Anita Sarkeesian - Star Wars: The Force Awakens Review

 
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She dosent like strong female characters? BUT WHAT ABOUT RIPLEY
Where did you get the idea that she doesn't?...
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keeps her from being another example of the tired “strong female character” type we’ve seen too much of these past few decades.
She put quotation marks around it, meaning she's referring to to pseudo-strong female character types that are pretty much everywhere in the industry nowadays. Women who have no personality or humanity, and just beat people up for the sake of sending the heartless, shallow message of "HEY LOOK! WOMEN CAN DO THIS TOO!" without being sincere.

Unlike Rey, who actually has humanity. As she stated.


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Anita Sarkeesian is the one true voice for all civilized people in America.


 
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I DONT GIVE A SINGLE -blam!- MOTHER -blam!-ER ITS A MOTHER -blam!-ING FORUM, OH WOW, YOU HAVE THE WORD NINJA BELOW YOUR NAME, HOW MOTHER -blam!-ING COOL, NOT, YOUR ARE NOTHING TO ME BUT A BRAINWASHED PIECE OF SHIT BLOGGER, PEOPLE ONLY LIKE YOU BECAUSE YOU HAVE NINJA BELOW YOUR NAME, SO PLEASE PUNCH YOURAELF IN THE FACE AND STAB YOUR EYE BECAUSE YOU ARE NOTHING BUT A PIECE OF SHIT OF SOCIETY
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It's sad how Verbatim went from an angry, bitter, ignorant, social pariah, to a slightly less angry, bitter, ignorant, social pariah and low grade troll that uses memes.
>social pariah

lmao what the fuck

Also:
The world is a horrible place to live and you should be excited to die.


 
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>he thinks people legitimately like him

LMAO
either people like you, or you're a pariah
gotcha

Also, life is the worst thing ever.


 
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"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably."
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It's sad how Verbatim went from an angry, bitter, ignorant, social pariah, to a slightly less angry, bitter, ignorant, social pariah and low grade troll that uses memes.
>social pariah

lmao what the fuck

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The world is a horrible place to live and you should be excited to die.
>he thinks people legitimately like him

LMAO
People like him more than you, that's for sure.


 
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I don't like her opinions on a lot of things because she seems to focus on how people look and dress, rather than the character they have

which completely goes against what I was taught to look at with people

I also knew she'd automatically like it simply because Rey was the main lead. It's kind of obvious how she'll take things.
Last Edit: December 31, 2015, 02:10:17 PM by Luciana


 
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I don't like her opinions on a lot of things because she seems to focus on how people look and dress, rather than the character they have

which completely goes against what I was taught to look at with people
oh yeah, sorry--i forgot to put your trigger warning on this one :P


 
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I don't like her opinions on a lot of things because she seems to focus on how people look and dress, rather than the character they have

which completely goes against what I was taught to look at with people
oh yeah, sorry--i forgot to put your trigger warning on this one :P
Just because I'm disagreeing with what you posted doesn't mean you need to try and be a clever boy about what you post in response.


 
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Just because I'm disagreeing with what you posted doesn't mean you need to try and be a clever boy about what you post in response.
i would've said that anyway

i'm just being cheeky, 'cause i know you don't like it when i do the fake trigger warnings


 
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Just because I'm disagreeing with what you posted doesn't mean you need to try and be a clever boy about what you post in response.
i would've said that anyway

i'm just being cheeky, 'cause i know you don't like it when i do the fake trigger warnings
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In her video on sexualization in gaming, she showed segments of RDR, which pissed me off. There was footage of John hogtying and carrying a girl, but.. You can do that to anybody, and there's no incentive to do it to only girls. Sure, there are prostitutes, but almost everyone in that game's setting is scum, that's the point of Red Dead Redemption. Mostly everybody in that environment is the lowest of the low, and even acknowledging that, there are plenty of very strong female characters in the game. Bonnie and Abagail, specifically. And John is incredibly respectful to women throughout the game.

That sort of misinformation makes me angry.


 
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In her video on sexualization in gaming, she showed segments of RDR, which pissed me off. There was footage of John hogtying and carrying a girl, but.. You can do that to anybody, and there's no incentive to do it to only girls. Sure, there are prostitutes, but almost everyone in that game's setting is scum, that's the point of Red Dead Redemption. Mostly everybody in that environment is the lowest of the low, and even acknowledging that, there are plenty of very strong female characters in the game. Bonnie and Abagail, specifically. And John is incredibly respectful to women throughout the game.

That sort of misinformation makes me angry.
yeah but RDR has nothing to do with this video


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I always rationalize the black-and-white morality as it being a family movie accessible to children. It's a simple hero's journey with light moral lessons that kids can get.


