She hates freedom of speech unless it suits her. But hey keep drinking the kool aid.

Your attempt to make me seem like I cannot understand what empowerment means is false.

Actualy, no. Ellie is not completely dependent upon joel, she is put under his protection to be transported from point A to point B in the game. During this time Joel , eventually stops seeing Ellie as a job and eventually develops feelings for her, and eventually ends up falling for her as if she were his own daughter, which he lost earlier in the game.

Ellie as a personality, is brash, brave, wise beyond her years and self sufficient; however, she has a lot to learn in skill, philosophy and survival and joel gives this to her. She grew up in a post apocalyptic world and knows how to cope with it. She did not witness the world transform from tranquility, to shambles.  She might not be able to overpower a man, but she knows how to take them down and survive on her own (especially after Joel helps her). 

Joel eventually has to let go of Ellie and allow her to use the tools at her disposal to protect herself if need be. In the beginning of the game she is trying to cope with Joels protectiveness (admist his reluctance to be her protector). In the middle of the game he realizes that he cannot stop her from helping him and as the game progresses he can no longer stop her from growing into the survivalist she was always meant to be. He finally gathers the will and teaches her lessons which  allow her to shoot certain guns  (broadening her experience) and this helps her in the sequences later to come where joel would eventually need her help. He could no longer deny her.

Ellie was already a brave character, but joel empowered her to survive much longer during his time with her than without. He became the father she didnt have and she became the daughter he didn't have. His issue with empowering her, was learning to let go, because eventually she meant more to him than his duty to protect her. She returns the favor to protect him in kind. Joel couldnt protect her forever and just as he began to teach her...he needed her more than ever.

I'll just leave the definition of empower here for you.

If she has a problem with the way women are treated in specific games, then take it up with those developers. Every developer should not feel responsible because 'game x promoted male fantasies of sexualised women'

One thing people have against her is her lack of fact, or evidence, over opinion. "blah blah blah gives into male ego.." But why?! Did a dude ever claim to have sex with a girl because of the sex scene in god of war? Did anyone ever drag dead women around because of hitman absolution?

No!
Mens brains are more than sponges. We can think, we can reason, we can logically observe. We know right and wrong, and ultimately, what is on the screen, is stored in temporary memory of our brain for the meanwhile we are playing the game with the so called sexualised content.

It's her personal opinion at the end of the day that certain scenes are designed to sell to male fantasy. But not every scene. 

Actually I'm wearing this avatar because I lost a bet lol

Anyway, I can't help but feel gamers are acting as though they're a victim in this whole situation--as though Anita is forcing her opinions upon them. If someone doesn't agree with her they should simply make a good argument against her, instead they freak out and become super childish. Funny thing is, by freaking out about her they're actually just giving her more power.

Like I said before, I don't agree with everything she says, but I do admit she makes some good points and that the portrayal of women in entertainment is pretty messed up and I see nothing wrong with devs (or anyone in the entertainment industry--her older videos have little to do with gaming) following some of her advice--in fact it would probably make the gaming market a bigger and better place. 

The fact some people hate equality between genders so much is a bit disappointing to be honest.

Hatred clouds the mind, you don't think rationally when you feel so much hatred. Though you are right, hate is criticism. It's criticism that doesn't help anything though. What I'm asking for is criticism that is done in a matter that is respectful, it doesn't have to be friendly, but it should be be done with a clear mind and with the intent of helping things get better (which I believe Anita Sarkeesian tries to do).  

"Your attempt to make me seem like I cannot understand what empowerment means is false."

i did not say that, i said that based on your belief that ellie is empowered that you do not understand what it means at this point... to say that i said that you "cannot" understand it implies that i'm saying that you have some kind of mental defect and that is not the case

"Joel eventually has to let go of Ellie and allow her to use the tools at her disposal to protect herself if need be"

actually that's right now that i think about it i'm wrong

i had forgotten about the winter months when ellie had to take care of joel and keep him safe and provide food for him

so yeah my mistake i was only remembering the first half where joel had to escort her everywhere 

"I'll just leave the definition of empower here for you."

yes i understand empowerment but the ways i see it being used recently makes me wonder about if its losing its meaning

People 'hate' because of Anitas lack of valid argument. An argument needs a point and evidence. She can easily come out and say "This game is designed to give in to male fantasy", but where's the evidence that men are psychologically void that they cannot differentiate between real and fake?

Second point is, because she blocks critiques on twitter, even those who aren't aggresive or abusive.

Third is, this isn't done Primarily for the good of feminism. She makes money of this. 160 big ones infact. For someone who asks for money, and gets a lot, you expect valid arguments, well sourced and evidence-filled.

She promises 12 videos in 2 years, and makes half of that. Those who paid for what they were promised could naturally be angry at that alone. If we can hate at Bioware for an awful mass effect 3 ending,
we can hate at Anita for low-quality, less-than-promised quanitity, invalid arguments and pushing agendas of female superiority. 

I could go on either side. I think that her message is important. It needs to be talked about. I just think she doesn't do it in the ways that actually help.

For instance her video critiques are often disingenuous. She will assign meaning to actions and scenarios that simply can't be attributed to the game. I think that if she were more genuine in her characterization of certain games she wouldn't get the strong hate reaction we tend to see associated with her.

sarkeeesian and feminists like her perpetuate hatred towards women even more than the men that she criticises for doing so 

off the top of my head one example i can think of is when she said that the character bayonetta is nothing more than a fighting fuck toy that is made for the pleasure of male gamers

therefore, she is offensive to lesbians there implying that female homosexuality is illegitimate, she implies that any women that have bayonetta's appearance and attitude are "fuck toys" and she's also offensive to men obviously and she acheived all of this with a few tweets

and that's just one example that i can think of

Unless a game has to do with historic or fact-based content, I really don't like the idea of someone who doesn't understand the concept of game design or games in general to give their input. That's basically what a focus group does and as we all know, some of the best products ever made ignore focus groups. This is the problem with games in general. Instead of selling the idea of playing something fun, marketers now want to sell games based on the characters or the story. I think so much of it is ass backwards.

The truth is most game protagonists are shallow and most stories for games suck. This is because the industry doesn't hire actual writers for most games to develop characters or stories, and instead do it themselves. This is why in 2015, one guy is able to annihilate an entire race of aliens by himself. This is why a lot of women are poorly portrayed. I think there's a good solution for all this. Instead of getting an ultra-feminist or a political correctness group to tell developers how to write their characters for the sake of their political agenda, maybe publishers should hire people who are professional writers for books and movies and have them work directly with the game developers. AND maybe, MAYBE marketing should be focused away from the characters and story and more on what makes the game so much fun to play.