+Jund Arbiter  Okay... so your opinion is perfectly in line with that of this Time magazine's opinion piece writer's opinion penned in this opinion piece. Opinions can change for the open minded given a solidly persuasive argument right? I'm asking that You read this with such an open mind. Agree? Yes? No? Maybe? Let me clarify a few things this Time magazine Opinion Piece writer blatantly misunderstands and misrepresents. First of all... proponents of the term "rape culture" do not shift blame toward "all men" nor do they shift blame away from rapists... by any means. It may feel to a man as though all men are being blamed... but the truth is only men who are not allies of feminists are blamed by the proponents of the term "rape culture". The term "Rape culture" holds accountable people and systems of culture who/that enable, support, celebrate, promote, defend, excuse or otherwise feed rape........ This can even include people who cover up/lie for rapists to protect them. So it's not like we're just talking about movie starts pretending to rape each other, although that is included in rape culture. I can feel you already racking your brain for reasons why what I'm saying is bullshit and invalid even though I'm not even close to making my point yet: The term "Rape culture" is not restricted to media representation and songs with obviously rapey lyrics that celebrate permisionless sex/questionable consent as part of the normative sexual process. It also includes things that have a very real obvious impact like court rulings (only 3% of accused rapists are actually ever sentenced), it includes the act of rape itself, it includes women being attacked and threatened on the internet for speaking out about having been raped, it includes men being threatened with rape in jail by police officers, and it includes the permissionless genital mutilation of infant boys as a cultural/religious norm, it includes street HARASSMENT, and it includes people who defend street HARASMENT. Let's be clear... Harasment is a crime.... I've witnessed a woman being stalked along the sidewalk for minutes with three guys yelling at her about how big her ass was and she was dressed conservatively. I've seen men bark at colleagues I was walking with. (And it makes them feel really uncomfortable, some women choose to see this as a boundary violation akin to rape and they liken it to rape. energetically, it is... Agree to disagree, but please don't dismiss the whole of this.... There is a tendency for people to disagree with one section and then write it all off as bullshit... But Rape culture is real. Please see. Despite whatever parts you may disagree with that there is a huge body of happenings that any moral person will rightly see as a cultural system that defends, promotes, celebrates, excuses, make amusement out of or otherwise feeds rape) Here's some more! : http://everydayfeminism.com/2014/03/examples-of-rape-culture/ That is not an opinion piece.... There may be a few you reflexively disagree with... but there's 25... and many are quite tangible.... and that is in line with my opinon on rape culture.... I know you said Anita notwithstanding and I'm not saying this solely to parry your remark... but rape culture attacked her with rape threats and this behavior is somehow acceptable/normalized/blame is shifted toward her. That is rape culture in action. So i would not exclude her from any of it. Whether you agree with her videos or not, she was a victim of rape culture. Nobody wants to be threatened with murder and have their address tracked by online strangers.

+Bodhi Dharma Yes, they do.  I don't know if you have ever walked past a rape culture rally, but those people literally want men in classes and on leashes to keep them from raping people.  It's moronic.  So you obviously read the article, but then posted one that has a ton of examples of why fabricating rape culture will not help.  Some of the links go to other articles that literally say anyone with half a brain wouldn't allow this; ie only a tiny fraction of completely stupid people let these things happen.  It took a 4chan troll picture, which is called trolling for a reason, people in Canada being dumb, references to politicians who immediately lost respect without the need of rape culture, assuming rape jokes are somehow separate from other offensive and distasteful jokes about crime, women feeling less safe, which tons of people already explain that no, that will probably never change, and not because their is a rape culture but because sexual predators will always be a thing, It isn't that sexual violence doesn't need to be tackled (domestic as well) against men and women, it is that rape culture goes at it the wrong direction.  It's like they (rape culture proponents) think that just awareness that these things happen will reduce the crimes, which besides the inadvertent victim prevention (travel in groups at night, don't wear headphones while walking, etc) will not reduce crimes at all.  All they need to do is demand faster and more accurate investigations (WITHOUT shitting immediately on the accused, because that is not due process or justice) in conjunction with the actual incarceration of the convicted, which will require the war on drugs to end to actually have space in prison where rapist won't be murdered.