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yeah but RDR has nothing to do with this video
It has to do with Anita whatever-her-last-name-is, so it's somewhat relevant. I'm just pointing out some aspects of her videos that can be misinformed.


 
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I always rationalize the black-and-white morality as it being a family movie accessible to children. It's a simple hero's journey with light moral lessons that kids can get.
Sure, I often make the same sorts of rationalizations when it comes to shit like the battle of Endor.

Yeah it doesn't make sense but who cares it's a kid's movie.

You can reduce all of the film's flaws to that--but ultimately, I don't think it should be used as an accuse for lazy writing.
There are child-oriented films and shows that have grey moralities in them.


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" The truth is that I have a deep, dark secret of my own: I’m not a Star Wars fan."

No one should read or watch past this. At least not seriously.


 
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" The truth is that I have a deep, dark secret of my own: I’m not a Star Wars fan."

No one should read or watch past this. At least not seriously.
because only star wars fans can have an opinion on star wars, right


 
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In her video on sexualization in gaming, she showed segments of RDR, which pissed me off. There was footage of John hogtying and carrying a girl, but.. You can do that to anybody, and there's no incentive to do it to only girls. Sure, there are prostitutes, but almost everyone in that game's setting is scum, that's the point of Red Dead Redemption. Mostly everybody in that environment is the lowest of the low, and even acknowledging that, there are plenty of very strong female characters in the game. Bonnie and Abagail, specifically. And John is incredibly respectful to women throughout the game.

That sort of misinformation makes me angry.
yeah but RDR has nothing to do with this video
I think he's on about consistency with her stuff. Making exceptions to the general rule is a very dangerous thing if you ask me.

And on another random note, I wonder if people get mad when they put games in certain time periods. Like in AC2, there were prostitutes, which was a legal thing. Would she get mad seeing them?

Or in Fallout New Vegas how Caesar's Legion treats women

Or in some ancient games where there are no black people in England.

Or in Bioshock Infinite how they had "WHITES ONLY" signs based on the Jim Crow era.

Basically getting mad at how people/situations were in real time lines/cultures is what I'm getting at. There is no point to. Showing how things were =/= racist or misogynistic.


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I was intrigued by Finn’s resistance to his lifelong conditioning, and his obvious horror at acts of violence and torture. But it took all of a few moments until he was more then fine killing “the bad guys,” even though he had just been one of them. Weren’t they raised from childhood to be cogs in a military machine just like him? Don’t they have the same potential for good that he does? Are their lives so expendable?

This bothered me too, and is one of the reasons I really disliked him.


 
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The truth is that I have a deep, dark secret of my own: I’m not a Star Wars fan.

Well there you go. That's all I needed to see. Just like how she says she's not a gamer, nobody should give a fuck about what she has to say about Star Wars.


 
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Well there you go. That's all I needed to see. Just like how she says she's not a gamer, nobody should give a fuck about what she has to say about Star Wars.
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because only star wars fans can have an opinion on star wars, right


 
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Goodness gracious, great balls of lightning!
Well there you go. That's all I needed to see. Just like how she says she's not a gamer, nobody should give a fuck about what she has to say about Star Wars.
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because only star wars fans can have an opinion on star wars, right
Her favorite part of the movie is the skin color of the protagonists. That is hysterical.


 
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Her favorite part of the movie is the skin color of the protagonists. That is hysterical.
Not really.


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Well there you go. That's all I needed to see. Just like how she says she's not a gamer, nobody should give a fuck about what she has to say about Star Wars.
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because only star wars fans can have an opinion on star wars, right
Her favorite part of the movie is the skin color of the protagonists. That is hysterical.

One would expect an advocate for equal representation of minorities in media to be excited about seeing it done so well in something as big as a Star Wars film.


 
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Goodness gracious, great balls of lightning!
Well there you go. That's all I needed to see. Just like how she says she's not a gamer, nobody should give a fuck about what she has to say about Star Wars.
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because only star wars fans can have an opinion on star wars, right
Her favorite part of the movie is the skin color of the protagonists. That is hysterical.

One would expect an advocate for equal representation of minorities in media to be excited about seeing it done so well in something as big as a Star Wars film.
It was already done before in Star Wars 30 years ago with Lando.


 
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It was already done before in Star Wars 30 years ago with Lando.
He wasn't a lead.


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Well there you go. That's all I needed to see. Just like how she says she's not a gamer, nobody should give a fuck about what she has to say about Star Wars.
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because only star wars fans can have an opinion on star wars, right
Her favorite part of the movie is the skin color of the protagonists. That is hysterical.

One would expect an advocate for equal representation of minorities in media to be excited about seeing it done so well in something as big as a Star Wars film.
It was already done before in Star Wars 30 years ago with Lando.

Putting a single black guy in a series and calling it done is literally the definition of tokenism.