I come to you from an even further future to respond that DICE choose wisely after their second Battlefront game had a disaster of a launch. After the backlash the devs decided to listen to the fan feedback and I would argue the current Battlefront game in my time surpasses the original. I literally played both the 2017 and 2005 Battlefronts back to back to test this and although I did enjoy playing the 2005 game, its starting to show its age, at least in my time.
I come from further in the future. rise of skywalker is garbage. EA made a good game (jedi fallen order) and i want them to develop more silgle player star wars games free of microtransactions.
Also to add more to Sarkesian. Anyone who gets 100.000 dollars to make videos after she asked for it and then goes around doing fuck all on youtube for weeks kinda deserves a shitstorm on their head. Again death threats and rape threats are not fine but seriously it's not unsurprising people would get pissed off.
I really really hate and disagree with Anita's opinion, but I would NEVER send death threats or take threats or ANY threats to someone with an opinion.
EXACTLY, I don't get why people have done that against a girl who has an opinion... DOES IT MATTER FUCK NO DOES THE INSULTS MATTER FUCK NO, but she has an opinion, and everyone who has sent a threat is FUCKING STUPID. also does anyone know that ducking is a word?
Angry Joe, I'm a woman and many of us are angry about what Anita spreads. She does not represent gaming women. Please don't put her on a pedestal when even real feminists feel coned by now, because the videos that she makes are full of false information and not the research and smart topics that we were promised.
i dont think he was putting her on a pedestal. what he was saying was that, no one deserves the rape and death threats she has been getting. thats all. in fact, i did some research. many of the posts those trolls have made against her actually break the UN charter of Human Rights... International Law. now, dont get me wrong, im not defending anitas opinions or politics at all, let alone support them, as i dont support them at all, i have many personal issues with the cause she represents! and i dont see how someone who doesnt play the games she talks about can actually have an opinion on them as she doesnt have the context. i just agree with joe that, she doesnt deserve the horrid threats and comments she has received. no one does. at the end of the day that is still someones little girl you know. in fact, its against the UN charter of human rights to treat anyone the way the trolls have treated her. and i will do my damndest to protect her from those trolls, as No one deserves to be attacked in such a depriaved why from such utter dregs of society! i wouldnt wish the treatment she has received even on kim-il-sun. but that is all i will do, defend a fellow human being, as for the rest of it, i disagree with her opinions and politics entirely! now, i will agree with you that there is a lot of false information on her videos, and that kickstarter campaign Reeks something damn fishy!! but, if there has been a con or two going on, that is up to the united States legal System to sort out. it is their job to judge and, if proven, punish her. Not ours. we, the users of CZcams are not legal Experts. The US supreme court are so, please people, leave the job to them! .
Simeon Yves 1. Remember that USA is a heavily capitalist country. www.candyswipe.com/king.html 2. I think that she deserves heavy critique mostly because not only did she take money, is spreading false information, but she's trying to sell her nonsense to schools. 3. I do agree that she does not deserve death and rape threats though.
mirta000 good point, America is perhaps the personification of all that is evil about money. no wonder the 2 greediest publishers in gaming happen to be based there. still, i doubt she has the money needed to err.. "convince" a "wrong decision". were talking billions for that.. she only raised, what...16 thousand bucks? 2. yes, she does deserve heavy Critique, I agree perfectly, and i agree most of her videos are Pure Propaganda, and nothing more. i mean, i can point out that "there are no strong females in gaming" is Pure BS with two Player Characters and Three Games off the top of my head.. Cate Archer from No One Lives Forever and its Sequel, and Joanna Dark From Perfect Dark on the Nintendo 64 which really does prove she doesn't do any research as those are pretty old games now. And i am personally Disgusted to my very core! at her selling the "Femenist cause" in schools, especially Elementary, as kids should Not be exposed to such complicated and if used incorrectly, dangerous, political views, especially when they are too young to understand! i do agree she should be critiqued on that, and heavily! But, in a reasoned, calm, and educated Manner. because as soon as someone goes "BANG!", especially a male, she wins. because it gives her ammunition she can use to "proove" that all male gamers are dangerously insane man-children who hate women,.. or some other ridiculous and disgusting extreme feminist propaganda. 3. and that is what i will defend her from. nothing more. she is a human being, no matter how much i disagree with her.
scscanlan true. true. it is indeed people who are greedy, but, it is the american mega-corporations, like EA and Activision, who are the "sterotypical personification" of corporate greed, the "Trope Codifier" if you will. Also, I really have to wonder, would capcom have taken such a disgustingly greedy business strategy as they have done, had EA not shown it was viable by doing it pre hand?
I think most gamers are just tired of hypocritical people that know next to nothing about video games, coming to them and saying that gaming is offensive/for kids/makes people violent or whatever other bullshit they come up with.
^This. I'm damn sure that Jack Thompson got way more death threats than Sarkeesian, but no one ever defended Thompson. While death threats and such are vile and disgusting, it just comes with the medium. You make anything on the internet and chances are that some kid will disagree with you and send you a childish death threat. Anita was put in the spotlight because of the fact that she happens to be a feminist. Even though her arguments are completely faulty. If Sarkeesian was a dude, no one would care that some hack on the web got death threats.
Larty42 Mario has never been a game series that has a good story. It's always been about minimalistic stories such as "Peach be kidnapped,go save her" or " There be evil green monster,go beat up". It has nothing to do with sexism, it has everything to do with Mario games having no story to them, thus every single character is a damn trope.
Larty42 Super Mario Bro 2. (NES) Super Princess Peach. (DS) Mario Kart, Mario Sports games, Smash brothers, etc... Nintendo always used peach in a flexible manner. She always did different things. She was never "ALWAYS" a damsel in distress. I think they did a good job with her character.
Tanks for sharing our suffering, today a PS4 in Brazil is a lot cheaper, about R$1.500 (about US$400) but took a lot of time to it to change. I'm happy to see that you care about the gaming community in other countries.
Glad to hear it all changed for the better for Brazillian gamers. I hate when goverments try to fuck over their own people, because of corruption, or politics, or "economic" reasons, or all of the above. God knows, we also have a lot of this shit in Russia (but thanks God, our government doesn't care too much about games, or we would be royally fucked, lol).
I am all for women's rights, and I totally agree that women are WAY too often overtly sexualized in video games, but Anita Sarkeesian says some really Goddamn stupid stuff.
ChineseKiwi Totally, I'm not trying to excuse the idiots on the internet. I just think Angry Joe is being perhaps a bit too apologetic to people like Anita and Phil Fish, even if their haters are dickbags.
I love how he was right about the comments section, all the top comments are about the feminist chick. I think it is about time we have a serious discussion about tomatoes.
Anita Sarkeesian...mentioned in an Angry Joe video...I think I need to sit down for a moment. I think you missed the point of why people are outraged at her Joe. There is so much I can say about her. Anyone who even bothered to look up the controversies that surround her will understand why. And I'm not talking about opinions...but cold, hard facts and the many contradictions, lies, twisting of data, and other things that have arose since this all started...even some before. I'll be honest, I don't like her but I don't think she should have gotten that overreaction. If she honestly thinks that there is something wrong, it is in her right to express herself...but the way she is going about all of this is so highly questionable, that it seems like something about her is discovered almost every month that contradicts her and discredits her. It's really a shame since I was actually looking forward to her "Women vs Tropes" video series. I may be a guy, but I'm not blind or deaf to intellectual conversation.That's actually how I initially found her, since I thought I would find it there. I guess none of this will matter anyway. The public only sees that she, a female, was attacked by male gamers, which I have to question as well, and nothing else. That's what was put on the news and that's the only thing people seem to care about. I've done my research on her to make sure I'm getting my facts straight. I even conducted some independent research where I listed the number and ratio of characters and their genders in the majority of games I own (around 170 now) to get a better picture of all of this. And I'm still adding on to it with every new game I get. I'm just getting tired of this subject since I'm automatically the one in the wrong since I oppose her. Regardless, interesting video. A lot of crap really did happen this year alone. Lucky number 13, right?
Î think the main problem with Sarkeesian is and always was that her videos are simply mostly lies, she does not work from the ground up, instead of looking at something and going along the lines to form an opinion, she starts with the opinion and than handpicks some scene, ripping them out of context and than says how bad everybody is, if she would have worked right and not just look stuff up in wikipedia, she wouldn't have faced such a strong opposition and I'm talking about real opposition here, there are tons of videos critizising her work not the fact that she is a woman. Furthermore Joe, you never heard anyone threaten you? I mean I have seen a video of some asshole making fun of you claiming to be angry jose, in my opinion thats much worse than some stupid "omg I repa ya", thats simply childish, rather than someone attacking you personally, furthermore why did she never talk about samus, as far as I remmeber, she is the most badass "chick" in the gaming industry, personally I think she could kick almost every heros ass, strike that..she could kick everyones ass.
About the 'Repa ya' thing, I think it's obvious that women are more sexually harassed than men. Not saying it doesnt happen to men, but it is more common with Men on women. And TotalBiscuit once said that one negative comment doesn't hurt you, but to see it daily will eventually break most people's backs. Lastly, a person once said this in regards to the 'anti-feminists': "When you hear a complaint that someone has raised, you might think that they’re expressing an irrational, emotional, over-reaction to the situation. You might even be correct - but it doesn’t matter, and here’s why: You don’t get to decide what someone else finds offensive. You don’t get to decide what someone else finds uncomfortable, unwelcoming, disconcerting, stressful, harrassing, troubling or painful. You aren’t the world: everyone isn’t exactly like you."
Not to sound like a dick but angry Jose sounds like a bad ass name, yet again not trying to be a dick, just thought something, also I do have to agree with you about Sarkeesian, I do agree that there is some Sexism in the gaming industry and some of it is flat out pretty bad, but she generally just lies rather than proving anything, which is a shame, a sad wasted opportunity
Sure, there's sexism in games, but that's because developers most often aim at their Male market. Women are 47% of the gaming population (that's actually a fact), but they're still seen as a minority in devs eyes and gamer eyes because they're not audible. Miss Sarkeesian is trying to change that. however she's not doing it how it should be done. and for that she's getting death threats. disgusting, really
Pinklett Cobbler I think the problem here is, this woman kills randy pitchford in a short story, she endorsed this and finds that great, but beating one picture up is much worse? I have to ask what kind of hypocrite do you have to be to complain about "death and rapethreats", however endorising killing someone else in another way is allright, because you are the one "pulling the trigger?" Sexuall harrassmend is "silly" anyway, if you see how feminists want to define it, after all a big story in the feminists movement and further more a cancer in the atheist movement, is the "elevatorgate" where asking someone for a cup of coffee/tea to continue a talk later one, obviously means that this was a serious rape "attack", look it up its horrible. Something else here, do you personally believe that what happend was all that 4chan could do? We all have seen what a violente force 4chan can be and "all" the reaction miss sarkeesy has to show for herself really is "just" a bunch of "I repa ya" attacks, I hope you pick up on my intent on why i misspell it, and "I will kill you" attacks, which really don't mean anything, log into xbox or any online game, how many people will call you a bitch or threaten to rape/kill you or any familymember and thats not because you go against their opinions, thats just because you play a game against them. So really the 4chan reaction first seems horrible, but if you really think about it there wasn't much of any reaction there. And lets not forget, Miss S. constantly complains how women are descriped as weak and useless creatures and how they are not able to defend themself against the evil big men dominated space..and what does she do with all this "omg look how they react" yeah..she draws the victim card that she herself complains about, that makes alot of sense. FrankHorrigan377 Well I saw it ages ago from someone who called himself the "critique of critics" or something, the main problem is that he said he was not going to argue about what he will portray and then started bullshit like "Ahh look at me waving my hands like an idiot and shouting and mugging the camera and having cheap greenscreen effects", if my recollection serves me right there. The problem is not that someone is doing it, the problem is that you are not "open" to debate, similar as Miss S., who untill today, has not replied to the hundreds of videos calling on her opinion and "debunking" her arguments, she is jsut there to "puke" out her argument and if you say something against her she just pulls the "someone said he wants to kill me" card to silence you. Commander John Shepard Yeah, but the problem here is, just changing the roles around aka. having a woman rescue a man does not actually change how sexit any of this is, this is what boogles my mind really, she somehow thinks that having a woman as a hero and a male as a "damsel" is alright, but that makes no sense in my eyes. The gender of the damsel should not be important, but also her conclusions are wrong, man do not want to rescue women because they think they[women] belong to them and its "theft" to take them away or it someone takes their "power" over the women away, no its love and friendship and all that that drives a hero to rescue his/her loved ones, not some stupid power fantasy. Furthermore she had the ability to rip one of the best examples of sexim a new one, metroid other m, that thing alone could have allowed for an entire video to deconstruct how horribly they "raped" the beloved Character of Samus Aran, I personally do not even see this piece of shit as cannon, no matter what those dunces from the productionteam claim, Samus is a strong independend women, not some whiny "omg I need help from men to hold open a door" or "I will suffer needlessly and painfully, untill some men says what I have to do" aka Hell run. Sorry but this game is garbage and as far as I can recollecte, please right me if I forget it, she never really doves into this, the perfect example of sexim that even pissed off tons of ~male~ fans and she does not take up on it?
