Anita Sarkeesian: An Assassin's Creed Syndicate Review

[wilco]

Tachikoma said:

LurkerJ said:

Why?

"Worst review ever" 

Not even close 

"I am not going to give her a view"

Insightful

"Oh dear, so that con artist has actually started reviewing games, from her 'oh look at me, poor victimized woman' perspective...not that I believe for one second that she actually plays any of them."

Awesome

"Would anyone post a summary or is just feminism bs? Pretty useless review? Will they count her score for metacritic, won't care."

What's this?

"Oh for the love of god, when will this chick just fall off the face of the earth? Her "Men bad, women good" shtick has gotten stale already."

Pure class.

 

 

 

Don't take what I said out of context and tell me to be careful with my accusation, it's hardly an accusation. Is it a bad review? It is. Nothing to get worked up over either. Not within a community that worships metascores regardless of the quality of the reviews behind these scores, at least.

Because people talking about the review, or anita is kinda the point of why a forum exists, to bring up a topic and talk about it, you might not like what others have to say about it, however when it goes from making comments about a video or the person that made it, to making comments about other users in the thread, you move into sticky territory in that you are skirting the rules of the forum.

It has nothing to do with taking what you say out of context, and everything to do with giving you a fair warning.

And yes, implying that certain users came in to the thread with a predisposition to hate on the video in question, regardless of how true that may be, is making an accusation.

So here is the thing on that. The rules of the forums are all fine and good but I'm going to call a spade a spade. It's really not an accusation, its just a fact that plenty of users didn't even give the video a chance. There was even one user who said he was going to learn how to code and make a game for the express purpose of spiting Sarkeesian. That is an absurd level of animosity for someone that the user probably doesn't even know.

I've said it many times before. I just don't get the vitriol being directed at Sarkesian. Yes, she is off base sometimes but her videos are just opinions. She poses absolutely ZERO threat to anything. I get your issues with the video because you articulated them. I just don't understand why more people can't simply argue the merits and flaws of Sarkesians videos instead of either dismissing or demonizing her. 

The frustrating part is that there is actually a pretty interesting dialogue that could be had on both sides if people would just tone down the hostility and argue their positions in a meaningful way. I'm not even saying people should be nice, but at least make some kind of point, the "anita sarkesian is dumb" comments add nothing to the conversation.