Ya know, I don't see the cuteness or whatever in Black Dahlia anything. I've read the book "Severed" and have seen what was done to her. It's not cool. It's an unsolved murder case, a horrific murder case. There are so many other things to be. 100 years from now will it be okay to be Hannah Graham? Or Kitty Genovese?

At least we are spared that "where am I" facial expression.

The "Is she a gamer or not?" thing is...pretty much a pointless discussion, as far as I'm concerned, and is something she has addressed multiple times. Regardless, either her criticism is valid or it isn't; trying to dismiss her because she's "not a gamer" (or even because you believe she lied about it) is a textbook…

It's not about glorification, exactly. And I understand the argument about villains being bad guys, and all that. But...

Well, when you see writers using the victimization of helpless women (often sexually, but sometimes through non-sexual violence) over and over and over again as a shortcut to signify villainy, it…

thunderf00t is an "atheist"/anti-feminist critic on Youtube who has produced some of the most famous "rebuttals" to her work. That's why I bring him up.

Do you have any examples of her confusion between a "general" trope and a gender-specific one? Regardless, I don't think it actually really matters, particularly if…

If her arguments are shallow and dishonest, it should be trivially easy to provide an intellectually rigorous, honest rebuttal of them. I have yet to see anyone actually do that.

I've seen some critiques take (nuanced) issue with some of her points, and that's good! That's how this sort of discussion is supposed to…

Eh...you can certainly make an argument to that effect, but there's also an argument to be made for taking portrayals on their own terms, divorced from the larger context.

For instance: the episode of Family Guy, "Quagmire's Dad", was explicitly intended by Seth MacFarlane to be a positive portrayal of trans people. He…

But that's the thing: the presence of all that other stuff doesn't somehow negate the bits she talks about. The question isn't "Is there other stuff in the game?", because there ALWAYS is. There's always going to be some justification, some reason why X is there in the game.

When looking at larger trends, though, it…

She had been called out so many times for cherry picking, lying and twisting facts that to even consider her a member of academia is funny.

I have a some issues with her work, but the angry mob that follows her around really isn't doing the community any favors.

The demonization by the specter of mud suddenly released from the Internet sling made of slander rubber is enough to knock me to the ground of sadness and into the puddle of indignation from which I plan to rise like a Phoenix of righteousness knocking over my detractors with my diamond talons of truth.

Can't say I blame her. Look how that turned out for Mary.

OH MY GOD. This guy is irritating me so much.

Ryan is that you

I don't interpret it as smugness. I'm no fan of Sarkeesian's presentation style, but in this instance, I believe that Tweet should be read as, "Seriously, the fuck. You're not going to shut me up, so keep trying."

In that—even if I disagree with her methods (though I do agree with her message, as she's been bang-on…

thirsty male ally creeps

Kat, I'm a fan of you, and I will forever love you for your write-up on Gunma, so please understand that I say this from a place of love:

Taking responsibility for and recognizing the reason for failures, providing refunds for those who request them, delivering on backer rewards... this sounds like the right way for a kickstarter project to die, as sad as it may be for those involved. Bravo.

Apparently, Jedis do.