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Anti-Heterosexual #Feminism

Posted on | October 17, 2014 | 130 Comments

My #GamerGate coverage had only just begun when @streever — who obviously doesn’t know me from Adam’s housecat — made the mistake of disputing my authority to describe feminism as “anti-male and anti-heterosexual.” This is not necessarily @streever‘s fault.

The whole point of my “Sex Trouble” series about radical feminism’s war on human nature is that the vast majority of people, including many otherwise normal women who naively call themselves “feminists,” don’t know the truth about feminist theory — its esoteric doctrine, as opposed to its exoteric discourse. Your typical ordinary “feminist” is merely a liberal whose ideological commitment is no more profound than this: “Vote Democrat — because vagina!”

Understand what I mean when I say feminism is a journey to lesbianism: There are lifelong lesbians who aren’t feminists for the simple reason that they don’t need a theory to justify themselves and they don’t enjoy politically correct sex. Non-feminist lesbians include not a few stone butch dykes who refuse to listen to post-modern crypto-Marxist lectures about why their preference for masculine wardrobe, penetration and domination is the “wrong” way to be lesbian. Furthermore, there are many lesbians who just don’t hate men enough to be feminist. In fact, a lot of ladies who are “playing for the other team” (to use the famous Seinfeld phrase) have an ironic empathy for the problems of heterosexual men, as lesbians also have to deal with the typical woes of trying to get along with women. (Some ex-lesbians are “ex-” for this very reason: They can’t cope with the hormonal drama.) Anyone who looks at exit-poll data must realize there are more Republican lesbians than the mainstream media is willing to admit; if you’re pro-capitalism and pro-America, it’s kind of hard hard to be a feminist.

So, there are non-feminist lesbians and there are “heterosexual feminists,” but the latter category is rather timidly defensive within the field of Women’s Studies, where “raging lesbian feminists” prevail and gender theory necessitates problematizing heterosexuality. It is certainly no accident that the most widely assigned anthology of feminist literature — Feminist Frontiers, a common textbook for Introduction to Women’s Studies classes at American universities — is edited by three lesbians. The best and most recent research indicates that heterosexual women outnumber lesbian/bisexual women by a ratio greater than 40-to-1 (97.7 percent to 2.3 percent), but if you were to attend next month’s annual meeting of the National Women’s Studies Association, you would find the NWSA Lesbian Caucus accounts for far more than 2.3% of the faculty and graduate students in attendance, and nobody in the NWSA would dare challenge the Lesbian Caucus directly. The heterosexuals in Women’s Studies “know their place,” so to speak, and their metaphorical place is in the back of the feminist bus.

“If you consider sexual desire and romantic love between men and women to be natural and healthy, you are not a feminist. . . . There is nothing natural about sex, according to feminist ideology, no biological urge that causes women to be attracted to men.”
Robert Stacy McCain, April 10, 2014

Beyond this demonstrable phenomenon of the extraordinary lesbian influence on radical feminism as it is taught on our university campuses, however, beyond all the quotes I could produce to demonstrate that phenomenon, there is the simple truth: Feminist theory is incompatible with (and hostile to) the normal woman’s life of men, marriage and motherhood. A woman might be a heterosexual feminist, but she can never be a happy heterosexual feminist, because feminism’s core beliefs are that (a) all women’s problems are consequences of male oppression, (b) this oppression (patriarchy) is systemic and pervasive, (c) all women suffer from patriarchal oppression and all men benefit from it, (d) the nuclear family is the basic institutional unit of patriarchy, (e) both normal gender (i.e., sex roles, and our concepts of masculinity and femininity) and normal sexuality are “social constructs” produced to serve the interests and fit the prejudices of male-dominated patriarchal society, and (f) women cannot be equal until they destroy this system. Feminists must, as their slogan says, “Smash Patriarchy.”

