I wrote about this
here. Groups that embrace Marxism & Alinksy's Rules for Radicals cannot be reasoned or negotiated with. Whether it's FARC or Feminism (exceptions made for Paglia and a few others) they view peace as an excuse to rearm, and hold themselves to no standards whatsoever in the struggle. FARC will employ child soldiers, sell drugs, and burn down villages to win Columbia, and the media constantly paints the government as reactionary for not bending over. Sarkeesian will lie and manipulate to her hearts content, selling out her supporters as well as destroying the video gaming culture at large.
There's something dark on her face. If you know what to look for, it's the same thing that Elliot Rogers had shining through. I'm not sure what happened to her exactly (though some of the people I've spoken with, who knew her before she was Feminist Frequency have some suspicions), but at some point somebody told her that she was worthless, and she believed it. She amputated her soul, and now she's one of the people who wants to see the world burn.
Her influence thus far has been palpable. As others have noted, she's a consultant for EA Games on Mirror's Edge 2, she speaks at large conferences, and she's talented enough at NLP and Feminist talking points that most people who listen to her think that she has a point, even if it might be slightly exaggerated. It takes an extensive knowledge of the games in question, as well as Feminist rhetoric in general to see through her; heck, most Gamers won't be familiar with every game she critiques, and an uncritical eye would assume that her errors that they notice were honestly made.
Her methodology is provoking attacks on herself to prove her victimhood - the same way FARC will have a platoon of child soldiers attack the government, so that the government can be painted as murderers. Taking her face-on is the wrong strategy; but at the same time, simply boycotting magazines will be insufficient. That'll win us a battle, but it won't do anything to change the strategic situation of the war. The Ailinksyite ideologues will be able to remuster, and start their campaign over again, this time with a new label and cause of agitation.
The clownfish is a creature that hides amongst venomous coral, and lures its enemies in with its bright colours, and then feasts upon them when they're paralyzed. That's what she's doing. So how do you fight against a creature like that? You don't - you destroy the coral reef that it lives in.
This is the same battle we've seen in Academia, Journalism at large, Politics, Hollywood, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. In most cases these people are so well embedded that they're nearly impossible to oust; the only people who can even attempt it are high-level academics or politicians, who've already been forced to engage in a lot of hypocrisy to get where they are, or have major popular support due to outside factors, like Ronald Reagan - but even then, they're limited in how far they can go, they have to maintain face.
What's going on in Gaming and tech is different, however; there's a real opportunity here, not just to defend games, but to make a palpable blow against the subversives amongst us. This whole Zoe Quinn scandal caused the masquerade to drop briefly, and they exposed their true face to the world; there's something legitimate to attack them on that can't be denied without fabricating the facts.
But facts? They're whatever the establishment says they are. Academia's decided that nobody but PhDs have the facts, and to be a PhD you have to toe the line. The media, whether it's CNN or Fox, are playing off of the same data sheet. Gaming and tech, however, are not so monolithic.
I agree that writing attack-articles on most feminist nonsense is - at best - entertainment for the manosphere, a bit of advertising for your blog, but futile endeavours in and of themselves. Take-downs of Anita's bad logic might get a lot of views, but they don't accomplish anything. The documentary we're trying to do goes in an entirely different direction, and embraces the fact that
the medium is the message.
1. Deny the enemy resources.
These SJWs don't actually care about the people they claim to represent. You guys all know this, I don't need to elaborate. We'll be speaking to plenty of people who've been harassed by the SJWs despite being members of officially protected groups, people that we (Jordan and I) and the RoK readership might disagree with on a number of topics, but whom we'd never attack - and show that the SJWs have attempted to destroy their lives.
2. Attack where the enemy is weakest.
The direction we're taking is to expose this systemic corruption; we're not arguing Anita's points, we're pointing out the hypocrisy of herself, and anybody who touches her, or Zoe Quinn, or Adria Richards. Sarkeesian isn't our intended target, she's just the
causus belli to marshal our argument. We're going to be exposing anybody who's supported her lies, and make her a toxic commodity - to make people think twice before they ally with an SJW in the future.
3. Control the Battlefield.
Go check out the Wikipedia page for Sarkeesian; there's no mention of criticism, because there have been no 'authoritative' critiques. Put simply, it doesn't matter how well Thunderf00t disproves her arguments, or how well any of us write about these topics online. The US Supreme Court might recognize us as journalists, but the MSM, Wikipedia, and Academia dismiss anything we write as hearsay. With a documentary that all changes; suddenly we have something that demands acknowledgement on IMDB, and Wikipedia, that also reaches a larger audience of non-gamers. By exposing Sarkeesian et al, we expose the methodologies of the people who do this in other realms. The public becomes a little bit more aware of these disingenuous manipulators, and it becomes that much harder for them to do what they do.
We have a major opportunity to win a strategic victory here; to get a voice out there that isn't Fox or CNN, and which undermines their dominant narrative. That makes high-level journalists fear for their careers, in the same way that we've made low-level journalists shut down their twitters. That points out the hypocrisy of not recognizing the blogosphere as legitimate journalism.
I'll be honest, it's a bit frustrating that we're having so much trouble getting traction for this, especially when Sarkeesian earned 160,000 despite being a complete unknown (Jordan and I have reputations to protect, and if we weren't confident that we could make this thing, we wouldn't be trying). The video at the start of this has 20,000 views; if half of the people who'd watched it donated a buck a month to our Patreon for the 5-month filming period, we'd be able to start filming TODAY. Instead we're seeing a lot of 'suspicion' from GamerGate people, which is nothing but laziness and slacktivism at the end of the day; none of it is honest worrying.
Incidentally, that short film that you guys helped me get the votes for? That'll be available online in the next week or so. It's not perfect, but it turned out pretty well for a budget of $10,000. I've shown it to some of my friends who've worked in Hollywood, and it's managed to impress them.