Anita Sarkeesian gets hate from people not because of her opinion but because she herself isn't even a feminist, she's a con artist. Also Joe: You're telling trolls to stop trolling her. Don't feed the trolls.
She's not a con-artist. She asked for a small sum, people like you blew it way out of proportion, which gave her a ton of publicity and money. She gave exactly what she promised to give. Just because you don't agree with it, doesn't make her a con artist.
@@xTrinity007 his argument involved defending a con artist who cherry picks her arguments, ignores anything that contradicts them and doesn't even properly play the games she talks about which is why she ends up with such ignorant views. AJ was a grade A white knight here, he should have called her out, the argument is way more than just "she stole people's gameplay footage". She misrepresents games in order to make them look bad and her look good.
Angry Joe was definitely white-knighting here but yeah he's right there was no reason to send her death threats or overreact, especially when her poor journalism would ultimately lead to her being irrelevant by 2020 anyway which was obvious at the time.
@@joet8862 Joe's main point of that segment was that it's fucking obscene and also wrong that she's getting death and rape threats over her own opinions. Nobody deserves that type of treatment for sharing their own opinions, and even if she used somebody's gaming footage without permission it's in no way justifiable to send her death threats and saying that she should get raped. Also, calling Joe a white knight for simply being a decent human being and defending her from the ridiculous mistreatment she was getting is fucking pathetic.
@@fetussupreme3600 She had the ears of Drunkman and was a confidant. It isn’t bizarre to think her involvement had some influence the games direction. Drunkman has done panels repeating her same talking points.
Nothing justifies some of the vile shit sent her way. Hate on her all you like, I think she’s a bitch too, but arguments over video games is never an excuse for the level of harassment she’s been faced with. No one should have to fear for their safety over gaming.
Neither did I! I actually embarked on a CZcams adventure following this video, a "Quest for Anita" you might say... and discovered that there is an almost universal revulsion towards her from the gaming community, and for apparently good reason. Joe makes some valid points about trolls in the internet community, but it's nearly impossible to watch Anita's videos as a gamer and not cringe in agony at the blanket terms and generalizations she makes towards gamers. It's quite bizarre, not to mention the out-of-context material she cites from video games she allegedly "played"
I have whole new level of respect for Angry Joe on the Anita Sarkeesian controversy. I lost the same amount of respect on thuderf00t and AmazingAtheist for taking the time to argue on the topic.
I feel sorry for Phil Fish. Kind of reminds me of how I was in school extremely depressed and EXTREMELY stressed out. Hopefully he didn't kill himself and is living a much happier life.
Joe just called her out on her lack of crediting and footage theft, as well as criticising the disgusting rape/death threats - rightly so. He didn't agree with her. Goes to show how people see an argument as two sides, disregarding objective reasoning and critical thought.
I gave Joe a standing ovation for his rant about Anita Sarkessian and the hate she receives. That was beautiful and summed up my thoughts entirely. Honestly, those angry man-children really make me hate the community as a whole. Gamers of the world, please stop attaching your egos to videos games. It's great that we're all so passionate about what we love, but sometimes we take it a bit too seriously. And frankly, it makes us look bad. Honestly, what I find hilarious are the thousands of men who seem to literally dedicate their lives and effort into "discrediting" and "debunking" Anita Sarkeesian. Seriously? Is one woman critiquing your precious video games really worth this much anger and hostility? The anger and vitriol she receives is uncalled for and should not be tolerated. Honestly, these people remind me of those right-wing, Second Amendment nuts who go absolutely insane whenever the issue of gun control is mentioned, and subsequently arrive at the extreme, illogical and irrational conclusion that President Obama himself is going to personally arrive at their doors and take their precious guns away. It's the same reaction, if you really think about it. Anita Sarkeesian is not a threat to anything. She is not going to take your precious games away from you. I don't agree with everything she says, and while she may be a bit of an extremist (although, only a bit; her ideas are basic level, frankly), if the end-goal of her campaign is to help the gaming community and industry become more accessible and inclusive for women, then I think that's great; and I do support Anita in that regard. Again, I don't always agree with her critiques, but she has a right to say it without the worry of rape threats and disgusting behavior from whiny man-children. Others don't have to agree, but please, boys: Don't be childish dicks. Anita is not going to take your precious controllers away from you. And FYI, people: If you don't like what Anita Sarkeesian says, you don't have to listen to her, you know. Gamers really need to grow up and stop being so childish over someone critiquing their games.
+RyanX1231 The only problem is that she is trying to cause real change where change is not needed. Having an opinion is one thing; forcing your opinion (that is backed up by faulty statistics, if any) down literally everyone's throats is another.
batman88891 Well, she's not really "forcing" an opinion down anyone's throats. She offers her views on various platforms, but I don't see it as forceful. Like I said, we can't really say that she's forcing something down our throats if we have the option to watch something else and not listen to her.
***** Well no, my point of her forcing it down people's throats is the fact that she openly tried to get the U.N. to conform to her ideas. If you just have an opinion and you accept that, you don't go to the U.N. and have a debate just for the lolz. She, along with Zoe Quinn (someone who I absolutely despise even more than Anita, simply because she tried so hard to be relevant to Gamergate even though she stopped being relevant almost immediately), tried to make anti-feminist (her version of feminist) posts illegal and classified as hate speech/harassment. Even just people trying to have a nice, healthy debate with her (which, the silent majority of anti-feminists, or at least anti-radical feminists are actually trying to do) would be illegal going by what she planned on doing. Anita won't back down and take no as an answer and will find any way to force her opinions down anyone's throat - assuming they disagree with her.
Man joe was tearing up a little near the end there. I don't blame him. When a man has to use the words "my lively hood" it's usually a very tough time in his career.
Really, feminism gets way too much hate. You wouldn't denounce the racial equality community, would you? People have the right to claim something is sexist, just like we have the right to claim something is racist, homophobic, or religiously intolerant.
Davis Moniz I do agree that she's a terrible choice for the face of the community, but the problem is those people who then try to say that the entire community is exactly like that, and that we're all stupid/corrupt/what have you. People like that really just bother me entirely.
+Sam Geuvenen At least Racial support groups aren't so split. Feminism has such a diverse split that one group has a completely different way of thinking that the other. Some want to fix the problems, some want to blame society standards, some want to attack men, and etc. Especially with groups that claim anything is sexist doesn't give Feminism a good name. And the thing is that this isn't a tiny group. This same radical group has a large following and some influence over games and media. Racial issues in media doesn't happen as often as Feminists claiming sexism across video games.
+Sam Geuvenen as an egalitarian myself i find it on that these feminazi's as i like ot call themselves are still doing the things they do its stupid around the world there are countries where feminism isnt a big thing and they have serius sexism problems e.g. places where women get stoned for having sex etc... and i think it would be much better if feminism focused on that or focused on famales getting into governmental jobs and things not gaming where allthough sexism definatly exists its not malicously sexist they just show perfected versions of the female characters they do the same with men though as well Nnathen drake and kratos being good examples of people maade to be perfect renditions of what a society views as cool or appealing. this uff happens but as long as you dont go on call of duty on xbox i have never heard real sexist comments on any servers of any games i have played allthough on the xbox it does happen lots 'the only reason it doesnt happen as much on playstion is as less people have mics probably. btw i play on pc where most gamers i know and games i play are played by women as well and a fair few are ops on servers and stuff so i dont think that gaming is overtly against females i think these feminazis should stop spewing there shit and focus on the bigger picture and takkle active sexism towards females/ sorry for grammer and spelling mistakes i mispelt a few words but fuck it im of to work in a minute
Yeah but when someone disagrees with you, without attacking or insulting or anything, just simply disagrees, and you label them sexist or a harasser, then you deserve any criticism you get.
You let Feminist like Anita to change the video game industry, you wont have games like God of War, Metal Gear Solid, The Witcher and the list goes on.
***** you have to be fucking inbred to think developers will let go of the testosterone filled games that have a huge demographic and therefore a huge posibility for profit
24:55 This is a HUGE misstep on Joe's part and one of the most poorly researched and represented issues he's ever tackled. This is a link to a video that COMPLETELY destroys Joe's terrible attempt at defending one of gaming's most toxic enemies. "Angry Joe's Defense of Anita REFUTED!" That's the exact title of the video. Its done by a guy named PrinceAsbel.
+Philip Paul You do realize that Joe doesn't agree with most all of Anita Sarkeesian's views right? He is simply asking us to stop being sexist and shit.
lolperk111 I don't know that he disagrees with anything she's been doing. He hasn't tweeted anything to that effect nor has he made a video about that subject. Also he didn't simply ask anything. He acted like a asshole to anyone who had a problem with her and made a video calling her on her shit. He was blinding himself to the obvious truth for the sake of being politically correct.
Philip Paul If you watch the video, Joe says that he doesn't agree, but he also says that's not the point. The point is that she is entitled to her opinion and shouldn't be receiving sexist remarks at all for having one that does not agree with gamers.
Philip Paul No, everyone is entitled to their opinion. Being entitled to your opinion means that you have your own opinion and you are free to support it because it is your opinion. Doesn't mean you have the qualifications to back up your opinion, sure, but still you can have an opinion on things. Another, I definitely agree that Anita is for the most part is over stepping her boundaries. However, it doesn't take a qualified gamer to say that some games are definitely objectifying women. That much I will say she has a point on, because it's true. But the point is that it isn't about the validity of her argument, it's that gamers should be able to defend themselves and prove her wrong WITHOUT calling her a whore like you just did. How would you like it if you were called a manwhore by tons of people whenever you have a differing opinion. Do those people calling you a manwhore strengthen their argument in ANYWAY by calling you stupid shit? I can't comprehend why on earth you are even trying to use those kind of words. You clearly want Anita gone and away from the Gaming community... Yet here you are fueling her cause. Anita is campaigning against objectification and sexualization of women. She has some shady af methods but it's pretty damn clear that she believes in her cause, no matter how misinformed. Calling her a slut or a whore only strengthens her cause. She's probably going to use it as an example of how Games are teaching men to sexualize women. Seriously, it's not helping.
+lolperk111 more accurately Anita has the right to voice her opinion but without any experience and knowledge its not a valid opinion for the topic ie. you dont ask the pizza dilvery man for advanced physics
Maia- San First off: what he's doing is, he's denying people their right to freedom of speech by telling them not to criticize her (using ridicule of the lowest form btw). Second, EVERYONE gets rape and death threats on the internet. Not everyone use it to play the victim card.
Pinhead Thorneberry see, you didn't have to talk like that. When the first thing that comes out is "fucking retarded" its no wonder some of the terribly misinformed in society look at "gamers" or even men like that.
I agree 100% on #3. Children and idiots like to attack the person in disgusting ways when they are too stupid to formulate an argument. She has some good points, some bad points, but god forbid we have an intelligent conversation about it.
Yup, but BF4 is also in my Top 10, simply because it's an abomination of glitches, crashes and netcoding... an AAA title shouldn't deserve such a low attention to detail.