“Heterosexual intercourse is the pure, formalized expression of contempt for women’s bodies.”
Andrea Dworkin, 1989

“Female heterosexuality is not a biological drive or an individual woman’s erotic attraction . . . Female heterosexuality is a set of social institutions and practices.”
Marilyn Frye, 1992

“Male sexual violence against women and ‘normal’ heterosexual intercourse are essential to patriarchy because they establish the dominance of the penis over the vagina, and thus the power relations between the sexes.”
Dee Graham, 1994

“Male supremacy is centered on the act of sexual intercourse, justified by heterosexual practice.”
Sheila Jeffreys, 2005

Anyone with two eyes and common sense can see this, and every honest feminist must admit it. But honest feminists are rather rare, and I’m always grateful to encounter the forthright radical lesbian who speaks the blunt truth about the feminist agenda. Confronted with what feminism actually means, the normal woman’s reaction is no different than the normal man’s reaction: They’re horrified by the anti-human totalitarian hatred implicit in this doctrine.

The naive liberal who calls herself a “feminist” in 2014 is much like the naive liberals who, in the 1930s and ’40s, joined Communist front groups because they believed the dishonest Popular Front rhetoric of “peace,” “justice” and “civil rights.” Ronald Reagan, who admitted that he himself had been deceived during his days as a bleeding-heart liberal, became the history’s most famous foe of Communism. Reagan liked to joke that the difference between a Communist and an anti-Communist is that the Communist is someone who reads Marx and Lenin, while the anti-Communist is someone who understands Marx and Lenin.

So it is with feminism now, and members of the videogaming community have rather accidentally been given an opportunity to understand feminism. Thanks, “Social Justice Warriors”!

Readers may ask, “What does #GamerGate have to do with #feminism as a journey to lesbianism?” Maybe not much. Or maybe everything.

Videogames are a male-dominated phenomenon, which is a bad thing, as far as I’m concerned. I lost interest in videogames more than 30 years ago simply because feeding quarters into a Pac Man machine was a waste of time and money. Our family has a little Pac Man console that we packed away the last time we moved and I haven’t unpacked it yet, but I occasionally used to plug in Pac Man and spend an hour or two racking up a high score, then toss it aside and dare the kids to top my high score. But I quit videogames before FPRP (First-Person Role-Playing) games became the norm, and so I never developed an appetite for “Mortal Kombat,” “Grand Theft Auto” or “Call of Duty.” My teenage son wastes hours playing “League of Legends,” much to my dismay. Time spent playing games is time that could be better spent on something useful and productive, and it is disheartening to see bright young people develop a habit of (or rather, an addiction to) time-wasting.

In her book Men on Strike, Dr. Helen Smith criticizes the stereotype of male gamers as stunted, puerile losers. However, (a) it’s hard to see how playing “Madden” all day is compatible with a fully functional adult life, and (b) couldn’t those endless hours of gaming be better spent on some income-generating activity, or at least something with real-life utility? But having spent my own adolescence in a haze of sex, drugs and rock-and-roll, maybe I shouldn’t be so harshly judgmental of the arguably less harmful recreations available via XBox and Playstation.

Yet if teenage boys (and adult men) would rather spend time playing “World of Warcraft” than working, educating themselves, or pursuing the companionship of females, why? Isn’t it a fact — as I believe Dr. Smith would agree — that the workplace and schools have become hostile to men in many ways, and that relationships with women are less satisfying to men because of the anti-male attitudes feminism has encouraged women to adopt? If universities now treat normal male sexuality as a sort of hate crime waiting to happen, if a man can lose his job for even daring to flirt with a female co-worker, and if any potential girlfriend would bring to a romantic relationship a towering stack of resentments against males, what options are left to the young bachelor? Why bother? Instead he spends all weekend in a “Call of Duty” gaming marathon, an emotionally satisfying activity he perhaps interrupts only to (a) sleep, (b) order a pizza, and (c) jack off to some porn.

This is sad beyond words, but there is obviously a reason that videogames are a multibillion-dollar industry, just as there’s obviously a reason a vast amount of the Internet is nothing but porn.

