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Edited by Seggi: 8/4/2013 7:47:19 AM
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protip: the people who get mad and make hour long videos about things Sarkeesian says in the Tropes vs Video Games series are the kind of simpletons who go into Hulk mode whenever somebody mentions the word feminism. You'd do well to ignore them. The biggest valid criticism that can be made of Sarkeesian's video series is that most of the stuff she says is really obvious.
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  • Edited by UKGuy44: 8/4/2013 8:11:58 AM
    How about you do a little research before making assinine assumption about people based on your own preconceived notions of how people are based on so little actual information (sounds a lot like the same people that make assumptions on how women should act based on preconcevied notions). If you watch some of his videos where he talked about it, he admits that some people feminists are radical but not all of them are like that and some of them just want equality for women. [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=qX5j4loNmuc&t=389]Example video of him defending feminism.[/url] And way to not actually justify her use of using other people's work without crediting them which is unacceptable.

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  • Edited by Seggi: 8/4/2013 8:15:23 AM
    It's not based on 'little actual information', it's based on having seen a great deal of the criticism toward Sarkeesian based on this video series, including this guy's previous video on the matter. [quote]And way to not actually justify her use of using other people's work without crediting them which is unacceptable.[/quote] I really don't need to, but alright, I'll bite: in-game footage from a Let's Play isn't the work of those Let's Players, it's the work of the developers, which is being used within the scope of fair use, as critics often do, by Sarkeesian. The Let's Players' use of the content is actually far more questionable in terms of copyright than is Sarkeesian's. If the people who had made the video were demonstrating something unique they'd worked on, like user-created content, I'd agree she should name them just out of courtesy (not that it's a matter of it being 'unacceptable' - it would be a minor issue regardless), but all she's used in this video series has been essentially the equivalent of stock footage. This is typical of the criticism of Sarkeesian's video series: it's both insignificant and wrong.

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  • Edited by UKGuy44: 8/4/2013 8:17:01 AM
    You are factually wrong in assuming that "the people who get mad and make hour long videos about things Sarkeesian says in the Tropes vs Video Games series are the kind of simpletons who go into Hulk mode [u]whenever somebody mentions the word feminism. [/u]You'd do well to ignore them." [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=qX5j4loNmuc&t=389]Example video of him defending feminism.[/url]

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  • Alright. It doesn't really matter.

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  • Edited by Aporia: 8/4/2013 7:52:32 AM
    Nice handwaving of valid criticisms. The simple fact is that Sarkeesian's body of "analytic" work is utterly superficial dreck that gives no insight into art, video games, or psychology, and that you are a pretentious blowhard. Edit: You edited your post into something a bit less dumb. Please read this post in a slightly less hostile tone now.

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  • I've seen his criticism (and many others') before - it's all either incorrect, about something insignificant and mostly irrelevant or (usually) both. And watch the personal insults to other members. This is still a S7s thread.

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