mue 26 wrote:
Whether you like her or not, and I certainly don't agree with every single thing she has said, Anita Sarkeesian has got people talking seriously about the issue of sexism related to gaming, and she deserves credit for that.
I'm not mad at Anita, I think she saw an opportunity to make money and went with it (she even says she didn't like videogames). I think her videos are intellectually dishonest, lots of cherrypicking, missinformation, confirmation bias, pretty much a browsing of tvtropes, etc. That she is the one "holding the flag" just means that videogame "cultural analysis" suck (or that people prefer the radical panflet to sell more).
I think she deserves credit, it's true that now people "care more", some to the point that seem to want games to be the start of a joke (so a jew, a gay, a black man, a transvestite... walk into a bar). But her views are very sex negative, and the way she frames things pretty much means you can't have anything wrong happening to women in videogames, and doesn't care/know about writing/game design. Seems like she wants safe politically correct games, and that's not the way of improvement. Most of the "bad examples" are just the bad writing that games have/had and it's just a wrapper for gameplay and are apendixes to the real content. I agree that games should care more about narrative, but I think Anita's framework is culturally destructive (specially for a young medium like videogames).
With her mindset we couldn't have pretty much anything interesting (take for example catcher in the rye, nietszche works, tolstoi's, etc.), seems like the not to be challenged is making us little whinning kids, so I don't like her approach to making "safe" videogames, I don't think it's the way to evolution of the medium.
Also, she's the one that can't handle criticism, comment sections closed, disabled ratings, every critic you can have is "violence against women", talk about censorship.
Again I'm not mad about her, she's just doing her job (I think is lazy as fuck, and dishonest), I just don't like this approach of treating everybody like idiots that can't handle hearing anything they don't like and masquerading it as "equality" (equality of dumbness seems, always leveling down instead of up).