Your defense of Anita is utterly ridiculous. Yeah, go ahead loyal fanbase, tell me how he is not defending her. I adore Joe as well, but this is just embarassing. It all indicates that she is a fraud, and yet he hasn't even criticized her. Instead, he criticizes the extremists who threaten her physically and pretends that we are just arguing that she is not entiled to her opinion. That is a gross misunderstanding. She can think whatever she likes, but the moment she requests an audience about all that *BULLSHIT*, then that becomes more than just her personal opinion. When she goes on to challenge and critique video games in the manner that she does, she may be entitled to what she thinks, but WE _also_ are entitled to our opinion about her hypocrisy and fraudulent misrepresentation of what video games are. She isn't challenging the status quo. She insults our intelligence, whether you're a developer or a gamer. She is attacking us, we are not attacking her. This is not about her taking our porn away. Ugh. Really, Joe? This is about her being a liar and a tool whose thesis is plainly wrong and offensive by any and all standards. If she is allowed to be offended, then I am allowed to be offended by her remarks as well. As a sidenote, come on man, what you said during the ending was extraordinarily silly. If you don't play video games, then you cannot critique them. If you haven't played battlefield 4, then you can't, all sincerity, make a review about it. That is _FRAUD_.
yes, and as i posted a few days ago, it is up to the UNITED STATES LEGAL SYSTEM! to investigate her over those alleged offenses, find her Guilty if she has commited them, and then Send her to Jail.. it is NOT up to US, the internet Public, to Punish her, it is up to the LEGAL professionals in her country!.. This is Not Hollywood and we are not the second coming of Charles Bronson, there is no room for vigilantism. also,, in case you have not done your research. Death Threats and Rape Threats, especially the latter!, of the kind She has Received are ILLEGAL under the United Nations Bill of Human Rights... INTERNATIONAL LAW! wich, basically, makes the people who made them even Bigger Criminals than you claim Anita to be!... I dont know about you, but defending people for attacking her when their attacks break INTERNATIONAL LAW! just strikes me as completely stupid and rather sick on top of that! Sure, maybe she has commited crimes, im not going to pujor myself by saying if she has,. or has not! But, the people who posted those threats HAVE commited Criminal Acts, and their posts are proof, and the only thing that Protects them from a good forty years in Jail is the Anonymity of the Internet. Maybe she doesnt deserve defending... but Neither do the people who made those threats! By supporting them, neo nazi Scum, the Detritus of the human race,.. as far as i am concerned, that actually makes you worse than Anita... Supporting a Confirmed! crime is as bad as commiting it yourself.. Remember, Anita's "crimes" are not confirmed, they are Alleged, a cockamamie conspiracy theory.. those Death and Rape threats, are a Fact! a Confirmed Crime. so dont support them, as that is as bad as doing them. Also. no matter how Disgusting you may find her, or the femenist cause...at the end of the day, that is STILL someones Little girl! It is Still a Human Being with a family! How would YOU feel if someone threatened your Daughter or Neice, or Sister, or whatever, with Death or Rape? put yourself in her families position before opening your keyboard next time, because i did, and i Hate Femenists with a passion! so whats your excuses people, eh? leave it to the US legal System, Punishing her is Their Job. not yours,. not mine.
You also have the right to be shit on, see isn't that fair and now we can all be happy. At the very least none of us are trying to get laws passed to silence the other side.
Anita is only in 10% of this video, but 80% of the comments! Joe was right. Just the mention of her name undermines anything else being said, and turns the comment section into a flame war.
+Krystian “Halucygeno” Podlaszewski I completely disagree with Anita but those death threats needs to stop. Then again, she needs to think hard on dealing with situations like this, because she confuses on normal criticism with harassment. Almost every single twitter posts involved with her complaining about criticism.
It is, google didn't give a shit about everyone's complaints.... They are probably going to do more shitty updates to the site later on. What a horrible company.
That's what happens when companies get bigger and bigger. In essence they stop caring about the people who got them where they are now. Their Customers.
Unfortunately, it may go that way because as they always say "It'll get worse before it gets better," but in this case, it may just get worse than it is right now. Once a company gets high on themselves upon becoming a bigger company, they do some of the most meaningless updates that do not need to be done for the sake of making it "better," but in reality the updates they have made have been useless and has fucked a lot of people up. They like to fuck their technical creators in the ass multiple times and as of now, it has just been getting worse.
_"No-one is ever going to take away your porn. No-one is ever going to take away our male power fantasies. No-one is ever going to take away those games with those ridiculously sexy and non-functional female armor designs."_ You are wrong, Joe. Look at the _Divinity: Original Sin_ artwork controversy, where the social justice warriors and moral guardians that the gaming journalists have become blackmailed the graphic artist into covering up the "ridiculously sexy and non-functional female armor design". So yes, the feminist justice warriors _do_ have an actual effect on video games. There is a _very real_ possibility that they will take away "our porn". (An argument may be raised on whether this is a good or bad thing, but my point is that you are wrong. It's not inconsequential. It really does have an effect, and your assessment is incorrect.) You might say that this is just a single, isolated case and that it will be soon forgotten. I really hope you are right.
_"No-one is ever going to take away your porn."_ Once again, Joe, you are completely wrong. Target Australia removed GTA5 from its catalog because of an online petition that claims that the game entices and rewards players for assaulting women. If you claim that this has absolutely nothing to do with Sarkeesian's videos, you are delusional. Joe, you are wrong. Sarkeesian's videos _do_ have an actual effect on the market. Yes, they _are_ "taking away our porn". Are you man enough to come out and admit that you were mistaken?
Sex Panther Target Australia (and in fact a few other stores there) took it away from their customers (and precisely for the reasons that Joe says wouldn't have such an effect). This may be just an isolated case that won't repeat, or it may be the start of a trend. When the complainers and their followers see that petitions do have an actual effect on these things, what do you think they will do? Do you think they will just be content with this one single success, or do you think they will keep doing it in the future? How many other people are going to follow in their footsteps?
I'm so sick of discrimination. Race, sex, political views, sexuality, it doesn't fucking matter, you're all people. No one is better than you and you're not better than anyone.
Piekartz I don't know much about her. This video is the first time I've heard about her, although I try not to judge anyone, I can't shake my hatred for discrimination. It's a really dumb thing, and i wish people would just realize how ignorant it makes them.
Andrew Valenti The issue is this: Anita is a fanatic with ridiculous ideas. And she is actually getting a stage. She judges feminism issues at Twitter, she talks at conferences. Sensible people take issue with this, a lot of sensible and intelligent people make videos who point out her stupidity, arrogance and dangerous ideas. But of course, there are also people who threaten her with violence. There are always idiots who do that. And it is wrong of course. Joe is generalizing everyone who has a problem with the work/ideas of Anita. He is presenting "us" as small boys who are afraid of her taking away our games. This generalization and rant is a result of a lack of research. Very misplaced. But let me repeat: death threats against anyone are despicable.
She's a fanatical zealot with an agenda and almost one million dollars in her back pocket which she gained through lies and misinformation. She's definitely one to watch out for. I'd be lying if I said I didn't admire her ability to manipulate people. The problem isn't that she's silencing offensive comments and concerned about threats made against her, that is more than reasonable and understandable. It's that she's also silencing any one who has legitimate criticisms of her viewpoint, which is why no one's ever seen her in any kind of debate (because she would be soundly defeated). If I were to say "Your information is wrong, what you're saying is a lie." On any of her forums or mediums, I'd probably get permabanned, or swarmed by her misinformed fanbase, and most likely labelled a 'sexist' for doing so.
+Andrew Valenti You sound like a really nice dude, really down to earth. You should really tell that to Anita, wait... nevermind her comment section is disabled.
Anita Sarkeesian isn't a feminist. She is using feminism to get rich. She knows nothing about feminism or its grass roots. She doesn't care, she took a noble and just cause and used it to gain attention and get rich. She doesn't care about what her "works" does or what she influences. What matters to her is the amount of money she can make off of it. She's been caught lying about being a gamer, she's been using feminism to get what she wants, which is sad because she actually set feminism back by 20 years. Her videos are extremely uninformed and she flat out lies about her subject matter just so she can seem like she's telling the truth. The problem with Anita is that she can't be trusted. She didn't use most, if any, of that money for what she said she would use it for, she used it for her own greedy gain. And the funny thing is that real feminist have called her out. If she really was about conversation she wouldn't have blocked comments and ratings on her videos, she's a straight lier.
let me add something... if shes a feminist shouldnt be fighting something more than just gaming... cause this exist everywhere... shes just making her profit out of it.. :/ what a loss
"She[Anita] is entitled to her opinion" So was Hitler. But seriously speaking - AngryJoe is full of shit here. 1. She IS trying to take away "porn and video games" - Her stance is CHANGE EVERYTHING TO MY LIKING! Look at what games she is addressing FFS - old ones, because damsel in distress is already used less and less. She, like all feminists, just want to make sure that world is tailored for her and no one else. 2. Most of what she says is load of shit. It's either cherry picking, misrepresenting something or plain obvious lie. [in one game she spoke about female character who sacrifices her life to enable defeat of boos - PATRIARCHY! In Prey - most emotional point in story - mercy killing your girlfriend - PATRIARCHY! HOW DARE STORY WRITERS SHOW WOMAN IN VULNERABLE POSITION! SHE SHOULD HAVE BEEN ONE DEFEATING ALIENS!] 3. Look at what lovely idea of "female friendly" game she came up! Woman kills men, big bad boss is men... Wait, isn't "let's kill men" way more obvious trope than "save princess"? Why not suggest game where woman is killing women? Oh right, because that would be "oppressive" and would teach kids to kill/beat up women (no one cares about men though). 4. Her all "criticism" is about money and victim card. 5. Locked comment section, not answering to any criticism. Sure shows how strong her points are. Also your point of "let's explore other kinds of stories" is bullshit - there are plenty of other kinds of stories. I have not played any damsel in distress games for last 6 years or so. And feminism IS plague. AND "I wish you died/got raped/ whatever" is not a threat. Game where you beat someone up - is not threat. Take a law book and check what threat is. Well done on white-knighting though.
Clearly that means she deserves to be spammed with hate, because saying that she should die and/or get raped defeats all her arguments single handedly. I do believe she wouldn't receive that much flak if it were about another video game subject other than feminism... The huge reaction from that is what spells out the problem. It doesn't matter what she said and why, what matters is people are taking her way too seriously. All of these comments saying "Omg Joe, you're full of shit, don't defend her! Gaaaaah!`" are all people that seriously put way too much thought into her and what she represents. Take a step back buddy, what does it matter? There's always people who believe in things you don't, who have controversial beliefs etc. Why do you have to feel so threatened by her existence? Why does she make you feel so angry? So she doesn't deserve ANY respect because of her opinions, as well as death/rape threats? Besides... you can't compare her to Hitler, you can't seriously think its the same situation. It's like you're saying her opinion will lead her to power where she'll invade the world and start a massive genocide of men. Like that's how much you perceive her as a threat... listen to yourself.
Soozi Darling "Did you really just compare Anita to Hitler" Where? There was no comparison. Not only you idiots do not know what "threat" is you kids do not know what "comparison" is too.
lifebarier Let me break it down for you... You wrote: " "She[Anita] is entitled to her opinion" So was Hitler." Your first statement was a comparison... You, at the most basic level, took Hitler's name and wrote that she was entitled to her opinion just like Hitler... Also, on top of that, your statement also strongly suggest you are implying that she IS like Hitler for her radical views, why else would you use his name in particular. If you deny it then I don't know what to say anymore. And stop it with all your semantics shenanigans. Your arguments are weaker than hers. Actually, you barely implied feeling threatened, I wanted to see your response to that, and you confirm it by showing that you fear she will change how games will be made. That you value freedom in video game design. That all she says are "lies and manipulation" Don't tell me I'm wrong about that one because that's really your main point. You are showing strong aversion to her because she threatens things you care about... But... all that being beside the point, I understand where you coming from, but what Joe is saying in the video really was more of a call for calm. Even Joe might have his opinion about the issue, he does show a bit of support but it's minimal, he's mostly saying, calm down it's ok, it's not that big of a deal she can say what she wants she doesn't need all that flak. And I agree, I don't think she threatens much, I don't think she'll affect developer's decisions as much as you think, besides, there are better and more constructive ways to disagree with her than by saying Joe is full of shit and that none of us know the meanings of a few words...
lifebarier I think you need to read up on the law. Legally, a threat is defined as a spoken/written word used to control/intimidate others. It is illegal to say "bitch i'll rape you". Which many gamers did do to Sarkeesian. The game is not a threat nor illegal but it is still offensive to that person.