Now, however, as a result of #GamerGate, this poor fellow discovers that one of his few remaining pleasures in life — the games that occupy such a large part of his leisure hours — is threatened by feminists whining about the need for “diversity” and “inclusion,” complaining about “objectification” and “sexualization” and of course, THE MALE GAZE!

You expected these dudes to meekly accept your feminist lectures?

Not just no — hell, no. When you back men into a corner and terrorize them with threats, don’t be surprised to learn that the patriarchy knows how to smash back.

Feminists have finally pushed their bullshit too far. I’m as surprised as anyone that #GamerGate has turned into what it is, but somehow a worldwide army of geeks and nerds has been mobilized to fight the feminist menace. Better late than never, guys.




 

 

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130 Responses to “Anti-Heterosexual #Feminism”

  1. Political Rift » Anti-Heterosexual #Feminism
    October 17th, 2014 @ 7:10 pm

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  2. Guest
    October 17th, 2014 @ 7:13 pm

    I literally laughed out loud when I saw that guy suggest you need to read feminist literature.

    😀

  3. ThomasD
    October 17th, 2014 @ 7:14 pm

    Welcome to the party pal…

    (Offered to no one in particular.)

    Stacy, in comparison to GamerGate – which is a sort of front line in this war – you have already been well behind enemy lines.

  4. robertstacymccain
    October 17th, 2014 @ 7:22 pm

    Yeah, I’ve been so deep into it for so long I’d be a Marxist lesbian already if it weren’t for (a) my having a penis and (b) people hitting the tip jar.

  5. Paola Kathuria
    October 17th, 2014 @ 7:23 pm

    I read it all. I think I lost a gazillion brain cells in doing so.

  6. jakee308
    October 17th, 2014 @ 7:34 pm

    Feminists are women who’ve taken being unattractive to men (or being unattracted to men) and turned that into a virtue. By blaming it all on men.

  7. pragmatist
    October 17th, 2014 @ 8:05 pm

    Yeah, about relationships with women – generally, women seem to love DRAMA. Men, not so much. Women now seem to have a short fuse, ready to go jihadi over everything. Taught to do so, I think. So lots of times it’s just not worth the trouble sorting out who’s who. Plus if the relationship goes bad we are screwed. The more committed the relationship, the worse the screwing.

  8. RS
    October 17th, 2014 @ 8:08 pm

    #Gamergate demonstrates as well as anything that Leftists/Progressives will stop at nothing to control everything. There can be no facet of one’s life, no matter how pedestrian, which is outside the realm of their interests. They know that if they allow anything to compete with their view of reality, ultimately their reality will collapse. Whether it’s Family, Marriage, Church, video games, Movies, whatever. It must controlled and exploited to maintain a death grip (pun intended) on society.

  9. Julie Pascal
    October 17th, 2014 @ 8:14 pm

    Gaming is definitely a big time waster. Every now and then I think… I maxed my crafting in tailoring, metalsmithing, alchemy and cooking… If I took that time and actually, like, SEWED things…

    *sigh*

    But I do like the MMORPGs, not WoW so much but others in the same genre. The people I play *with* are often middle aged, married, and play the game with their spouse. I knew people who played EQ2 from Iraq and were able to kill dragons and spend time with their wife and kids that way. I’ve had guild-mates who played because they were handicapped or ill (in one case terminally ill) and games allowed them the ability to socialize and be leaders and *do* things… like help other people.

    It’s a horrible waste of time but not much more-so than watching a few hours of TV every night or reading novels.

    So, my point is… while I don’t play FPS games (my kids do) I have played MMORPGs ever since such a thing even existed in the world. Also, I’m a girl. There have always been lots of girls who played. So… sexism? Character models have big boobs and bulging muscles and armor is often… unlikely. In all those years (and I *like* having a fantasy character build) I’ve only had someone try to start “chat sex” with me once. I’ve heard people say that female “toons” get help and freebees more than male “toons”, but I never noticed that it’s true. “Area chat” is often rude, sometimes funny, and frequently tedious, once in a while it’s political or religious but there is always push-back if someone is malicious in a racist or sexist way. Someone who couldn’t manage “area chat” probably can’t manage real life either… but even then, it can be turned off. The total number of jerks is actually quite low and they aren’t tolerated.

