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Maybe People Should Not Look Up To YouTube Atheist
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 (December 9, 2013 at 10:48 am)Psykhronic Wrote: Oh please, everyone blew the fuck up needlessly over Anita. As much as I hear feminists going on and on about cultural appropriation, it's only fair that the geek environments call Anita out when she's appropriating our culture just so she can complain about it. 
Huh? She is a part of geek culture as far as I understand. And so am I, and I do not find what she did to be wrong.
RE: Maybe People Should Not Look Up To YouTube Atheist
December 9, 2013 at 11:11 am
(This post was last modified: December 9, 2013 at 11:13 am by TaraJo.)
RE: Maybe People Should Not Look Up To YouTube Atheist
December 9, 2013 at 11:18 am
(This post was last modified: December 9, 2013 at 11:21 am by Psykhronic.)
There is a contradiction. But the lie can go either way, either she lied back in her lecture about not being a gamer and claimed to not play video games (perhaps she did not want the association because of her own feelings towards them) or she lies currently about playing video games. Given the pictures I've seen of her collection, and even as a kid, versus what she claimed back in her lecture, I cannot take a side at this moment. So I'd rather judge her videos on whether or not they have anything of value in them, rather than if she is a TRU GAMER. Yeah I'd think it's rather scummy if she lied, but I still do not see why there is a mass hate thing against her. The shit she says is on TvTropes and everyone seems to LOOOOVE that site.
Also, I stopped considering myself a gamer during certain periods of my life (since I couldnt keep up with newer consoles due to money), but found I was still called a gamer by old friends from MMOs and such so decided to keep the title. And things she has pointed out are things that I noticed as someone a part of the gamer/geek thing, so I'm hesitant to label her as of right now. I will admit, that video raises a question about her gamer status, but I do not find that to be very damning. RE: Maybe People Should Not Look Up To YouTube Atheist
December 9, 2013 at 12:34 pm
(This post was last modified: December 9, 2013 at 12:35 pm by Psykhronic.)
I think that, if Anita truly is a gamer, she likes the games in spite of finding problems with them. Granted, I only watched her first video on damsels in distress but that was my 'vibe'. This is kinda an interpretive dance sort of thing, but that being said I can see where you are coming from. Also, she did a ted talk video and did comment on liking video games because they are fun and can benefit a person - that's pretty much what I would say as a 10 year old intensive gamer up to age 16 (I did play video games younger but would only say they are 'fun'). And I will still, as a casual gamer, say the same thing.
Also, the Nostalgia Chick is great, and I will agree she is much better at this shit. I haven't seen those girls above and below her before but I'll check em out.
Now I think we're finding real common ground here.
Yes, I think gamer culture has misogyny in it, no doubt. I've heard it thrown at me a time or two when I'm playing World of Warcraft and I've had other geek/gamers who are actually really surprised that I'm a girl gamer and I'm pretty good (I kinda like that, though, because it makes it so much more satisifying to beat them). But I also think there's certain feminists who have a bad habit of making misogyny where no misogyny actually exists and this is a problem... and it should be seen as a problem to other feminists. Specifically, it starts to turn into a boy who cried wolf thing. If they call eveyrthing misogyny, people are going to start dismissing them whenever they talk about misogyny. When that happens and real misogyny rears its ugly head, nobody is listening to them so it's kinda hard to do something about it.  (December 9, 2013 at 8:47 am)NoraBrimstone Wrote: I used to love Thunderf00t till he turned out to be a misogynistic cunt who thinks women deserve to be raped.Evidence please. Oh, and I find it rather amusing that you describe him as a "cunt", given how that word is usually blasted by feminists for being a gender based insult...or do the rules somehow change because you used it against a man? 
Bad Wolf
Compulsive procrastinator  Religious Views: Agnostic atheist, anti-theist, whovian, misanthrope?
Yea I don't get 'gender insults' like bitch and cunt, they are insults specific to a certain sex, so what? I don't care if you call me a dick or a bastard
'The more I learn about people the more I like my dog'- Mark Twain
'You can have all the faith you want in spirits, and the afterlife, and heaven and hell, but when it comes to this world, don't be an idiot. Cause you can tell me you put your faith in God to put you through the day, but when it comes time to cross the road, I know you look both ways.' - Dr House “Young earth creationism is essentially the position that all of modern science, 90% of living scientists and 98% of living biologists, all major university biology departments, every major science journal, the American Academy of Sciences, and every major science organization in the world, are all wrong regarding the origins and development of life….but one particular tribe of uneducated, bronze aged, goat herders got it exactly right.” - Chuck Easttom "If my good friend Doctor Gasparri speaks badly of my mother, he can expect to get punched.....You cannot provoke. You cannot insult the faith of others. You cannot make fun of the faith of others. There is a limit." - Pope Francis on freedom of speech  (December 9, 2013 at 10:46 am)Bad Wolf Wrote:I'm at work now, so I can't youtube. It was only one video I saw, and I couldn't bring myself to watch it because it made me too angry. It was posted here before, I think TFAC posted it? I'll have a look now.(December 9, 2013 at 8:47 am)NoraBrimstone Wrote: I used to love Thunderf00t till he turned out to be a misogynistic cunt who thinks women deserve to be raped. |
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