I like Joe but I really get tired of female gamers being lumped in with Anita's stupidity as if her concerns are our own and that only the "sexist" males were mad. That the outrage was only cause she was female or that internet rage is suddenly new and super serious. Now yes, threats shouldn't be applauded but it also shouldn't silence those male and female who voiced legitimate concerns either yet somehow it keeps happening. Imagine if only the death threats and craziness Jack Thompson got were the narrative shown by the gaming mainstream, would that have been accurate of the community's disagreement? Cause thats what we have now with Anita on top of the constant pandering to her without debate or criticism. Its fucking stupid. Anita is just a feminist loon who already had odd views that she admitted got her lots of hate prior to 2012. This is the woman who made a list of creepy/sexist Christmas songs. She wasn't reasonable to being with but people have disagreed with her civilly despite not being acknowledged.
I don't see how being creeped out by a song that is clearly about date rape being an "odd view." It seems to be that if you think nothing is creepy about a song that implies a guy trying to spike a woman's drink, that is all the more evidence that feminism is still necessary, when people view non-consensual sex as "normal"
Kendall Raine I'm so sorry I forgot Christmas time is the rape season of the year because a 1930s song is left to be interpreted differently from Anita's feminist views. I'm just gonna leave you with this link that explains the different take on the song without 21st century connotations: persephonemagazine.com/2010/12/listening-while-feminist-in-defense-of-baby-its-cold-outside/
Oh god when you got to the Anita Sarkeesian part I had to stop the video right there because I think I lost a lot of respect for you. Anita is a scam artist and preys on the wallets of ignorant feminists and brainwashes them. She's not there to promote "alternative games"; She's there to make money. You of all people should know how disgusting it is for someone to do that. I never once felt uncomfortable playing a video game and I don't need someone telling me that I should "open my eyes" and feel inferior, weak or ugly instead of having fun with my fantasy world. In contrast imagine if a fat or skinny guy was playing a game with a really muscular and badass male character. Is someone going to tell the guys that they should feel imperfect and underpowered as well? protip: Only teenagers care about porn in games. Veteran adult gamers care about intricate stories and there are plenty of games with those. In overall nobody gives a fuck about rescuing a princess, people only want to have fun.
How in the world does anything of that - assumed it was true although you have no proof for it - justify comments like "I'll kill you" or "I'll rape you"??? Perhaps you should watch this video to really explore what is Joe's point on this topic instead of talking about your own opinion about Anita Sarkeesian. Writing harrassing comments and hate comments is just low and the people who wrote them should be ashamed of themselves. Nobody said that you can't critizise Anita but there is no justification for rape comments and death threats. Period.
TheLordCrash Did I ever say it was justifiable? My point was that Anita shouldn't be defended. I don't really give two fucks if she is getting rape and death threat comments that are just harmless comments; Because everyone gets them; And she uses them to get attention and play the victim. But that is besides the point. I was just criticizing Joe for defending the bullshit propaganda of Anita that promotes ignorance. There's people out there with real criticism and not just inane comments you know. Joe made it seem like everyone was trolling the oh so poor innocent girl.
I agree with Anita on some of her points about video games, I do often think women are overly victimised in games and I do think that that needs to change to some extent. As much as I love the classic hero rescues princess story (Zelda is my life) I see no harm in a call to mix it up a bit and give women a more dynamic roll in mainstream videogames, or in mainstream media in general for that matter
Luna is very correct here. For some reason, whenever a woman is aesthetically pleasing, it's a SEXIST MALE FANTASY. But when a guy is ripped, it's a power fantasy. What the hell are we supposed to do? Make games about women where the men who play games can't project themselves into the character?
See Joe u made this video with that evil woman in it .. trying to be her white knight and now we have the last of us part 2 ..she is hurting games more than helping it .
People didn't get pissed off because Anita was talking about it; they got pissed off because of HOW POORLY she gave her point. There's a difference between criticism and exaggeration. Criticism is good; lazy explanation is NOT criticism, it's a rant.
I don't think iv ever disagreed with Joe on anything more than Anitas videos. Dont get me wrong; I fucking love Joe, self confessed fanboy over here. BUT he has missed the entire point as to WHY gamers are upset with feminist frequency. Right or wrong (and almost provably wrong) her opinions are MISREPRESENTING gamers. Shes making us all look like sexist fools and I for one, as someone who strives for both equality and "games as art" am disgusted by her.
Yeah i agree with you buddy, only that this cause dosen't make us look any better because of that other games sends her emails with threats about either killing or raping her! I must say that all that makes us gamers look sooo much better, high five gamers! You f***king morons!! It just came up for me, i and probably few others are a part of a community filled with idiots, freaks and morons! Hahahah it's redicules, people do actions before they think... It's a shame, it's just a fucking shame! Jesus what is wrong with people actully? There is something called kindness and grown up talks. It's better to talk like grown ups instead of coming with stupid, dumb sounding and insulting emails and comments! I mean look at me, i'm just a 16 year old, barley expirinced life! And i am smarter and more grown up than many of the fools in this so called gamer community of ours! :p It's just too funny!
His point is wether shes misrepresenting gamers whatever she still has the right to her opinion. In this world we live in there are no rights or wrongs, just opinions. You could tell me the sky is blue but there is no proof it is. We should all be allowed to express whatever opinion we wantwithout persecution from anything or anyone. You can disagree and state your case but people flagging her shit and threatining her is way more destructive than what she represents. Hes just saying no matter what she says money rules over opinion, nothing will change
daniel andre Verkland To be clear i dont agree with the threats but i understand them. If you go on the internet and start putting out content your getting get shit no matter what it is. Its worse in her case because shes a lying, manipulative bitch whose both misrepresenting gamers and playing the victim and i'm not sure which one pisses me off more. Yes, the death threats are terrible BUT shes almost doing something worse by USING them for media attention. She doesnt understand that the threats arent based on gender or discrimination, shes being harassed because shes been caught as a lying moron.
cuda861 I couldn't disagree more. I find the whole "Well thats your opinion" statement to be a dismissive argument for people who lack the brains or the balls to fight for or prove something they believe in. If you fight for something and get proven wrong, fine, so what? You learned something; but if everyone went around saying "well thats your opinion" nothing would move forward. To use your example, someone could say "The sky isnt blue, thats your opinion" you should retort. "No, its blue, use your common sense and cognitive senses and you'll see its blue because the light reflecting off our blue oceans gets caught in our atmosphere and reflects creating the image of a blue sky." You can believe something till your blue in the face but if your PROVEN wrong then what? Your delusional if you believe in something thats been proven wrong.
Cuda861, what the hell are you talking about? No rights and wrongs? Tell me was it right by Hitlers side that he got millions of people killed? Is it right that we white people came to america and drove the indians out of THEIR lands? Is it right that people kills other human beings just for a stock of money? Is it right that owners to their pets are wounding and misstreating the animals? Is it right that many, many humans work as slaves in slavery? Is it right that men are raping women and that women are raping men? Is it right that grown ups are raping small children? Is it right that people are kidnapping other people just to abuse them? Is it right that people are stealing from each other even despite for that they could have survived without that? Is it right that many workers in the goverment is using their power just to get things their ways? NO!!!! None of this are right! Start opening your other eye man and start see how the world really works. Opinions comes before actions. Take the raping of children as an example. Those grown ups can run around and HAVE THAT opinion of that there is nothing wrong about raping children but when they first do it. It's wrong, it's shamefull and disgracefull! Anyway if there are some grown ups running around thinking that it's ok raping children then there is something totally wrong about their heads! To be honest... Anyway there are only opinionsnin this world until those opinions start taking action and it's the actions who works out in the end it it's right or wrong to do so. This is not my opinion, this is something all us sane human beings share wich means all the bad things up there NOT are right but TOTALLY wrong. Only brain damaged people and such like belives that this things up there are right. Wich means there are lots of rights and wrongs in this world because opinions are just opinions, but it's the actions that speak for the opinion and shows if it's right or wrong. So what i just wrote now is not a opinion, it's right truth shining on all human beings that every person should look up to and follow. Thank you very much.
Mog Gles I think he just made the mistake of being gullible, it's right to be against sexism what is wrong is being against it where there none and lying about it being there. I will assume he just wanted to also play the white knight and just blindly spouted the most PC/friendly he could think of ("sexism is bad guys, m'kay!!"). I don't think it warrants all the things you threw at his face though...
Mog Gles at what point did i say i didn't like video games? and i was not intending to portray any image, its my honest opinion, ask before you attack somebody (if that ain't to much to ask these days).
Mog Gles you are right, there is a long list of things that make people sick, including me, i was just say sexism makes me sick as it was relevant to the video.
Anita is wrong. Outright wrong, and her whole damn show is wrong, because it acts like women are these massively oppressed people when they really aren't anymore. Anyone who tries to be openly sexist ends up jobless. They are ludicrously protected. You still shouldn't be going around making death and rape threats. That's just not cool. EDIT: and if your wondering, yes, I've had a girlfriend, I'm not some asshole who don't care about what women think. I hate what stupid people think. I am totally for good writing, which does include better written female characters obviously, that does not mean I'm for feminists in any way.
Women in Saudi Arabia are banned from driving. They're arrested for arrested for being topless in Britain. Never been President in USA. 9 out of 10 rape victims are women. Cannot have control over their own bodies (abortion) around the world like Republic of Ireland and USA. Millions are told or forced to cover up their heads and bodies (Conservative Muslims). I could go on, but what's the point? You clearly either ignore facts or ignorant to them. But get this, being openly sexist in your workplace is NOT the extent of sexism in this world.
man, im brazilian and bacame a subscriber of your channel for a couple of months, since then im watching all your videos and admiring your work, i was sharing your channel with many friends who likes this type of content cause the way we can relate to you not as professional journalist but as dude who likes video games and movies with your friends and stuff, a everydude ahahhhaha and i see in this video you backing up us brazilian players with that situation of the ps4 price, MAN THIS IS RIDICULOUS ps4 in brazil costs 3 folds of the minimum month wage thanks joe!!
the minimum brazilian wage per month is 788 reais, exchange rate of British pounds today are 5 reais for 1 pound, i dont know the details to calculate minimum wage per day but dividing 788R$ per 30 days is something like 26 reais per day, i think it may be 5 pounds per day and can be worse ahahha cause most of products in brazil are imported and with high taxes, one product can be much more expensive in brazil than in england :( for example with 5 reais you only can buy one bootle of 600ml of average beer ahahha
I think that whole Anita Sarkeesian was just a train wreck in the making from the start. Look I have no issue as a gamer with someone wants to talk about issues they have with the culture. The issue I have is if someone paints with such a broad brush, is there sexism in gaming...yes, but what about society in general. Look do I think we need more female character that are strongly developed and don't fall into stereotypes, of course. But doesn't excuse that someone from attack something that they aren't familiar or refuse to give a fair and honest discussion. I am also sad by the reaction towards this woman, if you have an issues...don't go off the deep end with such disturbing attacks, speak up in a calm rational manner.
toasatoshi It's a shame that some people can't speak out their thoughts in such a way. Many of these people take self-entitlement to an extreme and ruin the chances of discussing an interesting topic that I personally would have been happy to share opinions on…. I'm glad to know that rational minds think alike, it's a shame there's too few of them.
LOLOL "I don't flag videos" Says the guy who got his career ruined from being exposed flagging EVERYTHING he possibly could. LOLOL. I didn't know it was Mundane Matt in this clip. That is fucking AMAZING. LEGENDARY.
I like Joe cause he calls it as it is. ( death threats and trolling= bad), but he opened himself up to criticism for glossing over why Anita garners such hate, and glossing over the fact that she has been debunked and shown up for the fraud/con-artist she seems to be.
I agree with Joe on many things but with Anita I am gonna have to draw the line, there is plenty of reasons why people dislike her. She is intellectually dishonest, silences anyone who dare challenges her arguments, conned thousands of idiots out of 160,000 dollars, stole videos from other youtubers and gave them no credit what so ever, is not actually a gamer as she herself has admitted and much more. She also has made bad points that can easily be refuted and avoids debates for this reason. She sees a person approaching her wanting a calm and rational debate she will make a 180 and run away like a bat out of hell. There is a reason why she refuses to debate with anyone, as she knows her arguments would be picked to pieces. I can tell Joe has barely glanced the opposing side of this debacle and made assumptions, mainly based on conjecture. All Joe needs to do is look at some youtube videos on the opposing side and see that they raise very good points about Anita's arguments and just how flawed and poorly researched they were, but I guess not even Joe is capable of being politically incorrect when Feminism is involved. Its because of all that I mentioned here and much more is the reason why the gaming community has a bone to pick with Anita, hell even most female gamers hate her guts and that is saying something. I thought Joe of all people would have been able to see through this, but sadly he left me disappointed. Oh and as many others have pointed out, men are sexualized too not just in video games but in the media in general. How many guys do you know have the physique of Kratos from God of War? There is tons of male video game characters that are super handsome and have bulging muscles, and many other masculine traits that are considered attractive. One of many facts that people like Anita overlook (many times intentionally) on a daily basis. I really wished you researched this a lot more before forming an opinion Joe, there is more to this than what you currently think.
yea but even so, she doesnt deseve death threats and people saying they are going to rape her, which was kind of his point, so thats what he was focusing on, and if that wasnt apparent in those types of comments he saw, I feel he still made a good argument. Not saying I disagree with you about Anita, because I don't, but since he was talking more about how over the top peoples reactions were, I still feel it was a good argument.
