Yeah, as far as windows Store goes, things went from empty to spamfilled with no golden era of sorta useful in between.

I'm not defending the quality of her reviews, but some points are both relevant and good.

But near as I can tell the "no interest in games thing" doesn't have any source besides being mindlessly repeated by people who hate her. I'm going to guess you saw someone say that and assumed it was true.

Godwin's law is fine. Go ahead. Claim you win because you made a lazy argument ad populum.

No, my worldview really does allow for a little flexibility when stakes are extremely high.

Let's just all agree that Sarkeesian is not Hitler. She posted videos with opinions.

Yeah, and thus we throw those who go too far in jail. This is kinda how living in a society works. There are limits.

Whatever individuals made that work that she's accusing of being shitty, and only if their ego is invested in their work having no criticism.

That's not an entire gender. Is this the level of discourse you really want to be having?

How about we agree that stereotypes of any sort in fiction hurt people, and not let that be a fucking excuse for this case of stereotyping real people.

I know, like those damned jews pissing off the Nazis, right? Or maybe those black people pissing off the KKK by voting.

Sometimes thousands of people can just have shitty beliefs then do shitty things.

Take your just-world bullshit and shove it.

It's reasonable to expect all people to refrain from credibly threatening the lives of others.

Honestly, no, I don't entirely think that's it. I mean, obviously tribalisism is part of it. She's the outgroup, the threateners are the ingroup. But it's also genuine sexism.

I know, I know,. You're not allowed to accuse people of being sexist or racist behaviors, because it's like an ad hominem, and you're a social justice warrior, or whatever.

But bear in mind the "lies about being harmed in order to manipulate" thing is a stereotype about women that misogynistic fucks absolutely love. So they see a woman making that accusation, the stereotype activates in their mind, and they immediately apply it to the current situation.

Uh, when I said the amount of evidence is zero... what exactly do you expect me to present?

Did you read more than half of one sentence?

And, of course, she didn't do that. She insulted some common lazy writing and setting shortcuts that are used in fiction that also (sometimes) happen to be rather sexist.

There's no war on men, and in her latest series(I can't remember her older work perfectly, I seem to recall it's true there too, but let's keep it recent) she never makes even one even vaguely oblique reference to men as a collective. Not one. Neither positive or negative. She talks about assumptions of male audiences a bit, but that's clearly in reference to the thought processes of the developers.

Don't mistake this as an endorsement of her points all being correct, just none of them are this gendered insult strawman you're using to excuse inexcusable behavior.

There's this relatively conflation of negative female stereotypes and feminists among MRA types that helps drive this. So they like to take all the bad things old-school misogynists about women, and pretend it's just true of (all) feminists.

"Emotionally manipulative liars" is one of those old school stereotypes about women, and so AC here takes that typification, and extrapolates it onto Sarkeesian without any sort of evidence to bear out that she's actually like that. It's sad that some people become tentatively aware of gender issues, and immediately turn that into overwhelming sexism.

Maybe the fact that there have been tens of thousands of threats(of admittedly varying degrees) made against her in less private venues already, and people like you will go out of your way to defend it for no apparent reason.

The amount of actual evidence out there that Sarkeesian has been willing to lie about threats is zero, and so randomly assuming that is kinda just stupid and shitty.

If I wanted to read the article, why would I be posting on slashdot?