I never watched any of those videos but because the people going after her were so abhorrent I found myself siding with her by default.

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.

“our space”

Rarely have such volumes been spoken by a mere two words.

Most of the alleged “inaccuracies” I’ve seen people complain about are just nitpicky bullshit that misses the point of what she’s talking about. Stuff like, “Sure, you have to save Elizabeth, but she gets you ammo so it totally doesn’t count!” Maybe there were serious inaccuracies that legitimately compromised what…

“Does doubling down count as growth?”

I imagine/speculate those types of people are the same folks who can’t function in public because they are toxic, and don’t like being told their idealogy is bad, and they’re lashing out because their idealogy is being challenged in what was once their safe space

Right? Like, you were 13-25 then. Now you’re 30+ and you... haven’t had any sort of growth or change of opinions in that time? Yikes.

“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.”

The part of me that loves trolling chuds wants to see her play Abby in The Last of Us season 2.

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

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’m not criticizing her. I’m criticizing the people who made her enemy #1.

“There sure are a lot of games that feature damsels in distress...”

“KILL HER!!!”

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.

It really says a lot about the world we’re living in that a woman doing a basic, surface-level feminist reading of video games became such a lightning rod. I haven’t engaged with everything she’s done, but I watched a few of the Tropes v. Women in Video Games videos and it was very mild and friendly. The way people…

Well yeah, but it’s Regan-era, not Reagan.  It’s New York during that brief era in the early 70s when little girls crawled around on the ceiling and projectile shot soup out of their mouths at all the street priests and thugs.

Yeah by the 80's leaded gasoline was mostly phased out

The crack epidemic was in full swing in the 80s and areas like the south bronx were hit hard by it. Crime was still a very real and massive problem. Now, maybe the problem had shifted away from more ‘affluent’ areas of the city when it started to get more coverage in media but for the poorer, browner and blacker areas…