"Everyone does it, so why shouldn't I?"

They were private pictures taken for these people's private usage, they weren't shared on the internet, someone hacked and stole them. Who the heck are you to tell others how they should or shouldn't enjoy their naked bodies???

And the clothes!

Um...these are two completely different things...? Do you even understand what people are upset about when it comes to this cover?! Tip: google "male gaze in comic books", just to start you off. THEN we can talk again, honey.

"Harassment against anyone is awful" is a sentence that needs to stand by itself. If you qualify it with a "but", you are saying the victim deserved the harassment. Again, words mean something, and yes, I agree, context is everything.

If you imply that Anita isn't innocent then you are saying she, at least in part, deserves to be harassed. See how that works? Words, they mean something! Also, you keep bringing up Zoe, but I am talking about Anita. What exactly is it that Anita has done that makes her somehow guilty of deserving rape threats?

They are afraid of losing their privilege. And their boners.

So what exactly, I am curious to know, has Anita done to "deserve" death and rape threats by someone who knows where she lives, hmmm?

My bingo card is already full since I read that Kotaku article on the Anita Saarkesian video!

It is an achievement FOR YOU, but not for someone who doesn't find being fit and active enjoyable or important. That's my point. For gamer X, finally slaying that boss at the end of the dungeon is an achievement, but getting a ball in a hoop isn't.

The comments on the Kotaku article made me curl up in a ball of misery and eat a whole bucket of ice cream. So many assholes on there mansplaining and dismissing the problem of female (mis)representation in video games, just awful.

It still isn't what you called an "achievement" though. It just makes you feel good, which is fine. Dude, a hobby is a hobby. Some people collect stamps, which I personally don't get at all, but if it makes the person happy, who am I to pretend my hobbies are better than theirs? It's all just a giant waste of time in…

Playing basketball is just as unproductive as playing video games. Neither of those activities produce anything other than fun and relaxation for the people involved.

Actually it is pretty standard in academia to have a hypothesis (in this case, "video games are sexist") and work towards proving it.

haha, lol, you don't seem to be able to understand correlations. Also, saying "haha, lol" makes you sound like a 12-year-old. An uncool one, at that.

Firstly, no one is saying violence against men isn't a problem. Secondly, the point Anita is making is that violence against women is almost always coupled with sexual titillation, e.g. women in sexy outfits being killed and then draped somewhere with their boobs showing, or prostitutes in sexy lingerie being beaten…

You are right, we should stop criticising anything ever. Let's never criticise the government again, unless we ourselves are part of the government! I mean, really, if we want political change we should damn well become elected ourselves or just stfu!

Using the original poster's amazing logic here: "If you are so concerned about the way video games portray violence against men then how about you make your own video series about it instead of criticising Anita's, hmmmmm?"

Ha, that's what I was thinking when I read the article: "If Beyonce did this we would celebrate her 'owning her sexuality' or some horses hit like that."

I think she meant "of ALL the times I, Millenial person likely under 30, have watched the VMAs!"