+b a a d e r t h a n m e i n h o f yes they are mutually contradictory but that does not discredit feminism as a whole.(IE most feminists won't agree with a TERF even though TERFs are technically feminists.)  when... well to be held credible,. a large majority of times. "Terrorism"... real|y that's kind of a large straw man

its strongly deserved tho, are you stupid? the level of brainwashing is unfathomable

We're never going to know, because she feels too threatened to respond!

+Sand Theb Oh gosh! 

+TJ AJ RJ Backslashinfourth v Yeah. That is true equality. Men face sexism as well as women.

You're correct, but Feminism was not always like that.

+Mi Ken You've hit on a point which nobody, to my knowledge, has made - that the very fact that around 50% of gamers are supposedly female shows that the industry it clearly catering to their needs. Now, I'd imagine the reason that nobody says much about this is because everyone, even Sarkeesian, knows the near 50% is a made up stat. Nonetheless, the point should be explicitly made as you have done in order to illicit some kind of explanation. And of the two explanations on offer - the stat is rubbish; or something to the effect that these women don't know what they themselves like - neither is a particularly strong position from which to argue.

+Mi Ken It only says 45% of gamers are female because they are counting iphone games that don't count as games like candy crush.

+subject my point exactly... And with for instance super mario isn't the plot the fact that he loves the princess? (If there really was a story plot) same with many save the girl games. It's not just saving some random woman.... She moans about this crap but Jesus, I hope she never plays leisure suite larry...

+subject the hitman one is the best because I did that mission on the day that I posted this comment and I got a ridiculously high score because I just passed the strippers without interacting.

+sasuke47001 Fair enough I suppose I shouldn't have assumed that you were in support of her just because you critiqued somebody that was also against her over a superficial, unrelated topic.

You must be a 15 year old feminist fucktard because your grammar is atrocious.

More importantly she states that players are meant to get a perverse pleasure in desecrating the bodies of exotic dancers in a strip club. Now, I have played Hitman Absolution and the strippers were only in a single part of a single level and they were considered bystanders. In Hitman Absolution you have a score based system during missions and incapacitation or killing of bystanders is punished with a huge score knockback, effecting your overall rank at the end of the level. What's more, a majority of the NPCs in the game are either male and female civilians or male bodyguards that are more likely to be the target of Agent 47's ire.  It's so misleading to the point that it is completely lying about the content of the game.  Another example she uses is the GTA franchise where she claims running over women awards you with money. What she fails to realise (probably because she's never played the game in her life) is that that will happen when you kill ANY NPC no matter what the gender. She also claims it rewards players for fucking hookers by allowing them to kill them and get their money back with no consequence. Which is again, a total fabrication because usually that shit gets the attention of the police who will not stop chasing you until you're a bullet-riddled corpse. THEN she uses Red Dead Redemption and claims that you get an achievement for tying a woman up and putting her on the train tracks. (While this is a true achievement you can get, this is a reference to old silent films and not a sexist thing) and she also claims that you can sleep with hookers and such which is completely false as John Marston says at the very start that he's a married man and has no intention of screwing prostitutes. Honestly the reason Anita is getting so much hate by gamers is by her clear ignorance of their subject matter. Considering she got $150+K for the project, THAT is unacceptable. 

And all those feminists what support her are sexist too. They only support her because A. she's a woman, who B. says feminist things. They completely ignore the fact that she's a horrible cunt who's a liar, conwoman, plagiarist, idiot and coward, because.... see points A and B.

uhh, Nasus, renekton, sivir, azir and casseiopeia all just got a really good new lore

She would ignore that jinx is popular and whine about the female characters that are more sexualized. Because she's an idiot who will twist everything in favour of her poorly grounded arguments.

And you know whats fun? His comment is completly right and he gets 4 Thumbs up. Anita gets 150k over Kickstarter and keeps talking garbage.

Lel, purple.

''anything not agreeing with them is automatically hate speech or a threat.'' -Alexander Cordell Oh shit. just like Muslims!