    They’re even less tolerated in team FPS type games.

    The SJC sorts and their supporters will claim that “no one is trying to take your game away” but they ARE trying to shame you for enjoying it… to say you’re a bad person for enjoying it. And they do make a big deal about the fact that the female character builds aren’t realistic. Neither are the male character builds. The armor is ridiculous, but instead of finding this amusing they find it offensive. And you know? Look… you can play a gnome or a dwarf or an asura or a rat or an otter-thing or a lizard or an ogre or a *cow* if you want to have an ugly character with no cleavage. Every MMORPG I’ve ever seen has the option. But I’d prefer to play the human or barbarian with the truly awesome rack.

    Being *dumpy* is what I’ve got Real Life for. So take your outrage and choke on it.

  10. RobinDTaxpayer
    October 17th, 2014 @ 8:26 pm

    If a man speaks in a forest, and there is no woman around to hear him, is he still wrong?

  11. Anti-Heterosexual #Feminism by The Other McCain | Living in Anglo-America
    October 17th, 2014 @ 9:59 pm
  12. RS
    October 17th, 2014 @ 10:01 pm

    The interchange between the two of you brought this scene from Annie Hall.

  13. RS
    October 17th, 2014 @ 10:02 pm

    . . . to mind.

    My syntax-fu is a little rusty this evening, it would appear.

  14. dicentra
    October 17th, 2014 @ 10:16 pm

    the Communist is someone who reads Marx and Lenin, while the anti-Communist is someone who understands Marx and Lenin.

    Sorry, Gipper: That ain’t so. The group of people who understand Marx & Lenin can be divided in two: those who dig what M&L were saying and those who find it despicable. That first group (reads but doesn’t understand) is mostly hipster poseurs who may have read M&L but mostly didn’t: they just enjoy revolutionary chic and the easy babes it attracts.

    Real Communists understand M&L just fine — they salivate at the prospect of smashing the system and becoming the new overlords. Anti-Communists oppose the system being smashed and despise tyranny in all its forms.

    The Gipper would have us believe that Communists are by definition fools when in fact many are sociopaths and malignant narcissists who operate on exactly the same frequency as Marx and Lenin and Stalin and Mao.

    Knaves, Mr. Reagan, not fools.

  15. Weedlord BonerHitler
    October 17th, 2014 @ 10:24 pm

    Hmm… I think you might be a bit over-generous in describing the #Gamergate losers as good ol’ mannish boys defending themselves from evil lesbianists. They seem to be mere bullies who are threatening to kill two women — Anita Sarkeesian and Zoe Quinn — because they dare to have careers, doing much the same as you do on this blog. They’re Columbine kids, little Adam Lanzas in the making, not Boy Scouts.

  16. Eric Ashley
    October 17th, 2014 @ 10:26 pm

    Steevish seems to be saying that if five black guys play ‘beat whitey’, its not racist because blacks don’t have systemic power. Its one of the garbage semantic arguements where the Left defines its offenders out of existence.

  17. Eric Ashley
    October 17th, 2014 @ 10:27 pm

    If they were, the wimmin would leave them alone.

  18. Daniel Freeman
    October 17th, 2014 @ 10:31 pm

    Are you always that gullible to threat narratives, or just when it earns you a “Good boy!” and a pat on the head from someone with a vagina? The only thing more pathetic than a PUA is a male feminist; they’re both beggars, but at least the PUA is begging for more than a belly rub.

  19. RS
    October 17th, 2014 @ 10:32 pm

    Oh look! Another dolt has escaped the home wearing nothing but a pajama top ranting about being tortured by the ghost of G.K. Chesterton during “quiet time.” Poor thing. Drug abuse and compulsory onanism will do that to a person.

