Points of Misogyny
A lecture on video game culture was canceled at Utah State University this week after the school received threats of a mass shooting.
Controversy that started online has now moved to the real world, reports CBS News correspondent Jericka Duncan.
“Women are often a damsel in distress or helpless in some way, or they’re highly sexualized and created to be these male fantasies,” media critic Anita Sarkeesian said.
In her video blog, Sarkeesian speaks out about the way women are unfairly portrayed in video games.
She planned to speak on this topic at Utah State University before the school received an anonymous letter, threatening a massacre.
The letter read, “I have at my disposal a semi-automatic rifle, multiple pistols, and a collection of pipe bombs. This will be the deadliest school shooting in American history.”
Yeah. It’s as though he wants to note only prove her point correlating violence (especially toward women) and the demeaning imagery of video games, but also pop open the aspect of moral panics that pretty well fell out of the wayside in recent years, save for spokespeople for the NRA who not only need some defensive maneuvering but are worried about the opportunity loss in switch of hobbies.
Seriously, what is being lost? If he really wants to protest, he should stick with not attending the conference and stay in his room and play his stupid damned video games.
Then there’s this guy, who is… er… protesting an all women’s comedy festival here in Portland, because… hm.
Again. What’s the point? Some of the comedy will be good, some will be bad, some politically, some more strident in their feminism than others, but should they want to… everyone there will be able to make comedic fodder of this dude.