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Anita Sarkeesian is shutting down Feminist Frequency after 15 years

www.polygon.com Anita Sarkeesian is shutting down Feminist Frequency after 15 years

‘We were talking about representation very early on in a mainstream way’

Anita Sarkeesian is shutting down Feminist Frequency after 15 years

Pour one out for a real one

It's probably a good thing she's retiring on her own terms tho

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Anita Sarkeesian is shutting down Feminist Frequency after 15 years
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  • rat-salute for all the freeze-gamer 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 freeze-gamer on reddit-logo 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.)"

      • But we’re not talking about some major lifestyle change, playing some video games where the lead character is a woman whose personality doesn’t revolve around her being spankbank material isn’t a huge ask.

  • I searched her name on twitter and holy shit the takes are insane

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