I don’t think we talk enough about what happened with Anita Sarkeesian tbh.
Like this woman went around making the most bland but also usually correct partially because of how bland it was criticism of video games of all time. She politely and calmly stood in front of the camera and said “I like this video game but it treats it’s women as eye candy” and “this is an example of the damsel in distress trope” and everyone lost their fucking minds. She would get clipped out of context, every time she wore lipstick some incel would crawl out of the woodwork to say “isn’t it interesting how you dress sexy and then say videogame characters can’t dress sexy”
Like how did she become the boogie man? She prefaced every fuckin video with “it’s good to enjoy things while also being critical of their more pernicious aspects.” I feel like if we had just listened to even that part of what she was saying and literally nothing else the internet discourse would be better off. instead now if you care about social justice you have to think Steven Universe is irredeemable media and if you don’t you have to tear anyone who ever says anything less than favorable about whatever it is you’ve decided to publically like to shreds even if they have a point. It all comes back to how the gamergate chuds treated this one female game critic. This is the origin story.