  20. Wombat_socho
    October 17th, 2014 @ 10:33 pm

    ISTR one gamer saying that all the female characters look hot in MMORPGs because “If I have to sit and look at someone’s ass all day in this video game, it better be a good-looking ass.”

  21. Wombat_socho
    October 17th, 2014 @ 10:35 pm

    Paint with broad brushes much? There are a lot of minorities and women who don’t like what Sarkeesian, Quinn, and their fellow travelers (word choice deliberate here) want to do to games. I’m one of the former. #notyourshield

  22. Julie Pascal
    October 17th, 2014 @ 10:39 pm

    And…. there you go.

    The professional *ssholes sending threats (and I do think that there are people who do this for fun, because it’s what they *do* for fun, and they try to find excuses just like the hackers think it’s a joke to dos someone… and there are probably a dozen in all in the whole country, not counting the ones that send tourettes inspired emails after game patches, and not also counting the false flag efforts,) are not “the #Gamergate losers”.

    Tying the two things together, the “good old boys” with whoever is sending death threats, is a *tactic* meant to “win” without ever having to make your case. Someone behaved badly, therefore there is no there, there. Suddenly, as if by magic, no one is trying to shame you for playing a commercial game or enjoying the extreme costuming of a Korean MMORPG. Suddenly, as if by magic, there is no collusion in reporting, and Zoe Quinn is, quite by magic, not now the self-appointed arbiter who gets to decide if you’re evil and need to be shunned for not having *quite* the most perfect of all transgender policies for a game production contest.

    But someone did something BAD. Therefore Sarkeesian and Quinn are beyond all reproach. But someone did something BAD. Therefore if someone insults your choice of fun, you must choose… do you bow down, grovel, and proclaim your misogynist sins and ask (who?) to please make you acceptable? Or you can chose being convicted and dismissed just as if YOU sent death threats.

    This is only a brilliant tactic as long as it works. But it only works as long as people bow to it, grovel, and hope for the benevolent approval of the Saints… and they just don’t.

  23. Fail Burton
    October 17th, 2014 @ 10:44 pm

    I’ve noticed you have researched a lot of work that is not entirely up to date. Radical feminism today is not only anti-male and anti-heterosexual, but with Third Wave Intersectionalism, is also intensely anti-white, anti-Western and also constantly whines about cultural appropriation and postcolonialism and more than anything, white privilege.

    I’d point you to web site called The Feminist Wire for the latest version of intersectionality and also look up “the hounding of Adele Wilde-Blatvatsky.”

    The science fiction community’s institutions are filled to the brim with third wave intersectionalists. Every major work awarded a Hugo or Nebula Award this year was either intersectional or by an author who supports it. One award-winning woman author Tweeted after the Nebulas this year “only one award went to a white male and that wasn’t one of the ones voted on by the membership.#diversityinSFF”

  24. Fail Burton
    October 17th, 2014 @ 10:48 pm

    Are they all threatening people or is the vast majority defending themselves from the mass defamation of whites, men and heterosexuals under the guise of “diversity?”

  25. arcadius
    October 17th, 2014 @ 10:49 pm

    “Weedlord BonerHitler?” Really?

  26. Julie Pascal
    October 17th, 2014 @ 10:49 pm

    I saw the best quote the other day. I don’t have it but it was to the effect that… trying to convince men that female models in games shouldn’t be idealized is like trying to convince women that the tall, muscular and totally studly men in romances should be balding and developing a paunch.

  27. Julie Pascal
    October 17th, 2014 @ 10:50 pm

    Yeah… definitely signals “I’m taking the moral high-road.”

