Did Anita Sarkeesian fabricate the death threats made against her on twitter?

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champybh said:

Ckorik said:

This doesn't make the film industry look bad, it doesn't make any particular movie sexist.  This could however, attempt to show the film industry where it is overusing tropes in lazy or inappropriate ways.  This in turn could cause the film industry (could - not will) to show some introspection and perhaps attempt to avoid these types of scenes because they are easy to write.

I don't have much to add except that this point can't be underlined enough. Let's demand more of video games (and movies) as an artform. Our writers don't have to always be lazy in how they portray women. There will continue to be games/movies that use these tropes and that's okay to an extent - let's just make the creative forces think about it first. This is the core of the Sarkeesian videos and honestly don't understand how people lose the message because they are butt hurt about thinking that it's somehow going to ruin video games. 

 

ok but what does that mean?

does it mean that there should be more instances where women are the heroes in games?

well ok fair enough that would be great imo

however, i think the reason that currently men are the heroes in games more than women is fairly obvious and it isn't rooted in misogyny or sexism or whatever

its rooted in biology in that men by default are bigger, stronger and more aggressive than women and those traits are what heroes in video games generally embody

when you think about it this is generally what games are centered on

the physical prowess of the main character and their aggression in using their phyiscal prowess to overcome obstacles to achieve some goal

whether that involves jumping platforms, killing monsters,moving objects etc etc etc

these are task that are generally tailored towards masculine traits which as i mentioned are aggression, strength, etc etc etc

 

whereas women are naturally more gentle and weaker (physically) by comparison again this is not sexism or misogyny its biological fact

so therefore imo its not suprising that they are more often than not relegated to more passive roles whereas men take the more active roles

in games where the focus is the character achieving some physical feat these roles are simply a reflection of our inate characteristics imo

 

so i suppose that from my perspective what needs to be done is that more games need to be developed which emphasize the strength of feminime as opposed to masculine characteristics