While I understand the hatred, and I do understand why she should be disliked and criticized and that she does need to be silenced. But, I think the biggest thing he was attacking was the death and rape threats/comments people were making. I mean, come on, really? Sure, she's ignorant, selfish, etc. But honestly, that's taking it too far.
Wolf Gaming To quote another youtubers excellent comment: "While I will agree that the backlash against Sarkeesian was insane, Joe completely ignored why there was a backlash in the first place. Instead he pretty much said that anyone that disagrees with her is a child. I couldn't disagree more. The backlash happened because she tried to impose classic feminist censorship on video games by trying to stamp out everything she sees that offends her." To further elaborate: Joe has criticized the opposing side for trying to silence her while also failing to realize that she does the same exact thing. Any attempt to establish dialog between her and the opposing side, she will try to shut down by any means necessary. Any attempt made on her channel to criticize one or several of her points regardless of how calm or rational it may be, is met with the comment being removed and their channel blocked. Course this obviously leads to her pissing people off even further. I believe what angers people more than anything is that she won't let the other side be heard. The only way they can voice their side is by making youtube videos, to which she never responds to. There is several people that would kill for the chance to debate her publicly. Additionally she nit picks the "evidence" she presents to represent the other side and their conduct. Calm and rational people such as you and me she is not interested in. She wants angry, crazy people. She then takes "evidence" of those crazy people, point to it and say this is what the other side looks like. Have I said she is intellectually dishonest? In a nutshell those crazy people only account for a minority but Anita and Joe both are making them out to be the majority.
see shit like you ....grow up and calm down kid it seems you don't even know what joe is saying ,he's talking about the people's reaction and disgusting things they said to her not defending Anita herself use your little brain son
Joe don't think long videos Like these aren't going to be watched from start to finish, you can keep me focused on this for each second and that's like it for every of your videos. Keep it like that man! :) 2013 with you was incredible! Even when I was watching live conferences seeing your Tweets at the same time made it feel so much more connected and personal. Can't wait to see what's going to happen this year.
i know i completely agree with what your saying while she may be full of shit and have many problems at least people can be civil about it its HER OPINION and we should respect it not threaten her with rape and murder!
its amazing how many people are misconstruing Joe's arguments about Anita. He doesn't agree with what she does but argues she has the right to an opinion. Regardless of how terrible that opinion is, thats all it will ever be, a fucking opinion. So the amount of hate, death threats, rape threats and such like is completely out of line. If you disagree with her that is completely fine, just be civil about it.
+kingraj333 very well said. sadly by just reading the comments i just get depressed by the state of the gaming community, fortuantely i find yours. thank you for using a bit of rationality
Dumy Jobby i find it sad as well. it seems the gaming community is just growing more and more close-minded and easily offended. I find it really distasteful.
Anita is just one of those people that know nothing and take her opinions SO FAR as to attract so much hate from people who disagree.. thats the price for sharing your opinion on the internet, especially one like this.
Anita does know what she's talking about because she does a great deal of research on all of the topics she discusses. She backs up her opinions with facts about geek culture in general and it's history. Not only that but she discusses her opinions in a constructive manner. She never insults her audience or blames them for liking the things she finds offensive. All she is doing is providing a different perspective on video games. So attacking her seems out of line and outrageous. She is just a person reviewing gaming, and she has the right to post it online without getting harassed. Just like Angry Joe has the right to post this video online without getting similar treatment, too.
Heather N Except she doesn't research her opinions. What you are watching when viewing her videos is conformation bias. She starts off with the conclusion that games are sexist, then she LOOKS for examples in whatever she can find to back up her preconceived notions. When you perform research, you make a hypothesis, then you experiment and/or research, collect data, review and summarize the data, and develop the conclusion. And she is dishonest to boot. Remember that whole Dino Planet thing she was complaining about? That it was Crystals game, but was rehashed to That god awful Star Fox game to star a male character, and she used this as an example of developers ignoring or abandoning female leads? Well, funny how she never mentions Crystal's brother who was supposed to star with her, while she edited the trailer and gameplay footage to only ever show Crystal. This is the reason why people hate Anita, because she is twisting this shit around to fulfill a victim spotlight to gain sympathy.
dragonheart967 Unfortunately, it is impossible for any kind of media to not be sexist. I don't particularly like how males are represented in some games, and I feel that is an affront to me, sure. But then, that is my opinion, and whether or not there are facts behind it, it doesn't change the fact that what I perceive to be sexist is different to how someone else perceives something to be sexist. As such, I trust the words of someone called "Feminist Frequency" as much as I would someone called "Women are Shit." It seems unhinged.
Daemoshiin Belmont You would need to give examples of what you think men are shown to be portrayed in ways that may be sexist, because from what I have seen, a surprising amount of people continuously misuse the term sexism. Exploitation and sexualization of any character regardless of gender is not sexism, they are exploitation and sexualization. For something to be sexist, it would need to be a clear or subtle dislike of the gender as a whole, such as intentionally making all female characters unbearable bitches and just outright terrible portrayals of what a female character would act, and the same goes for male characters as well. When we clear this mix in vocabulary up, we see that not everything people claim is sexist are sexist thing, what we see are just negative aspects to characters or the use of popularized norms of our culture within given areas(our culture isn't 100% the same all over the country, some areas are just plain different than others).
Except Anita's oppinions are largely (this is coming from a girl, not a man) wrong and she using various tactics to confuse her viewers. Things she has shown were taken out of context by a large degree and the way she words her observations are confusing and made to mislead. Also she dissed Fem!Shep, who is the better Shepard in Mass effect. If anything, Male Shepard is a Mrs. Man, cause he's horrible. His voice actor is lack luster in all three games and it really grates on the mood. All the lines are pretty much the same, and Fem!Shep's voice actress out shined him. Also, Fem!Shep has the better romance option, which is Garrus. Tali was cute, but she couldn't compare to the romance with Garrus. It could have been just as good, but again, Male!Shep's voice actor was lack luster and it damaged the charm.
I loved maleshep voice actor just as much as femshep. 'Well bang okay?' I mean, yeah he can be a little lackluster at times, but at the same time Femshep can be too cliche/corny in some moments that made me cringe during the games. However no one is perfect and I love them both and I do realize that it's mostly preference based.
It's honestly funny. Had this been Jack Thompson things would be different. Angry Joe would have laid into this guy and not even once care about the harassment and death threats he's received.
+Jo Vonn Or just telling people to stop being children and dicks making death threats over the internet. Regardless of someone's opinion, death threats are NEVER warranted.
Jo Vonn Who said that? If you paid attention in the video that was never once said. All he did was condemn the children making the threats and their childish tantrums.
They did, and it was sadly a resounding "Fuck you". Google it, they officially released a response and they essentially told us "things are going as planned".
Man, all of the comments below talking about Joe "betraying" gamers to defend and white knight for Anita. At a time like this, I'd like to quote a famous philosopher named Voltaire explain what Joe is talking about: "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
I am rather certain Voltaire would have been on our side, considering Anita is a scam-artist whose rights would have been forfeit in revolutionary days.
True. He'd take our side against her arguments, but he'd be perfectly apt in defending her from death and rape threats. Which should never be sent to anyone, at all.
But the thing with the blatant lies and nonsense arguments is that they can be debunked without threatening physical harm. But I understand what you mean by this is the internet.
Lord Alkair exactly. Nonsense arguments can be easily debunked with basic facts. There are even CZcamsrs like Shaun, hbomberguy, etc., that make entire videos debunking nonsense arguments. Threatening physical harm is a horrible, horrible thing that shouldn't be done. Have those who do that never heard of treat others the way you want to be treated? Not only is it horrifically immoral, it is also immensely ineffective and makes thing harder for those who just want to debunk nonsense arguments. As someone who dislikes The Last Jedi for legitimate reasons like plot issues, worldbuilding issues, issues in character development, etc., I have found it almost impossible to discuss these things, because of people who spout sexist and racist garbage about the film. Why is it difficult? The people who do that are somehow far more vocal, and I, by sole virtue of disliking The Last Jedi, get lumped in with them and ignored.
You think she is a professional victim? How do you know that the people who were attacking her were spreading rumors only to spread more hate? Scam artist? She just expressed her opinion and a ton of trolls on 4chan needed a new target to pick on. People chose to harass her, but even more people chose to help her. Yes, she said that she has been playing video games since she was 5. Yes, she said that she isn't a fan of video games and doesn't play them in that one video. Have you ever thought that maybe she meant that she started playing video games when she was 5, but didn't play every single day, week, month, or year? Maybe she wasn't interested in the newer games because she saw the lack of good female characters to look up to and rarely came back to see if the industry has changed for the better. If something bothers you, then you can either ignore it and move on or try to do something about it. That's why she made videos and wanted to do a project. She loved video games and wanted to come back to it, so she wanted to do something about it. Even if you do not like someone's opinion or their methods, you should not let it bother you. That's why I don't give any traffic to those CZcams personalities who are only there to harass her. There's no point. Why people do the same with her if that's how they feel? I respect Angry Joe because he's defending someone who is wrongfully being harassed and threatened. It's like that one person who is defending their classmate when the entire class is bullying that classmate just because that classmate is smart, or someone decided to spread nasty rumors about them because of that...I was that classmate once...and I didn't have someone to defend me. I guess I just relate.
If you don't feel like reading, let me summarize: rumors make her look bad, and Angry Joe is defending her against all of those trolls and bullies. I'll defend her too, because it's disgusting how terribly the gaming community reacted to her videos and opinion. And here I thought the gaming community was improving...
Briane Nelom To be honest they don't like her because she was too harsh on the Trope vs women and its characters on DiD. reviewers should atleast be subtle, fair and honest about the things they present. The case of A.S. that it was't shown fairly between sexes, her opinion wasn't presented well, lack of acknowledgement stories, bias among play options with game-play, bias among gaming characters(including strong females) and sexism of the gaming community. When a community feels theaten or misinterpreted they will respond in an equal or more amplified response
RaymondTr3 I understand. If she has presented her information in a wrong way, be it being biased or not explaining things well, then pointing that out and expressing it is fine. However, death threats and all the unnecessary demonizing of her is not at all a good way to express those points. I understand counter arguments, but hours of rants just because of how much of a (insert insult here) she is isn't right. I never thought that the game community would show such an ugly side in the form of an actual cyber mob.
