Well, according to the losers who think she deserves this.. that is a fake threat. You can tell it's not credible because even though it has her address and graphic descriptions of what this person wants to do - it's from a burner twitter account. So that means it's fake! Cause no one would make an account to that.

The thing that gets me is that whenever an article about this gets posted (on most websites anyway), SO MANY of the comments are like:

...you think no one deserves to live in a world where they're not objectified 24/7? And you're saying this as someone who lives in a world where SWM aren't objectified?

We need to not reply to nonsense like this. It's the only way the gray system will work. If a bunch of us jam in here and start arguing with the brick wall posing as a human commentor, the nonsense bubbles up to the top as a prioritized discussion, and the gray troll becomes visible to all.

What really blows me away about the Anita Sarkeesian hate, which I see absolutely everywhere video game loving people congregate and it never fails to embarrass and depress the shit out of me, is how it's proving everything she says absolutely right. You couldn't ask for a clearer example of the exact kind of thing…

I think it's less about telling artists what to create than it is criticizing the created product and citing sources to back up her claims. That said, a reasonable discussion is incredibly useful in these situations.

The unfortunate thing is that Kotaku's writers have been actually doing a pretty solid job in trying to highlight these issues and discuss them rationally. There are some in the commenting community who appreciate that, but plenty that don't.

Citation?

go watch the damn video because you clearly didn't. Or at least didn't listen carefully. She argues, and I agree, that violence against women is often depicted in a very different way than violence against male characters and she gives countless examples to support said argument!

You know, it's true that Anita does selectively pick and choose segments from games which show instances of sexism. To an extent, this is necessary, since she can't show you the entirety of every game she mentions, but you could argue that there is some cherrypicking involved.

Blaming women for sexism is like blaming oxygen for suffocation. Women should be allowed to dress however they please and act however they please without feeling threatened by men.

You do not "raise a good point" you repeat the tired trope; that if women don't want to be harassed they should't expose their skin because…

Not the same. It's like the argument for a White Entertainment Television, or "if they can say the N-word, why can't I?" Men are predominantly in positions of power, so it's not a 1-to-1 equation when saying "oh there's a man beating a man" and "there's a man beating a woman". As the Hitman examples show, there's…

I agree with Anita Sarkeesian's viewpoints and not once have I felt like she wanted me to feel guilty about being born male. I view Anita Sarkeesian as having gotten off her ass and done something good. If you don't think it's great, that's fine, but I fail to imagine how it's not on the positive side of the spectrum.

As if these are mutually exclusive options, and as if all women have stupidly opted for the first without ever attempting or considering the second.

You know, you could try... WATCHING THE VIDEOS.

I think the point is that while there is violence against both sexes, women are far more likely to be shown in a submissive situation and used as a narrative device ie. they are not running toward you guns blazing, or developing the story - just there to make you feel like that dude needs to get got for harming a lady

And some examples of this are...where? I don't recall the Chip'n'dales in the GTA strip clubs. I sure as hell don't remember a bathing-suit dlc for Nathan Drake? Where's Master Chief's skin body suit alt?

Women don't make games? That's news to all the women developers out there, like the ones mentioned in this article. Maybe we can do both, like what we're currently doing, and the ones who are good at making games can make games and the ones who are good at media criticism can do the critical analysis? Yes, I'm certain…

A lot of people have problems with violence against men in video games. Not specifically, because violence specifically targeted at women is a very different thing than violence against men, but people do have a problem with violence in video games. It's talked about all the time. They just don't specifically call…