This is a really good video about how feminism is bull and Anita doesn't research what she writes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJeX6F-Q63I

Here's the thing: I agree with some of the things this guy says. I agree, game designers AREN'T making stories like this with the intent of keeping women down or upholding the patriarchy or whatever. They're just trying to make a fun game. And Damsel stories ARE often meant to appeal to our empathy, to make us care about what we're doing as players (or at least to give us some in-game explanation for why we're beating up all these dudes). And I suspect Anita would agree with those points as well, but they have little to do with the argument she ACTUALLY makes in her videos. She argues that so frequently putting the female character in the role of the Objective, of the thing to be saved or retrieved, just turns them into an object, motivation or plot device in the male hero's story. The damsel becomes less a character and more just a motivation or goal. Which is true! Whether the designers are intending that result or not, that's the effect. And when we lean on that trope so OFTEN, it leaves a large number of gaming female characters as mere flags to be captured and returned to base. And that kinda sucks. Yes, it may provide some motivation for the male heroes to rescue her, but it also reinforces the male-centric nature of these stories. And the problem of male-centricity in video game stories is kind of what the entire Tropes series is about. Whether or not the male hero CARES enough to rescue the damsel or what the designers intended actually has very little to do with Anita's argument. For a video putting so much emphasis on truth, research and exposing the fallacies in her series, he shows a remarkably poor understanding of what her videos actually say. And "because they serve a market" is a flimsy reason to justify anything. I don't want to get mean about it. I guess my main problem with that video is that it mostly consists of cherry picking sound bites and criticizing SOME of the things Anita has said (things he finds contradictory or disagrees with) in an attempt to discredit EVERYTHING she says. And I don't think he succeeds in doing so. Now I'm NOT going to say that I agree with everything Anita says. Hardly! Some specific points I think she could argue far more effectively, other points I disagree with entirely. And that's ok! But also I support her ultimate intent: to analyze the problematic and sometimes sexist portrayals of women in our games. And I think her video series is, for the most part, successful in doing that. The best thing you can do with a topic like sexism or racism or any other cultural problem that is deeply culturally ingrained and sometimes difficult to see is to TALK about it. To shine a light on it. To examine it in depth so that we actually CAN see it and can then try to do better. I am all for more people doing that.