Briane Nelom Apologies for the wait, I have been preoccupied with other things which came to my attention. "You think she is a professional victim?" Yes, yes I do. There is no need for a massive, sprawling text about this, when you have the ability to view the multitude of videos on this subject if you please. :D "How do you know that the people who were attacking her were spreading rumors only to spread more hate?" You seem to confuse legitimate criticisms with trolling. This is a common defense of feminists, being that you write off actual criticism as just "hate". "Scam artist?" Yes, she made 160 thousand dollars in a kickstarter to use for "research" on videos; not to mention the fact that she makes like what? Two videos a year. That has to be some good research. There has been substantial evidence (hint hint, that video were she specifically says that she does not like video games, hint hint) that she does not play video games, and it is evident from her speeches that she knows nothing about them. "Yes, she said that she has been playing video games since she was 5." Refer to previous comment, and even if she did, she still knows nothing of the industry. I play football (soccer) and yet I couldn't tell you more than four Football teams and only one or two of the players. ". Have you ever thought that maybe she meant that she started playing video games when she was 5, but didn't play every single day, week, month, or year?" No... not at all. That statement resembles those priests who attempt to misconfigure and twist those horrible quotes in the Bible into something positive. "Maybe she wasn't interested in the newer games because she saw the lack of good female characters to look up to and rarely came back to see if the industry has changed for the better. " Okay then. "If something bothers you, then you can either ignore it and move on or try to do something about it. " No, it doesn't bother me at all that imbeciles such as you blindly follow a figure such as her. Lets see...... blind following of leader.... voracious attacks against opposition, regardless of them having legitimate points..... historical revisionism..... huh, this seems like Fascism. Or is it Modern Feminism? I mix up the two a lot due to their similarity. Also, your same logic can be applied upon yourself. "That's why she made videos and wanted to do a project." No.... no.... she saw how gullible people are, and wanted to cash in on it; perhaps, just perhaps, she started off believing in her irrational principles, but that is far from the case today. "Even if you do not like someone's opinion or their methods, you should not let it bother you. " I have no idea why you keep rambling on about this. Is that how you view criticism? "I respect Angry Joe because he's defending someone who is wrongfully being harassed and threatened." Is it right to threaten someone? No. But is being passed off as the inciters of these threats are somehow representative of all those against feminism. That, and I love how she chickened out at the mere mention of violence; if I truly believed in a principle, one which was so important supposedly, and my life were to be at stake if I were to speak, I'm pretty sure I'd still speak. Her actions show how much devotion she has to your movement. " It's like that one person who is defending their classmate when the entire class is bullying that classmate just because that classmate is smart, or someone decided to spread nasty rumors about them because of that" That isn't a particularly comparable set of analogies, at least in my mind. This comment will probably just either be censored by Google or you.
the CZcams thing... not really a gaming controversy; it's kind of an all-media controversy. Let me ask you, Joe; if Sarkeesian is entitled to her grossly misrepresenting and extremely misleading points based entirely on half-truths and conjecture, why aren't her detractors entitled to their dissent? Is dissent only valid one way? You make no sense here. Sure, it's absolutely stupid to endorse violence against her, but her detractors have a legitimate point here; if she's not really connected to gaming, isn't really a fan, and doesn't do proper research to back her theories up, is it really fair to have her theory be the only one that gets the spotlight? She's not out to better gaming, you know. Many WOMEN disagree with her stance, and you seem to ignore that fact. Get feminism out of gaming, it's not doing the art form a lick of good, and it never will.
Just make all the male characters look like Edward Cullen, or have 'em be muscular, waxed and well-oiled but they only wear a thong. Have the females rescue them while they lie around in provocative positions. Then no one can complain. While I think her article went a bit too far, stating that everything she said is inaccurate and untrue, is fallacy. If it wasn't guys wouldn't complain that their girlfriends won't game with them, and there would be a lot more females gaming and having fun with the guys without hiding their gender. Guys want their male power fantasies in their games, I get it. There's nothing wrong with that. There is also nothing wrong with having more games that step outside of that mold either. There is definitely a lot wrong with how many gamer guys treat women they encounter in games. I hear guys all the time say "I wish more girls gamed!" make the hobby more accessible to women and make the community more welcoming and a lil less Neanderthal and girls will game with you. You might like it.
HarukoZ001 It's already inclusive. My wife enjoys a wide variety of videogames, and doesn't feel the need for them to be ''girlied up' for her. She's an avid RPG gamer, and the genre has a plethora of strong female characters. The problem is, Anita is ignoring that and pointing a spotlight on popular games such as Mario and Zelda to make it seem as though the industry is 100% anti-woman. It's heavily misrepresenting the facts to make it seem like it truly is a problem! Whatever happened to artistic license? How can we possibly call videogames an artform if we're going to work towards censoring it?
He says in the freaking video that people are free to disagree with her. He says himself that he doesn't agree with a lot of what she says...so what's the point of your question? Don't you even watch videos properly anymore?
I'm glad you gave respect to Fish and understood the stress of developing an independent game. It's a good thing there are people who don't just look at phishy and say "FUCK YOU!".
Prophet Tenebrae True words... the storm that followed the gamespy video even had people trashe her because of that persons sexchange... how is that related to the Gta V review at all. This is sadly something I look upon as a stockholmsyndrom combined with sentiment that I bought, I invested therefore its the best game of the year, and anyone saying otherwise is wrong and needs to be silenced. Its also he mentality; this game, its my favourite franshise anyone talking bad about it need to shut upp... Look at it as a footballsupporter but change teams to corporations... they are always right and flaweless and these people defend everything about them. It gets to a lvl where people outright want to hurt you for saying anything else. Its dangerous and Ive seen this mentality transfer from entertainment unto ideologies, religion etc. You get to a point where you become blinded by what you consider right and what you hate to a degree where you cant step back and think. Its a shame we see it explode onto the internet, and its sad that people are like; its the internet so its ok. I should never be ok to behave like this, never!
the gross overreaction comes from HER gross overreaction of videogames. like thousand of videos, stories and reviews men are as objectified as women. men dont care, and so should women, she is MAKING A LIVING OF SUCKING THE THOUGHTS OF THE IDIOTIC PEOPLE WHO FOLLOW THE FEMINISTIC MOVEMENT. she is attacking a complete social base. and when noticed all the hate/success she had, she continue to harvest the idiocy of both, feminist and angry gamers. she, like pewdiepie, just earns money out of idiots.
1 No 2 No, they aren't (just think about that statement for 1 second) and feminism is important for society, 3 What social base ? 4 What's up with all the pewdiepie hate ? 5 How old are you?
josan14basket no what? if you have an argument, state it, dont just say "no." the gamers social base (huge fucking base) i dont hate pewdiepie, i just state what i see he is one intelligent businessman, im 21 why is it relevant, or are you implying my thoughts are immature?. ps. i should have added that i dont condone those idiotic commentary and threats towards Anita.
lasarousi AMEN!!! That is how media works. Find peoples trigger, and pull it. Howard Stern proved how well that worked before most of us were born. Feminism relies completely on telling women they are a victim of something, to the point that women in record numbers are now medicated, fearful and angry believing that the world of men owe them something more than what we have given, and men all over are now afraid to approach women with proper male libido for fear of being labeled a creep for being attracted to a girl, leaving young incapable of starting romantic relationships with women. Every girl now has a dozen "guy friends" and each one of those guys thinks that by being a friend to her, that she'll want to start a relationship with him, while she secretly waits for a the right guy to come along. Feminism is poisoning romance. My life with women became a million times better when I started saying to feminism.
lasarousi Calling feminist morons is a really dumb statement. Men OBVIOUSLY don't get 0.1% the objectification women get specially in games .What fucking gross overreaction of videogames. The thing they wrote were unjustifiable.
I'm SO GLAD you mentioned the controversy over Anita Sarkeesian and her Tropes vs Women's video, and I'm SO glad you're against the backlash! I was waiting for you to say something about it, because you NEEDED to mention it, especially since a LOT of gamers follow your show and can listen to you. You explained the controversy PERFECTLY well: it's not about agreeing with her videos or not, but about the awful and ignorant reactions some people have towards the video, and those people seeing it as the normal or right thing to do. So far, this is the best defense of Sarkeesian's videos I've seen. YOU ROCK!
TheRexRider Seems you are probably one of the idiots who flamed or would flame Anita Sarkeensian or whatever her name is. Westboro Baptist would be comparable to her if she actively went out to attack and/or demoralize male gamers so your sarcasm is invalid and unappreciated.
vividvandal And it seems you are one of those idiots that defend her without looking at any of her videos. She does exactly that, so your "rebuttal" is invalid and unappreciated.
The only thing I disagree with about his section on Anita Sarkeesian was when he said that no one can take away porn. He should have a chat with David Cameron.
Daniella Dahoui While I do agree that the overdramatic backlashing against Anita is unecessary at the least, there's still the case of how the money Anita got from her kickstarter has been put into use. Its been proven in her videos that she doesnt do the research on the games she features and that she uses gameplay clips without crediting them to their respective owners. There's also her claiming in a number of her interviews that she says to be a fan of gaming but in one particular video clip she admits otherwise and on her twitter claims to have a love-hate releationship to gaming. So there's still some missing pieces there that people seem to overlook in regards to her character and what she stands for.
I will start by saying that everyone that's an online public figure will get a degree of harassment and death threats. That is an unfortunate reality of the internet. Now, Anita probably did get more than the average public figure, but it wasn't because people hate women or are afraid of her. Firstly, she is wrong, causing a good deal of legitimate criticism at her nonfactual arguments. But secondly, she picked a fight. Her videos aren't just criticisms, they are insults. She goes out of her way, not only to point out games she doesn't like, but she accuses the audience of these games of being bad people with insidious thoughts. She begged a fight and got one. Are the rape and death threats ok, no. But is that anger unfounded? Also no. She brought this on herself and there is no one else to blame. Hell, she keeps doing it because its a great bread winner for her. She got on the Colbert Report basically on the back of having slapped someone and then called abuse once she got punched back.
Nah, you're wrong. If a girl dresses lightly, does she ask for someone to rape her? No If a girl "insults" men's dominating part of video games, then does it mean that people are free to threaten her to death? NOO! Because then, we become the idiots too! If we'd keep quiet with the insults, *she'd* be the only idiot in this case, but ignorant assholes makes *us* the idiots instead - and that is the main problem here.
Plexy347 I strongly believe anita did deserve it; liars and incompetent idiots who can't seperate "muh feelings" from their logic deserve no mercy, but that's my personal opinion. Also a girls who dresses sluty isn't deservant of rape, but not wearing provocative clothing *is a precaution against that* as rapists have been proven to have certain tendacies. If you leave your wallet on the ground in a bad neighborhood, does it deserve to be stolen? No, but it's still a dumb move on your part and you'll probably be ridiculed for it. Same logic applies, if anita wants to make such bold foundless claims on a multi-million person community, you'd best be prepared for a backlash. Regardless of "morals" the internet has always been harsh on stupid. The only sexism that really is present is benevolent sexism, this uproar was never made when people made flash games about *killing not just bruising* Jack Thompson, or how people literally ran Phil Fish out of the gaming industry. Did people cry sexism against them? If anything she made a career out of other suckers sympathy, she's nothing but a sensitive little bitch who couldn't handle "criticism". :)
Joe I come from the future, and I have a grim message about Battlefront...
It gets worse
@@YOUROXJACK this is so trippy lol. Wtf is life
I come to you from an even further future to respond that DICE choose wisely after their second Battlefront game had a disaster of a launch. After the backlash the devs decided to listen to the fan feedback and I would argue the current Battlefront game in my time surpasses the original. I literally played both the 2017 and 2005 Battlefronts back to back to test this and although I did enjoy playing the 2005 game, its starting to show its age, at least in my time.
I'm from the further further further future. The mandalorian is gonna be a show that's really good
I come from further in the future. rise of skywalker is garbage. EA made a good game (jedi fallen order) and i want them to develop more silgle player star wars games free of microtransactions.
Also to add more to Sarkesian. Anyone who gets 100.000 dollars to make videos after she asked for it and then goes around doing fuck all on youtube for weeks kinda deserves a shitstorm on their head. Again death threats and rape threats are not fine but seriously it's not unsurprising people would get pissed off.
That's the disgusting part. It was "unsurprising".
I really really hate and disagree with Anita's opinion, but I would NEVER send death threats or take threats or ANY threats to someone with an opinion.
Spartan Prime Tell that to the people who sent her different kinds of threats and screamed "fuck you" in her face because of her assertions/agenda
Miguel L Then that's what they think
EXACTLY, I don't get why people have done that against a girl who has an opinion... DOES IT MATTER FUCK NO DOES THE INSULTS MATTER FUCK NO, but she has an opinion, and everyone who has sent a threat is FUCKING STUPID.
also does anyone know that ducking is a word?
+Joey Anderson wow I didn't know that
Joey Anderson What does the word "ducking" mean?
It’s incredible to see how the same concerns Joe talks about in these early lists are just as prevalent in 2021.