  28. Weedlord BonerHitler
    October 17th, 2014 @ 11:03 pm

    Not at all. I’m not a gamer, and personally dislike Anita Sarkeesian’s videos. I find the woman to be a bit of a con artist, in that she raised over $100,000 to fund a series of videos that are essentially vlogs of a quality that other people make for free in their spare time. But as dull as i find her, she’s doing the same thing that RS McCain and many other people are doing — speaking out against things she doesn’t like and trying to influence things in accordance with her beliefs. You’ve got to be pretty weak & powerless if you consider her a threat who is going to be able to take something away from you. Relax, people. Relax with the assistance of Weedlord BonerHitler. Really.

  29. Adobe_Walls
    October 17th, 2014 @ 11:19 pm

    obligatory *downtwinkles*

  30. Fail Burton
    October 17th, 2014 @ 11:25 pm

    You’re wrong. Sarkeesian pointedly sees men as inferior and defames them. She doesn’t talk about the violence in video games as a human failure but one of men. There is a difference between being abrasive and being a racial and sexual bigot.

  31. Zohydro
    October 17th, 2014 @ 11:29 pm

    Exactly my first thought!

  32. Weelord BonerHitler
    October 17th, 2014 @ 11:42 pm

    Hmm… I’ve only seen the first two of her videos, so I can’t say. If you point out statements she has made to that effect, I’d be willing to listen. I know there are mean-ass ladies out there who hate men, but I can’t classify her as one without proof. Please provide proof to Weedlord.

  33. Fail Burton
    October 17th, 2014 @ 11:56 pm

    Here’s the way it is: if Sarkeesian addressed these issues in the way film violence was addressed in the ’60s, she’d have talked about human failure. What she has instead decided to do is an analogy to talking about ’60s film violence as if it was Jewish failure. Sarkeesian’s defamation of whites, men and heterosexuals as morally and spiritually inferior is a thing Sarkeesian’s supporters will not acknowledge, but is the main source of anger from the men Sarkeesian attacks. Sarkeesian is effectively going into an ethnic neighborhood and yelling ethnic slurs, with predictable results. In such a situation, threats may be wrong but they are inevitable, and you cannot judge the entire ethnic neighborhood by those most willing to make threats. The onus is on Sarkeesian; stop with the slurs and concentrate on the violence and she’ll find far less pushback. The reality is she will never do that because her funding comes from radical feminists who love exactly what Sarkeesian says.

    As for mean ladies, I have two words: Shanley Kane. Go to that tech guru’s Twitter feed for a daily nervous breakdown, including the remarkable one happening right now. She never shuts up about white men, not for one day. And there are plenty more I could list. Anonymous racist blogger Requires Only That You Hate has just been outed and her posts were the most racist in the history of science fiction.

  34. DeadMessenger
    October 18th, 2014 @ 12:00 am

    For that matter, the male characters in game look pretty hot, too, or at least all beef-cakey.

    Which is why McCain’s book could technically be a picture book. Just look at the “box lunch brigade” in the pictures accompanying this blog post, and the agenda is exposed.

  35. DeadMessenger
    October 18th, 2014 @ 12:02 am

    Yes. Yes he is. Don’t even try to argue with me, or no more sammiches for you.

  36. DeadMessenger
    October 18th, 2014 @ 12:55 am

    These women do not understand how geeks operate. It’s as if you’re in the…I don’t know…Women’s and Gender Studies department, and you want to make yourself seem all bad-ass to the geeks in the Math and Physics departments. You will lose every single time, because, you know, homey don’t play dat. Frankly, the lesbians have picked a fight they cannot win. Personally, I’m going to just sit back and watch the blood-letting, which will make Assassin’s Creed seem like Mommy kissing a boo-boo on your knee.

  37. wbkrebs
    October 18th, 2014 @ 12:55 am

    The women in the photos Stacey posts look awfully pallid to me. And if Intersectionality were a real thing, I would expect the feminists to spend more time on slave-taking head-hackers and less time on drunk frat boys.

  38. Daniel Freeman
    October 18th, 2014 @ 1:07 am

    That’s why I’ve started referring to the “oikonormative kyriarchy” — to point out that kyriarchy theory (formerly patriarchy theory) is inherently oikophobic, in the same way that patriarchy theory was heterophobic. I’m catching up to a couple of decades ago.

