can accurately trace the alt right directly back to people mad at her videos about games.
What a stupid timeline.
