Secular Café: Anita Sarkeesian at TEDxWomen 2012

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Anita Sarkeesian at TEDxWomen 2012 Dec 7th 2012, 03:09 Anita Sarkeesian at TEDxWomen 2012 - YouTube - reported by Anita Sarkeesian's TED talk and the predictable response » Lousy Canuck There ain't no misogyny on the internets | Pharyngula She describes her haters and attackers as a loosely-organized "Internet mob", and she showed some of the gendered insults and abuse that she got when she proposed to make a video series on feminism. This included a game where you punch a picture of her until she looks very hurt. She shut down comments and ratings for her her YouTube upload because of all the haters who would get to work on it. But one of them reposted it, and it's got plenty of hateful comments so far: Anita Sarkeesian at TEDxWomen 2012: COMMENTS ENABLED EDITION - YouTube I find it baffling that she has gotten such extreme hostility. It's sort of like the hostility that Rebecca Watson and Jen McCreight and Greta Christina and others have gotten, hostility that I find equally baffling. That proposal: Tropes vs. Women in Video Games by Anita Sarkeesian — Kickstarter Her home page: Feminist Frequency At YouTube: Feminist Frequency - YouTube

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