17:54 hits real different in a post-Battlefield 2042 lol
It’s now 2024 and the same problems still exist
Angry Joe, I'm a woman and many of us are angry about what Anita spreads. She does not represent gaming women. Please don't put her on a pedestal when even real feminists feel coned by now, because the videos that she makes are full of false information and not the research and smart topics that we were promised.
i dont think he was putting her on a pedestal. what he was saying was that, no one deserves the rape and death threats she has been getting. thats all.
in fact, i did some research. many of the posts those trolls have made against her actually break the UN charter of Human Rights... International Law.
now, dont get me wrong, im not defending anitas opinions or politics at all, let alone support them, as i dont support them at all, i have many personal issues with the cause she represents! and i dont see how someone who doesnt play the games she talks about can actually have an opinion on them as she doesnt have the context.
i just agree with joe that, she doesnt deserve the horrid threats and comments she has received. no one does. at the end of the day that is still someones little girl you know. in fact, its against the UN charter of human rights to treat anyone the way the trolls have treated her. and i will do my damndest to protect her from those trolls, as No one deserves to be attacked in such a depriaved why from such utter dregs of society! i wouldnt wish the treatment she has received even on kim-il-sun. but that is all i will do, defend a fellow human being, as for the rest of it, i disagree with her opinions and politics entirely!
now, i will agree with you that there is a lot of false information on her videos, and that kickstarter campaign Reeks something damn fishy!!
but, if there has been a con or two going on, that is up to the united States legal System to sort out. it is their job to judge and, if proven, punish her. Not ours.
we, the users of CZcams are not legal Experts. The US supreme court are so, please people, leave the job to them! .
Simeon Yves 1. Remember that USA is a heavily capitalist country. www.candyswipe.com/king.html
2. I think that she deserves heavy critique mostly because not only did she take money, is spreading false information, but she's trying to sell her nonsense to schools.
3. I do agree that she does not deserve death and rape threats though.
mirta000
good point, America is perhaps the personification of all that is evil about money. no wonder the 2 greediest publishers in gaming happen to be based there. still, i doubt she has the money needed to err.. "convince" a "wrong decision". were talking billions for that.. she only raised, what...16 thousand bucks?
2. yes, she does deserve heavy Critique, I agree perfectly, and i agree most of her videos are Pure Propaganda, and nothing more. i mean, i can point out that "there are no strong females in gaming" is Pure BS with two Player Characters and Three Games off the top of my head.. Cate Archer from No One Lives Forever and its Sequel, and Joanna Dark From Perfect Dark on the Nintendo 64 which really does prove she doesn't do any research as those are pretty old games now.
And i am personally Disgusted to my very core! at her selling the "Femenist cause" in schools, especially Elementary, as kids should Not be exposed to such complicated and if used incorrectly, dangerous, political views, especially when they are too young to understand!
i do agree she should be critiqued on that, and heavily! But, in a reasoned, calm, and educated Manner. because as soon as someone goes "BANG!", especially a male, she wins. because it gives her ammunition she can use to "proove" that all male gamers are dangerously insane man-children who hate women,.. or some other ridiculous and disgusting extreme feminist propaganda.
3. and that is what i will defend her from. nothing more. she is a human being, no matter how much i disagree with her.
Simeon Yves Pshaw Simeon, Capcom is just as greedy as EA, it's PEOPLE who are greedy not just "Americans".
scscanlan true. true. it is indeed people who are greedy, but, it is the american mega-corporations, like EA and Activision, who are the "sterotypical personification" of corporate greed, the "Trope Codifier" if you will.
Also, I really have to wonder, would capcom have taken such a disgustingly greedy business strategy as they have done, had EA not shown it was viable by doing it pre hand?
I think most gamers are just tired of hypocritical people that know next to nothing about video games, coming to them and saying that gaming is offensive/for kids/makes people violent or whatever other bullshit they come up with.
^This.
I'm damn sure that Jack Thompson got way more death threats than Sarkeesian, but no one ever defended Thompson. While death threats and such are vile and disgusting, it just comes with the medium. You make anything on the internet and chances are that some kid will disagree with you and send you a childish death threat. Anita was put in the spotlight because of the fact that she happens to be a feminist. Even though her arguments are completely faulty. If Sarkeesian was a dude, no one would care that some hack on the web got death threats.
completely agree.
Larty42 Mario has never been a game series that has a good story. It's always been about minimalistic stories such as "Peach be kidnapped,go save her" or " There be evil green monster,go beat up". It has nothing to do with sexism, it has everything to do with Mario games having no story to them, thus every single character is a damn trope.
Larty42
Super Mario Bro 2. (NES)
Super Princess Peach. (DS)
Mario Kart, Mario Sports games, Smash brothers, etc...
Nintendo always used peach in a flexible manner. She always did different things. She was never "ALWAYS" a damsel in distress. I think they did a good job with her character.
"Disney shutting down Lucasarts is the sad end of an era." and the beginning of an even sadder one lol smh
Tanks for sharing our suffering, today a PS4 in Brazil is a lot cheaper, about R$1.500 (about US$400) but took a lot of time to it to change. I'm happy to see that you care about the gaming community in other countries.
Glad to hear it all changed for the better for Brazillian gamers. I hate when goverments try to fuck over their own people, because of corruption, or politics, or "economic" reasons, or all of the above. God knows, we also have a lot of this shit in Russia (but thanks God, our government doesn't care too much about games, or we would be royally fucked, lol).
Henrique Ribeiro I think the price is cheaper now, because Microsoft stopped paying Brazil to tax Sony.
Hopefully with the PS5 in the next gen consoles the prices would be equally better.
I am all for women's rights, and I totally agree that women are WAY too often overtly sexualized in video games, but Anita Sarkeesian says some really Goddamn stupid stuff.
but it doesn't justify the abuse she got from keyboard warriors.
Yes, it is so true!
ChineseKiwi Totally, I'm not trying to excuse the idiots on the internet. I just think Angry Joe is being perhaps a bit too apologetic to people like Anita and Phil Fish, even if their haters are dickbags.
Indeed she does.
Not really the point though, is it.
I love how he was right about the comments section, all the top comments are about the feminist chick.
I think it is about time we have a serious discussion about tomatoes.
I don't like tomatoes :\ But I do like cucumber :D
I love tomatoes...when they are made into ketchup.
Yeah that's just sad
How about the fo#cking youtube copy right feminsest blah youtube I sucking right now
Jacob Redman what the fuck are you on about?
Hey Joe it's 2019.... And you're not gonna believe what just happened.
I'm late, what happened?
Yeah, what happened?
I'm guessing fallout 76?
You could almost put a 2020 title on this and few things would be noticably different
What happened?
His channel died?
24:36 this didn't age well
Anita Sarkeesian...mentioned in an Angry Joe video...I think I need to sit down for a moment.
I think you missed the point of why people are outraged at her Joe.
There is so much I can say about her. Anyone who even bothered to look up the controversies that surround her will understand why. And I'm not talking about opinions...but cold, hard facts and the many contradictions, lies, twisting of data, and other things that have arose since this all started...even some before.
I'll be honest, I don't like her but I don't think she should have gotten that overreaction. If she honestly thinks that there is something wrong, it is in her right to express herself...but the way she is going about all of this is so highly questionable, that it seems like something about her is discovered almost every month that contradicts her and discredits her.
It's really a shame since I was actually looking forward to her "Women vs Tropes" video series. I may be a guy, but I'm not blind or deaf to intellectual conversation.That's actually how I initially found her, since I thought I would find it there.
I guess none of this will matter anyway. The public only sees that she, a female, was attacked by male gamers, which I have to question as well, and nothing else. That's what was put on the news and that's the only thing people seem to care about.
I've done my research on her to make sure I'm getting my facts straight. I even conducted some independent research where I listed the number and ratio of characters and their genders in the majority of games I own (around 170 now) to get a better picture of all of this. And I'm still adding on to it with every new game I get. I'm just getting tired of this subject since I'm automatically the one in the wrong since I oppose her.
Regardless, interesting video. A lot of crap really did happen this year alone. Lucky number 13, right?
i had never heard of Anita Sarkeesian before now, how the hell did i miss that?
***** Wolfenstein:return to the castle,best first person shooter ever!
You and me both bro. Did not know about this at *all* until now.
"companies will have us pay full price to test their games"
looks at fallout 76
Shit Joes a prophet
"HES A MAN NOT A GOD" LMAOOOOO
And you young
This Fish guy is obviously an unstable individual
I think you should leave.
+TheAnanaki sorry?
Alex Timmerman great insult, hipster (im an impersonator)
+TheAnanaki I Was thinking the same thing
TheKSH991 open your mouth i daaaaaaaaaarrrrreeee ya
Î think the main problem with Sarkeesian is and always was that her videos are simply mostly lies, she does not work from the ground up, instead of looking at something and going along the lines to form an opinion, she starts with the opinion and than handpicks some scene, ripping them out of context and than says how bad everybody is, if she would have worked right and not just look stuff up in wikipedia, she wouldn't have faced such a strong opposition and I'm talking about real opposition here, there are tons of videos critizising her work not the fact that she is a woman.
Furthermore Joe, you never heard anyone threaten you?
I mean I have seen a video of some asshole making fun of you claiming to be angry jose, in my opinion thats much worse than some stupid "omg I repa ya", thats simply childish, rather than someone attacking you personally, furthermore why did she never talk about samus, as far as I remmeber, she is the most badass "chick" in the gaming industry, personally I think she could kick almost every heros ass, strike that..she could kick everyones ass.
About the 'Repa ya' thing, I think it's obvious that women are more sexually harassed than men. Not saying it doesnt happen to men, but it is more common with Men on women. And TotalBiscuit once said that one negative comment doesn't hurt you, but to see it daily will eventually break most people's backs.
Lastly, a person once said this in regards to the 'anti-feminists':
"When you hear a complaint that someone has raised, you might think that they’re expressing an irrational, emotional, over-reaction to the situation. You might even be correct - but it doesn’t matter, and here’s why:
You don’t get to decide what someone else finds offensive.
You don’t get to decide what someone else finds uncomfortable, unwelcoming, disconcerting, stressful, harrassing, troubling or painful.
You aren’t the world: everyone isn’t exactly like you."
Not to sound like a dick but angry Jose sounds like a bad ass name, yet again not trying to be a dick, just thought something, also I do have to agree with you about Sarkeesian, I do agree that there is some Sexism in the gaming industry and some of it is flat out pretty bad, but she generally just lies rather than proving anything, which is a shame, a sad wasted opportunity
Sure, there's sexism in games, but that's because developers most often aim at their Male market.
Women are 47% of the gaming population (that's actually a fact), but they're still seen as a minority in devs eyes and gamer eyes because they're not audible. Miss Sarkeesian is trying to change that. however she's not doing it how it should be done. and for that she's getting death threats. disgusting, really
Pinklett Cobbler
I think the problem here is, this woman kills randy pitchford in a short story, she endorsed this and finds that great, but beating one picture up is much worse?
I have to ask what kind of hypocrite do you have to be to complain about "death and rapethreats", however endorising killing someone else in another way is allright, because you are the one "pulling the trigger?"
Sexuall harrassmend is "silly" anyway, if you see how feminists want to define it, after all a big story in the feminists movement and further more a cancer in the atheist movement, is the "elevatorgate" where asking someone for a cup of coffee/tea to continue a talk later one, obviously means that this was a serious rape "attack", look it up its horrible.
Something else here, do you personally believe that what happend was all that 4chan could do?
We all have seen what a violente force 4chan can be and "all" the reaction miss sarkeesy has to show for herself really is "just" a bunch of "I repa ya" attacks, I hope you pick up on my intent on why i misspell it, and "I will kill you" attacks, which really don't mean anything, log into xbox or any online game, how many people will call you a bitch or threaten to rape/kill you or any familymember and thats not because you go against their opinions, thats just because you play a game against them.
So really the 4chan reaction first seems horrible, but if you really think about it there wasn't much of any reaction there.
And lets not forget, Miss S. constantly complains how women are descriped as weak and useless creatures and how they are not able to defend themself against the evil big men dominated space..and what does she do with all this "omg look how they react" yeah..she draws the victim card that she herself complains about, that makes alot of sense.
FrankHorrigan377
Well I saw it ages ago from someone who called himself the "critique of critics" or something, the main problem is that he said he was not going to argue about what he will portray and then started bullshit like "Ahh look at me waving my hands like an idiot and shouting and mugging the camera and having cheap greenscreen effects", if my recollection serves me right there.
The problem is not that someone is doing it, the problem is that you are not "open" to debate, similar as Miss S., who untill today, has not replied to the hundreds of videos calling on her opinion and "debunking" her arguments, she is jsut there to "puke" out her argument and if you say something against her she just pulls the "someone said he wants to kill me" card to silence you.
Commander John Shepard
Yeah, but the problem here is, just changing the roles around aka. having a woman rescue a man does not actually change how sexit any of this is, this is what boogles my mind really, she somehow thinks that having a woman as a hero and a male as a "damsel" is alright, but that makes no sense in my eyes.
