1) Being from the Midwest is not a race. 2) Drew is from the Midwest. 3) How insecure of your beliefs and likes do you have to be to go to bat for an entire region of the country?

My father was a meteorite. Your comet is hurtful and offensive.

People who call fast food restaurants to complain are just the worst. Listen, everyone, life's a gamble — sometimes you get the whopper and sometimes you get a chicken sandwich. Fucking move on.

Except that the "lying and misrepresenting facts" that people usually try to bring up with her are...not anything of the sort. They're people objecting to specific examples she uses because they don't understand (or choose to ignore) the context in which she is using them.

Except there's absolutely no way to tell legitimate threats from fake ones. And since people like the one above are going out of their way to publicly spread her personal information, anyone else could make use of that without making a public threat. It's very easy for you to say it isn't real when you don't have to…

The problem here is that you are thinking she is a data-driven scientist, but people in the humanities don't make arguments that way. They write essays. Her videos are effectively essays read aloud. In an essay, you don't bring up counter-examples, except to debunk them. Any high school teacher or college…

Threats are the new form of saying "I disagree with what you're saying"

I'm sorry my tone is not to your liking.

And legions of people shrugging their shoulders and saying "that's just how the internet is" and "it has nothing to do with being a woman". Which are both bullshit.

Dismissal is one thing. Death threats are just proving her point.

"If she is getting nothing but death threats and dismissal, then she is not being successful."

You don't have a problem with Anita but with the discussion in general and the realization that you might be wrong.

We're done having the discussion about whether sexism exists in gaming or not. It does. The discussion we're having is what to do about it. If you don't want to participate, don't.

Dude, are you kidding me? "Martin Luther King got a lot of death threats, and ended up getting assassinated. Must mean he was doing bad work". Do you see the absurdity of that sentiment?

Confirmation bias certainly is a huge problem, but in this case it's not really an issue. In many areas of scholarly analysis that's just how you do it. If you have a problem with the concept of writing a thesis and then supporting it with data, your problem isn't with her but with the entire idea of an essay and…

I honestly don't understand why people go on so much about her kickstarter. She asked for money for a specific reason. She did so honestly, so people gave money knowing what it would be used for. Then she used it for that reason. It was one thing when the whole thing was delayed and people could claim it was a…

In her type of scholarly analysis, it is perfectly appropriate to just look at the evidence that supports your thesis. For one thing, she's not saying that 100% of video games are sexist, so she doesn't need to look at games that aren't sexist. She's just arguing that there is widespread sexism in this medium. To…

The vast majority of what happens after these videos isn't scrutiny - it's outright dismissal and hostility. Even the people that aren't threatening to kill her usually just say "Nope, bayonetta" and that's it.

She didn't get "paid" $160k, and she isn't a journalist. People donated to support her project. She proposed a series of videos and is creating what she proposed. It's not her fault she got extra money, and she isn't obligated to change the scope of the project just because she got more (though as I recall, she is…

Journalists get paid all the time? Even people who write opinion pieces - shocking I know.