I'm not sure why you used 'dudes' in quotes. In any event, finding random people that have opinions on the internet is not hard, I'm talking to you and asking about yours. Can you, while referencing Sarkeesian herself, explain why the Double Dragon example was an own goal?

Thanks, a youtube video from an immoral dunderhead that doesn't like Sarkeesian, what I always wanted. Shame it doesn't discuss Double Dragon: Neon. I think you meant to bore me with this https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

But that obviously misrepresents Sarkeesian who was just talking about the trope where the players have to rescue a damsel in distress by spinning a 7 second animation (that only occurs in one relatively modern variation of the game) as if that shows that the Damsel wasn't really in distress?? Perhaps you should try focusing on the primary source: Sarkeesian's vidoes rather than getting your information from radical afeminists.

Anyway, as fun as it was to watch you fail to construct an argument allow me to do the work for you.
Damsel in Distress, Part 1, Anita Sarkeesian
Double Dragon's opening vignette contains a woman being beaten and carried away - the male heroes must rescue her!
Double Dragon Neon starts with same vignette, this time in HD.

That's it. That's all she said. It's completely true. The plot of the game is to rescue a damsel in distress, who is shown right at the start. This is not undone by a credit sequence where after the bad guy is defeated by the guys, he sings a stupid song about how he wants the girl to be his girlfriend but the heroes were too awesome for him as he falls towards the girl who during a 7 second sequence punches him in the balls. Then you are treated to a screen with one of the heroes holding the damsel in a stereotypical hero pose. This does not undo the fact that the woman's only role in the game is to be kidnapped and rescued by the male protagonists, meaning it fits the trope.

How does this few seconds of animation wherein the damsel in distress has the bad guy defeated for her and then gets the last punch in for comedic effect, undermine Sarkeesian's point about it being a game about a damsel in distress again?

I see, so she didn't mention the groin punching climax game's name, then? Why do I get the feeling that's not true?

That jackass should go to somewhere else, such as Paris Gym, which is 100% male only. He never has to worry about women intimidating him at the gym again. http://www.parisgym.com/about....

You overall point is fine - but schizophrenia is nothing to do with holding lots of contradictory views, opinions or personalities. There may be comorditity with Dissociative identity disorder, but most schizophrenics don't have it.

I didn't make such an equation. Whatever error you think you have spotted, I'm sure Sarkeesian cited the thing she was talking about, which puts her miles ahead of you, it seems.

I've not seen Sarkeesian attempt to give the impression that her examples are the only way things are (just that the examples she has are numerous, and are mainstream games). Maybe, once she has finished her deconstruction of where the industry has gone awry she'll spend some more time on the positives. But you know, there are already reams and reams of works about how awesome some games are in some places and her 'job' is to discuss where the problems are as some people are still unaware of how repetitive and awful it is. As cinema goers grow bored of 'obvious token love interest' women in film, attempts are made to subvert or even ignore this trope by the industry. There are some movements in the gaming industry to try and stop portraying the same five women characters (sexy, geeky and sexy, dangerous and sexy, DO NOT WANT, disturbingly neotenous and 'sexy') so regularly and instead try and diversify their art a little.

Well at least Sarkeesian understands how to construct a critical piece, unlike your hopelessly non-specific vagueness. Good luck with that.

Entirely possible, and if so, deserving of a debunking. I could understand irritation even. But anger? I can't really get that.

What do you think of what she said on those games in 'Women as Background Decoration'?

Trying to influence society is not 'the problem', its typical human behaviour that many people make a vocation of. Please do explain how expressing critical views on art can be dangerous and is akin to persuading people not to vaccinate the children in their care, I'm fascinated.

I'm completely unclear how it is cherry picking. Her series is showcasing examples of poor portrayals of women (stereotypes and tropes particularly) in computer games, so obviously she is going to pick games where she can find examples of poor portrays of women!

Have you quantified 'internet celebrity' harassment to conclude that Anita is getting a normal amount? You certainly implied you had done so when you stated your opinion as fact in your opening paragraph.

Ah yes, it's all {the other group}, not {my group}. I'm afraid this isn't quite true. American culture as a whole is suspicious of socialism. The Republicans are actively trying maintain this position as they can use it to gain votes. Don't delude yourselves that Democrats are anything other than right wing capitalists just because they are left of the Republicans socially. The issue isn't just a broken political system and corruption but also your Overton window.

You want in on 28 days of paid holiday, paid sick leave, paid maternity and paternity leave and 35-hour weeks? As a culture you might try to get over your fear of the word 'socialism' :)

Oh noes, a content producer made a six figure lump sum for several years work - she must be criticized for not representing the games industry in its entirety, using a small set of unrepresentative examples to represent the whole - clearly she is open target for vicious criticism.
The games industry aren't content producers, never make any money and so are definitely blameless in the content they produce and should not be subject to negative criticism of any kind because so doing makes you a hate-baiter who is insulting the people that consume the content.

Her videos aren't about how gamers hate women. They are how women are commonly portrayed as sexual targets or victims in the games industry, to the point that it has a whole forest of tropes associated with it. That isn't because women are hated, it's that game designers seem to think without sexual imagery that appeals to men, they wouldn't sell as many games. Which is usually true only because big games tend to actually suck and they need to be visually appealing. There are plenty of games which are neutral or otherwise fine - but there are too many (big sellers) in which women exist only for the aesthetic appeal of men.Do you have any evidence of her saying that gamers are haters? Or have you conflated criticism of people involved in making games you enjoy as criticism of your group and therefore of you? That would be a little foolish, I think, so I hope that's not the case.

Incidentally, there are plenty of other people tackling the news, film and religious groups - so you don't have to worry that Sarkeesian is alone. I'm going to be frank - some of the ugliness that comes out of the gaming and tech industry is pretty damned ugly. If you want to see what women get for criticizing men in a religious-based discussion then you might look to Jen McCreight,Greta Christina, Aayan Hirsi Ali, Maryam Namazie. They tend to get death and rape threats for pointing out that the religious (and irreligious) cultures are still too infused with misogyny. It's not all that different than with the game industry, only gamers have less excuse than religious people because Assassin's Creed 2 is not a central part of (most) gamers' identity.

Yes - everybody in the 21st Centry who makes death threats over the internet does that...because the police don't knock on doors in response to this, unless it gets to David Mabus levels.