Hey, you know those feminists who say they want to harm men? And you remember how feminists, like Anita Sarkeesian, say that even joking about wanting to harm women is wrong?



Elsewhere, elsewhere, elsewhere (because of course Pat would approve of it).

EDIT: Oh, right, the link: http://femfreq.tumblr.com/post/58161053721/spider-man-recruits-the-help-of-anita-sarkeesian-to

In order

1. Gearbox didn’t actually do much development on Duke Nukem Forever. They were just the last of three developers.

2. Everybody hated the game. Including the sexism. It wasn’t fun, it wasn’t funny.

3. Duke is a satire of a certain macho stereotype, not an endorsement. Kinda. (I’m not sure if I agree with what Stirling says about Pitchford, if mainly for lack of information.)

4. Burch didn’t join Gearbox until after DNF was published.

5. Burch is a social justice type. He and Gearbox went out of their way to include diversity in the Borderlands 2, and Borderlands 1 was already more diverse than most games. Ellie alone represents significant progress. (And this is coming from someone who’s doesn’t like adding diversity for diversity’s sake* and looks leerily at most feminist claims about rape.) They even included a reference to that “fake geek girl” non-controversy controversy in Dragon’s Keep.

However, the idea that he’s some sort of Man on the Inside who would endorse murder is actively appalling to me. When Anita says the writing style is typical of Gearbox games - you know, video games - does she include Borderlands 2? The one written by Burch? How about Colonial Marines? The Half-Life expansions? Was she even aware that Gearbox has done more than Borderlands and DNF? Was she aware that most of the writing for the latter was done by people at Tryptich, not Gearbox, and GB disavowed it like it was Mission Impossible.

No, wait, I suppose expecting Anita to be intellectually consistent or spend a few minutes Googling, given her record, is a tad optimistic.

* Personally, I don’t add it unless it benefits the narrative, characterization, or, in my usual case, “eh, why not?” And that’s why a Christian dude keeps finding himself writing stories with gay and bi males and females.

Previously.