Surprised there is no mention of Aerosmith’s Crazy which featured both Liv Tyler and Alicia Silverstone. If Graham Chapman is an A-lister those two certainly are as well. 

Liv Tyler and Alicia Silverstone in Aerosmith’s “Crazy”, and Silverstone was in at least two other Aerosmith videos.

Oh please, spare me with this horseshit. Hitman Absolution is a game that absolutely despises women. It opens with a mission where you murder your handler Diana in the shower as she sensuously cleans herself. It has sexy murder nuns who you spend an entire mission killing in their fuck-me boots. Every woman in the…

And really, what impact did she actually have anyway? Did skimpy outfits, bouncing breasts and distressed damsels vanish from video games? Why did people react like this woman single-handedly ushered some age of puritanical fascism in media?

Yeah. When I first watched her videos, I agreed with some of what she said, and didn’t fully agree with other things, but overall found them pretty interesting, and thought she brought in a voice that was previously largely missing in the games media. It didn’t even occur to me that what she said could even be mildly…

Which is in the video, for everyone to see. It was a problem of editing more than anything. If she said that and didn’t show that, that would be worse, right? She’s openly showing that aspect of the game and saying “and I’m not talking about just that” because there can be incentives beyond your level score. If it…

“I watched a few of the Tropes v. Women in Video Games videos and it was very mild and friendly. The way people responded, you’d think she was a politician passing a law to ban breast jiggle physics and anime body pillows.”

I remember when, for a long time, video game sites and social media outlets were the only way to know what was going on with Gamergate. Seeing what she went through was horrifying and the terrifying. The amount of harassment, threats and doxxing she was constantly bombarded with... It was actually shocking to see how…

The backlash wasn’t really because of what she was saying; it was because she was saying anything at all.

She opened every Tropes vs. Women video with the same line:

Most of the manosphere reactionaries never watched a single Feminist Frequency video. They reacted to the lies YouTube dudebros told them.

idk 15 years is a great run, I’d consider this pretty successful

I would frame it more as just that this work is a bit exhausting in general (even if, as we’ve noted, this work was pretty much feminism 101 work) than her being bullied out of it; I don’t want to diminish the harassment, as it was awful, but I think she’s also right in that it’s okay for her to say this particular…

My heart goes out to all The Gamers(tm) that are still trapped in their own personal 9/11s that her videos placed them in for the last 15 years.

The ideas where *so incredibly* basic, 100 course level, surface-skimming concepts that the fact The Gamers(tm) reacted the way they did still dumbfounds me when I think about it. I cannot think of a single thought experiment more harmless than any concept she discussed.

Yeah I’ve never gotten why someone would order food from some random restaurant they’ve never heard of without looking into it. I don’t remember the last time I ate at/ordered from a restaurant without Googling or Yelping it. Probably at least a decade.

Ehhhh... I dunno about that. She definitely put more focus on him than he put on her but she’s clearly busy in her residency. The fact that her story is so wrapped up in Carmy is only a function of the show’s focus on the restaurant. I wouldn’t say she has no hopes or dreams of her own. Between the performance and…

She didn’t strike me as a manic pixie dream girl. My first thought when she was introduces was that she inherited what I think of as the “Thankless Michelle Monaghan Role” where she, like so many before her, isn’t given any character notes to play besides “nice.” It wasn’t the only role MM got to play, she just got…

What part of her character was “Manic”?  She didn’t do anything to get in his way at all. It’s all his fault that he didn’t call the walk in door repair guy... what’s crazy is that his whole team left him in there instead of actually thinking on how to open the door for a fucking second. I’ve been to friends and…

“Put yourself in her shoes: your high school crush is back in town, and he’s a hot chef. You give him your best banter, but he still holds you at a distance. Wouldn’t you agree to drive him to Winnetka if it meant you had a chance?”