+Eks Zamora actually id say thats more like jews muslims generally get all militant and disgruntled

+ThirdEyeDesignz I fail to see how biologically portraying women properly in video games is inequality, in fact sometimes we don't even do that with games like Bayonetta (which Anita hates) or tomb raider.

Anita Sarkeesian is a manipulative asshole who twists and skews the truth to fit her ideals. Her "Evidence" for sexism in video games fits into one of 8 categories: 1. Game scenes taken out of context. Example: That Scene From Time Splitters 2 That Was a Parody of Old Westerns. 2. Not giving the backstory of that scene. Example: Bayonetta's Hair Attack. 3. Talking about optional choices as if you are forced to utilize them. Example: Killing the Hookers in Hitman. 4. Giving examples of games specifically tailored toward men and making them out to be more frequent than they actually are. Example: Duke Nukem. 5. Not considering ideas, Strategies and Reasoning behind plots and characters. Example: Hero's Journey, Target Audience. 6. Using plots from very old games as evidence. Example: Super Mario World, Pacman 7. Not considering that female characters have great power in areas not dominated by the same areas as the protagonist. Example: Princess Zelda, While Lacking Link's Combat Prowess or Ganon's Raw Power, is Implied To Be The Wisest of The Three and Has Great Power Along With Control of the Triforce. 8. She never mentions games that DO favor females. Example: Tomb Raider.

myself* srry

+Filthy Yrneh *sorry

Really...I should watch it then. I got the pic from google.

I believe I should bring to light the concept of a Target Audience, which is pretty much a good explanation for any of the legit tropes she actually mentions. (Most aren't legit tropes as much as skewed and twisted versions of the truth, you see) Well, a Target Audience is an economic strategy used to maximize profits. Essentially, the idea of a target audience is to pander to the interests of the majority of the product's audience, which in turn will create more of a buzz around the product. This strategy is seen a lot in media. And what is the target audience of games? Well, the target audience is almost always the majority, and the majority of gamers are men. And so, games cater to men, the majority, by making strong, relatable male characters the protagonists and pretty female characters. This is not due to sexism, it's due to strategies of maximizing success in marketing. Also, understand that this is a two-sided coin. When I was younger, I would be forced to watch the (crappy) female shows such as Pretty Little Liars and Vampire Diaries. Well, in those shows, male characters would not be fully dressed much more often than female characters. Additionally, shower scenes involving men were also much more frequent and much more revealing than shower scenes featuring female characters. This is because the Target Audience is females, who like seeing scantily clad men. And, understand this concept is not exclusive to gender. For example, in the Walking Dead TV Show they kill off characters like no tomorrow. The characters that aren't killed off are majority favorites, such as Rick and Daryl, while the characters nobody really cares about, such as T-Dog and Andrea, are killed off. And, anyway, video games are pandering more and more to female audiences. Female characters in games are playing more and more dominant roles. Now in days, the concept of a female protagonist wouldn't really be that surprising. But, I think I'm giving a bit too much credit to claims made by Anita Sarkeesian. Most of them are bullshit.

+Daniel Bier "white boy who owns a mcbook". That's clearly racism. Deal with it. 

+venuecam I know huh I love it "The fucking Ambassador award"? Where did that come from? someone probably invented it so the chick could pad her man hating non-video game playing resume. 

that's not exactly true... You know feminism actually started as a word to define those who fought for females to be EQUAL to males... Now latelly this... "harcore feminists" have appeared. And I don't even know WTF do they think... Here in spain we in fact call them "hembristas" and the "normal feminists" are called "feministas" so in fact I am a feminist myself. But I think Sarkeesian is not only a MORON, but actually EVIL, because she's getting money out of that. I played most of the games she shows to be so bad and I LOVED EVERY MINUTE OF IT. Seriously, not all feminists are that... I don't even know how that should be called but sure as hell not feminists...

I agree with you there, they completely ignore the other factors in the argument, including that sexism isn't one sided.

When TJ is being serious you see the very intelligent and caring man when he is just being a funny dick that is what you see too.

+Lucian Cote I was being sarcastic, I know that the patriarchy is bollocks. But thank you for your relatively concise argument.