  39. Daniel Freeman
    October 18th, 2014 @ 1:44 am

    Intersectionality and kyriarchy theory is just a way for middle/upper-class white feminists to resolve the cognitive dissonance of their vagina grievance and white guilt, all without having to acknowledge their economic advantage and apologize for their female chauvinism.

  40. Phil_McG
    October 18th, 2014 @ 3:15 am

    Nein, mein Bonerfuhrer. You are talking crazypoopel.

    And the “death threats”? Boy oh boy, have Sarkeesian and Quinn/VanValkenburg/Valentine/whatever that unfortunate looking sociopath is calling herself this week/ monetised the crap out of those fortuitously-timed “death threats”.

    Why, it’s almost as if their chosen “careers” are to be professional victims.

  41. jakee308
    October 18th, 2014 @ 3:25 am

    Ah. The reason why Science Fiction is dying of late.

  42. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    October 18th, 2014 @ 3:41 am

    Are you sure it isn’t the blue hair dye that got you all toxic?

  43. Fail Burton
    October 18th, 2014 @ 4:38 am

    The SF novel which had an unprecedented sweep of all the awards this year was promoted as one which dealt with gendered pronouns and was “stripped of the male power fantasy… which is what that story managed to do successfully,” according to a black anti-white four-time Nebula nominee who herself claims white SF fans are “racist as [redacted]”. In plainer words the novel was pure radical feminism. These are people who have a feral hatred for Robert Heinlein and Frank Herbert (Dune). Imagine museums which felt the same way about Van Gogh and Frank Lloyd Wright and simply threw it all out in favor of amateur work by the right gay or black women.

  44. Archer
    October 18th, 2014 @ 4:49 am

    Which is why it was a joke and not a policy statement.

  45. Paola Kathuria
    October 18th, 2014 @ 6:02 am

    In reply to this specific comment, I’m one of “these women” because I’m a feminist.

    I’m not a lesbian and I don’t hate men. I’m a geek, a Rational and I have been a gamer for two decades. I started reading science fiction at 13. I like Robert Heinlein (okay, referred to in another comment). I took maths and physics at secondary school. I have a degree in computing and I worked as a software developer.

    The us-and-them picture you paint isn’t as clear-cut and convenient as you’d like.

    I am not your enemy. I don’t want gamers or games to go away. However, I still value Anita’s videos. It’s an important conversation to have.

  46. Paola Kathuria
    October 18th, 2014 @ 6:04 am

    It’s as if this video was made just for you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ah8mhDW6Shs

  47. Phil_McG
    October 18th, 2014 @ 6:08 am

    Thanks Paolo.

  48. Paola Kathuria
    October 18th, 2014 @ 6:12 am

    Pfft. After chemotherapy four years ago and inspired by Final Fantasy (playing since FF7), I decided to dye my prematurely white hair my favourite colour.

    (To pre-empt any cancer comments, someone already tweeted me this yesterday: “holy shit. Get cancer u fucking feminist faggots.” Quota reached.)

  49. Paola Kathuria
    October 18th, 2014 @ 6:18 am

    “I find the woman to be a bit of a con artist, in that she raised over $100,000 to fund a series of videos that are essentially vlogs of a quality that other people make for free in their spare time.”

    Her funding goal was only $6K. But the hate campaign that ensued fueled a backlash that caused a surge in backers. You can’t blame Anita for the hate campaign nor the backlash.

    No one was conned. Get used to the fact that nearly 7,000 people cared about what she has to say enough to back her Kickstarter campaign.

  50. Paola Kathuria
    October 18th, 2014 @ 6:25 am

    There is something quite genius about: “The only thing more pathetic than a PUA is a male feminist; they’re both beggars, but at least the PUA is begging for more than a belly rub.”

    It articulately encapsulates the cliche that women’s only function is to provide sex to men.

    You should print that on a t-shirt.