| S.T.A.G.E. said: I am pretty pumped that she's helping with Mirrors Edge to make the female protagonist as badass as possible. I am also a feminist (but foremost egilitarian) and even though I don't always agree with her words, she does bring up good points. When she won the Embassador Award at the Game Developers Choice award, Neil Druckman (who who introduced her) spoke about her influence on the character of Ellie in the Last of Us. In my honest opinion, Ellie is the most empowered female character ever created and has so much to learn in her story growth about survival. If she had an influence on that character, I really wouldnt mind her influencing the female protagonist in Mirrors Edge. I understand that she bites when she talks about subjects, but someone has to do it. If not her, then who? |
As someone who signed a petition to get rid of her, addressed to EA, I can tell you that the petition got a response directly from EA that Anita Sarkeesian is not, and never was, working on Mirror's Edge 2.
As for why the hate, it has nothing to do with her criticism, but with her hypocrisy. Having sex with people to get favors in gaming journalism is terrible, especially for a feminist. A real feminist would have exposed them for the scum they are, not joined in the corruption of gaming journalism. I'm a feminist, and support better representation of women in gaming, but I would never support someone like her who sets women back.
