[budoslavic]

(03-11-2018 12:56 PM)debeguiled Wrote:  

Aaaannnnd a year later, Angela is still talking about Roosh and other pickup artists, being flown around the world to talk about them, getting grant money that she spends on online pickup materials.

I am posting this for the record only, there is no real reason to watch this unless you like seeing a psychologically conflicted person hate herself while pretending to be strong and above it all.

I could only watch about half of it. I truly felt sorry for her. She seems like she knows she is wasting her life and unable to stop.

Couldn't watch the whole thing. My brain hurts from turning into a stupid person. Impakt 2017's website had some pages about her.

Quote:

Angela Washko is an artist, writer and facilitator devoted to creating new forums for discussions of feminism in spaces frequently hostile toward it. Since 2012, Washko has operated The Council on Gender Sensitivity and Behavioral Awareness in World of Warcraft, an ongoing intervention inside the most popular online role-playing game of all time. Her most recent project, The Game: The Game is a video game presenting the practices of several prominent seduction coaches (aka pick-up artists) through the format of a dating simulator. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Art at Carnegie Mellon University. Washko has exhibited nationally and internationally at venues including but not limited to Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki, Shenzhen Independent Animation Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, The Andy Warhol Museum, and the Rotterdam International Film Festival.

The visit of Angela Washko is made possible with the help of Het Nieuwe Instituut with support by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

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Washko’s (US) work in the exhibition Haunted Machines and Wicked Problems presents her performances in the fantasy role-playing game World of Warcraft. She occupies an avatar to interview other players about their perspectives on feminism, resulting in sometimes humorous, sometimes shocking outcomes. Washko will talk about her work The Council on Gender Sensitivity and Behavioral Awareness in World of Warcraft (2012-2016), which is on show at Fotodok/Casco. She will additionally present and facilitate an audience-participation based performative play-through of her most recent project The Game: The Game, a dating simulator presenting the practices of several infamous pick-up artists.

Edit.
This is what she looks like now.

[debeguiled]

Yeah, before she got obsessed with Roosh, she spent six years playing World of Warcraft, and then decided she could be an artist by having her avatar wander around the game trying to start conversations about feminism.

Then she went after Roosh and was surprised that anyone criticized her, and then realized that maybe it was because she wasn't a member of the manosphere.

Then she bought a bunch of pickup books and online classes and videos, and made a multiple choice game basically using the words of the PUAs, so, no creativity on her part. The only thing she did was manipulate the photos of the men in the game to make them look as creepy as possible.

She has also shown a talent for taking things out of context.

I didn't know being a scold was a legitimate path as an artist, but evidently, it is now.

She is also a hypocrite, because her audiences are getting a lot of prurient interest in being exposed to conversations and techniques that weren't intended for them.

She and her audience are creepily voyeuristic.

They are a perfect example of the limits of irony. Saying everything in inverted commas as a kind of armor against culpability. I don't even think she knows why she is ironic, or how not to be snarky. I would be willing to be she cannot turn the irony off. I bet when she is in bed she even says, Oh God, and 'I'm coming.'

In this video, to me, her body language seems somewhat embarrassed to be doing what she is doing. I don't think she would know the truth if it bit her.

Bill Hicks used to have a savage bit about how a formerly good comedian, Jay Leno, had sold out to the big corporations.

That is what this chick has done, though she has sold out to a bereft, weaselly, insincere conception of social justice. She can do the most boring, pointless, autistic things her little heart desires, as long as she includes all the right phrases, and hits all the social justice marks.

It has got to wear on her soul. Good call Budoslavic, not watching too much of it.

[RatInTheWoods]

"Washko has operated The Council on Gender Sensitivity and Behavioral Awareness in World of Warcraft"

JUST WHAT THE GAME NEEDED.

A state funded, hate fueled feminist invasion.

[RoastBeefCurtains4Me]

I listened to the video, and clicked a couple of minutes into get past the introduction. She had some WoW video on the screen, and she said that for four years she was doing "performative interventions" in the game community....

I had to stop it after that. 9 seconds was all I could take!

[Gmac]

Yikes, looks like she's gained weight.