Most leftists like to say that "anitas critics never even watched her videos". Those who did, did she really make any good points that women in gaming were just mere sex objects and nothing more or were just damsels in distress? I still see leftists saying she was right like shaun and big joel. I dont like her because for example she said that Elizabeth from bioshock infinite was a sex object for the male gaze and shat on other female characters like lara croft and bayonetta for daring to show skin. Ffs I dont even think characters like ivy valentine are sexist. Im a man and I dont find sexualized male characters like the ones in final fantasy mmo or granblue fantasy sexist to men (and before anyone says those characters are power fantasies, heres what one of the characters look like. if you honestly think thats just a power fantasy for men and isnt sexualized than idk what to say). Shes like a fucking nun who thinks women showing any inch of skin is automatically objectification. Ffs she got mad at bo katan for daring to have armor that helped her breasts. How can leftists who claim to be sex positive like such a prudish lady idk. And shes also against sex work and she is against the slut walks too, which is funny because I bet most of her supporters dont even know that.
Overall whoever watched her videos, did she make good points or proved how sexist gaming was like breatubers and leftists say?
Yes, her emphasis on how the player can murder prostitutes in x game was one of the most blatantly bullshit examples.
Because giving players free interactive options that happen to include, shock and horror, being able to murder in cold blood not just men but women too is "clearly" a case of "deliberate misogyny" on the part of the developers.
Furthermore, she completely omits facts that would draw every one of her arguments into question. IE, where murdering said innocent people offers penalties in the gameplay, offers little to no benefit/reward, etc.
Hypersexualization/unrealistic beauty standards exist on both sides of the fence. She's complaining about not getting special treatment because she's upset (again).
Look at captain falcon. Any street fighter character (aside from e Honda). Thunder from killer instinct. Barrett from ff7. Kratos from god of war. Godfrey/Hoarah Loux from elden ring. Etc
Those are all hypermasculine characters in video games and that's not even the tip of the iceberg, of course.
This is not at all the one sided issue she makes it out to be. Her problem is that she sees these fantasy characters as competition rather than an ideal to strive for.
She tried to tear others down rather than build herself up because she's lazy and insecure.
She lied about playing games, she made manipulative claims and she ignored any game that she did not like. Why are you even thinking about her is beyond me.
Everything about her was shallow and easily debunked or countered, the only reason she got her 5 mins of fame is because she had support inside the industry. The journalists and the developers wanted someone like her to justify their activism. If it was not her it would have been someone else.
I couldn't watch anymore after she claimed a cape acting under gravity was somehow a high tech garment designed to keep players from looking at Batman's butt. The part where she claimed voice-actor grunts in response to the character being hurt were actually sexual moans also didn't help.
Admittedly, this has been taken as something of a running joke in game vocals with female characters for years. But it's largely a coincidental result of just how vocal tones between men and women play out.
Like the only alternative is for female voice actors to try and sound extra masculine or extra screechy, which can be taken to ear-murdering levels even with male voice actors.
oh totally, it's even a thing that's actually used in porn parodies were they literally just take voice grunts from a game and slap it into the animation. but to insinuate that that's somehow an insidious secret code to make women sexual is just laughable.
Anita is on record saying that “don’t like it, don’t buy it” is not a sufficient response to sexualized depictions of women in media. Her very clear implication is that such media must be totally eradicated. This is a communist idea; the market cannot be allowed to dictate product, but rather a centralized authority should decide what media you can and cannot consume. This is the sort of horrible thing that good people should fight until their dying breaths.
That aside, Anita pushes cultivation theory, which is has no basis in scientific literature. All legitimate studies point to entertainment media as a minimal or nonexistent factor in anti-social behavior. So even if we did decide to “ban steak because babies can’t chew it”, the effect on “choking” would be slight or none.
I've seen criticisms, I do not want to give her views, but from the meta-analysis I've seen she has no leg to stand on
I did, back around when she started putting them out. At first I thought she might've had some interesting points, but it didn't take long for me to start seeing the gaping holes and deliberate distortion of facts, seeing her and her videos for the grift it really was.