The gender of the damsel should not be important, but also her conclusions are wrong, man do not want to rescue women because they think they[women] belong to them and its "theft" to take them away or it someone takes their "power" over the women away, no its love and friendship and all that that drives a hero to rescue his/her loved ones, not some stupid power fantasy.
Furthermore she had the ability to rip one of the best examples of sexim a new one, metroid other m, that thing alone could have allowed for an entire video to deconstruct how horribly they "raped" the beloved Character of Samus Aran, I personally do not even see this piece of shit as cannon, no matter what those dunces from the productionteam claim, Samus is a strong independend women, not some whiny "omg I need help from men to hold open a door" or "I will suffer needlessly and painfully, untill some men says what I have to do" aka Hell run.
Sorry but this game is garbage and as far as I can recollecte, please right me if I forget it, she never really doves into this, the perfect example of sexim that even pissed off tons of ~male~ fans and she does not take up on it?
Anita Sarkeesian gets hate from people not because of her opinion but because she herself isn't even a feminist, she's a con artist.
Also Joe: You're telling trolls to stop trolling her. Don't feed the trolls.
con artist, how so?
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Hazztech My reply is a comment above. Has a video that completely destroys and eviscerates Anita, and among the blades are why she was a con artist.
what?
She's not a con-artist.
She asked for a small sum, people like you blew it way out of proportion, which gave her a ton of publicity and money.
She gave exactly what she promised to give. Just because you don't agree with it, doesn't make her a con artist.
Damn, as soon as Anita Sarkeesian came up, I knew the comment section would be a war-zone. I think he's quite courageous to bring that up.
Uncle Lucifer Zed
If you don’t understand his argument than you’re the brain dead one
@@xTrinity007 his argument involved defending a con artist who cherry picks her arguments, ignores anything that contradicts them and doesn't even properly play the games she talks about which is why she ends up with such ignorant views. AJ was a grade A white knight here, he should have called her out, the argument is way more than just "she stole people's gameplay footage". She misrepresents games in order to make them look bad and her look good.
Angry Joe was definitely white-knighting here but yeah he's right there was no reason to send her death threats or overreact, especially when her poor journalism would ultimately lead to her being irrelevant by 2020 anyway which was obvious at the time.
It’s a shame Joe defended her because she is a vile woman. Though in fairness we only saw how nasty she is after Vidcon with how she treated Boogie
@@joet8862 Joe's main point of that segment was that it's fucking obscene and also wrong that she's getting death and rape threats over her own opinions. Nobody deserves that type of treatment for sharing their own opinions, and even if she used somebody's gaming footage without permission it's in no way justifiable to send her death threats and saying that she should get raped.
Also, calling Joe a white knight for simply being a decent human being and defending her from the ridiculous mistreatment she was getting is fucking pathetic.
Seeing The Lucasarts part almost made me cry man...Damn you Disney!
Never heard of Anita Sarkeesian before this video.
Me neither man
"Guys, real talk for a second."
*Humps air 15 seconds later*
Laughed so hard at that. Love you Joe hahahahah
few years later and she screws last of us 2 over lol
If you really think the result of that shit show was because of her, who isn't even relevant nowadays, you're ignorant af
Well she is loved by drunkman and was heavily involved with making it suitable for the woke sjw squad but thx for being a ignorant drone
@@fetussupreme3600 She had the ears of Drunkman and was a confidant. It isn’t bizarre to think her involvement had some influence the games direction. Drunkman has done panels repeating her same talking points.
Nothing justifies some of the vile shit sent her way. Hate on her all you like, I think she’s a bitch too, but arguments over video games is never an excuse for the level of harassment she’s been faced with. No one should have to fear for their safety over gaming.
@@UnfoundFilms yes they should. She forced herself in the space to try and change it and she can be forced out by the people who have kept it alive.
20:41 "Please treat these games with respect Disney and EA"
EA: Ok, lol jk
We all know how that went.
Until now, I didnt even have a clue who Anita Sarkeesian was lol
same o.o where did this all come from haha
Neither did I!
I actually embarked on a CZcams adventure following this video, a "Quest for Anita" you might say... and discovered that there is an almost universal revulsion towards her from the gaming community, and for apparently good reason.
Joe makes some valid points about trolls in the internet community, but it's nearly impossible to watch Anita's videos as a gamer and not cringe in agony at the blanket terms and generalizations she makes towards gamers. It's quite bizarre, not to mention the out-of-context material she cites from video games she allegedly "played"
Aldo Talleyrand
I purposefully didnt go looking for her just in case she really was as annoying as everyone says she is haha
I have whole new level of respect for Angry Joe on the Anita Sarkeesian controversy. I lost the same amount of respect on thuderf00t and AmazingAtheist for taking the time to argue on the topic.
I feel sorry for Phil Fish. Kind of reminds me of how I was in school extremely depressed and EXTREMELY stressed out. Hopefully he didn't kill himself and is living a much happier life.
Joe just called her out on her lack of crediting and footage theft, as well as criticising the disgusting rape/death threats - rightly so. He didn't agree with her. Goes to show how people see an argument as two sides, disregarding objective reasoning and critical thought.
45 minutes? Let me prepare some snacks
Check out Angry Joes excellent Top 10 Gaming Controversies of the year
Yeah TB! :3
TB! I can't decide which to watch first. This or your VLOG...
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BoomDynamite17 Both at the same time. Because multitasking.
Angry Joe NEVER disappoints.
I gave Joe a standing ovation for his rant about Anita Sarkessian and the hate she receives. That was beautiful and summed up my thoughts entirely.
Honestly, those angry man-children really make me hate the community as a whole. Gamers of the world, please stop attaching your egos to videos games. It's great that we're all so passionate about what we love, but sometimes we take it a bit too seriously. And frankly, it makes us look bad. Honestly, what I find hilarious are the thousands of men who seem to literally dedicate their lives and effort into "discrediting" and "debunking" Anita Sarkeesian. Seriously? Is one woman critiquing your precious video games really worth this much anger and hostility? The anger and vitriol she receives is uncalled for and should not be tolerated.
Honestly, these people remind me of those right-wing, Second Amendment nuts who go absolutely insane whenever the issue of gun control is mentioned, and subsequently arrive at the extreme, illogical and irrational conclusion that President Obama himself is going to personally arrive at their doors and take their precious guns away. It's the same reaction, if you really think about it. Anita Sarkeesian is not a threat to anything. She is not going to take your precious games away from you. I don't agree with everything she says, and while she may be a bit of an extremist (although, only a bit; her ideas are basic level, frankly), if the end-goal of her campaign is to help the gaming community and industry become more accessible and inclusive for women, then I think that's great; and I do support Anita in that regard. Again, I don't always agree with her critiques, but she has a right to say it without the worry of rape threats and disgusting behavior from whiny man-children. Others don't have to agree, but please, boys: Don't be childish dicks. Anita is not going to take your precious controllers away from you.
And FYI, people: If you don't like what Anita Sarkeesian says, you don't have to listen to her, you know. Gamers really need to grow up and stop being so childish over someone critiquing their games.
Agree, people rant around on the internet just to show how vulnerable they are.
+RyanX1231 The only problem is that she is trying to cause real change where change is not needed. Having an opinion is one thing; forcing your opinion (that is backed up by faulty statistics, if any) down literally everyone's throats is another.
batman88891 Well, she's not really "forcing" an opinion down anyone's throats. She offers her views on various platforms, but I don't see it as forceful. Like I said, we can't really say that she's forcing something down our throats if we have the option to watch something else and not listen to her.
***** Well no, my point of her forcing it down people's throats is the fact that she openly tried to get the U.N. to conform to her ideas. If you just have an opinion and you accept that, you don't go to the U.N. and have a debate just for the lolz. She, along with Zoe Quinn (someone who I absolutely despise even more than Anita, simply because she tried so hard to be relevant to Gamergate even though she stopped being relevant almost immediately), tried to make anti-feminist (her version of feminist) posts illegal and classified as hate speech/harassment. Even just people trying to have a nice, healthy debate with her (which, the silent majority of anti-feminists, or at least anti-radical feminists are actually trying to do) would be illegal going by what she planned on doing. Anita won't back down and take no as an answer and will find any way to force her opinions down anyone's throat - assuming they disagree with her.
With number 9, even though Fish chose his response poorly, you have to admit that Annoyed Gamer was WAY out of line when he made those comments.
Rome 2 was the biggest disappointment of the year.
Man joe was tearing up a little near the end there. I don't blame him.
When a man has to use the words "my lively hood" it's usually a very tough time in his career.
Should have stopped her before Last of Us 2, lesson learned I guess.
Really, feminism gets way too much hate. You wouldn't denounce the racial equality community, would you? People have the right to claim something is sexist, just like we have the right to claim something is racist, homophobic, or religiously intolerant.
Davis Moniz I do agree that she's a terrible choice for the face of the community, but the problem is those people who then try to say that the entire community is exactly like that, and that we're all stupid/corrupt/what have you. People like that really just bother me entirely.
+Sam Geuvenen At least Racial support groups aren't so split. Feminism has such a diverse split that one group has a completely different way of thinking that the other. Some want to fix the problems, some want to blame society standards, some want to attack men, and etc. Especially with groups that claim anything is sexist doesn't give Feminism a good name. And the thing is that this isn't a tiny group. This same radical group has a large following and some influence over games and media. Racial issues in media doesn't happen as often as Feminists claiming sexism across video games.
ScourJful No movement is in total agreement. Not even Racial Support.
+Sam Geuvenen as an egalitarian myself i find it on that these feminazi's as i like ot call themselves are still doing the things they do its stupid around the world there are countries where feminism isnt a big thing and they have serius sexism problems e.g. places where women get stoned for having sex etc... and i think it would be much better if feminism focused on that or focused on famales getting into governmental jobs and things not gaming where allthough sexism definatly exists its not malicously sexist they just show perfected versions of the female characters they do the same with men though as well
Nnathen drake and kratos being good examples of people maade to be perfect renditions of what a society views as cool or appealing. this uff happens but as long as you dont go on call of duty on xbox i have never heard real sexist comments on any servers of any games i have played allthough on the xbox it does happen lots 'the only reason it doesnt happen as much on playstion is as less people have mics probably. btw i play on pc where most gamers i know and games i play are played by women as well and a fair few are ops on servers and stuff so i dont think that gaming is overtly against females i think these feminazis should stop spewing there shit and focus on the bigger picture and takkle active sexism towards females/
sorry for grammer and spelling mistakes i mispelt a few words but fuck it im of to work in a minute
Yeah but when someone disagrees with you, without attacking or insulting or anything, just simply disagrees, and you label them sexist or a harasser, then you deserve any criticism you get.
45 minutes!? This is going to be BIG and GOOD.
That's what she said!
That's what I thought. O.o
You let Feminist like Anita to change the video game industry, you wont have games like God of War, Metal Gear Solid, The Witcher and the list goes on.
Witcher just came out so you are kinda wrong
Mathias Haastrup Bohnfeldt No i wasnt. I was talking about what would happen if feminism made an impact on video games.
Saood Fahad Wow. You really missed the point of what he was saying, huh?
***** you have to be fucking inbred to think developers will let go of the testosterone filled games that have a huge demographic and therefore a huge posibility for profit
Mizoturi Look what they did to Mad Max Fury Road. It became an achievement for feminist. It really is a joke.
24:55 This is a HUGE misstep on Joe's part and one of the most poorly researched and represented issues he's ever tackled. This is a link to a video that COMPLETELY destroys Joe's terrible attempt at defending one of gaming's most toxic enemies.
"Angry Joe's Defense of Anita REFUTED!" That's the exact title of the video. Its done by a guy named PrinceAsbel.
+Philip Paul You do realize that Joe doesn't agree with most all of Anita Sarkeesian's views right? He is simply asking us to stop being sexist and shit.
lolperk111
I don't know that he disagrees with anything she's been doing. He hasn't tweeted anything to that effect nor has he made a video about that subject.
Also he didn't simply ask anything. He acted like a asshole to anyone who had a problem with her and made a video calling her on her shit. He was blinding himself to the obvious truth for the sake of being politically correct.
Philip Paul If you watch the video, Joe says that he doesn't agree, but he also says that's not the point. The point is that she is entitled to her opinion and shouldn't be receiving sexist remarks at all for having one that does not agree with gamers.
Philip Paul No, everyone is entitled to their opinion. Being entitled to your opinion means that you have your own opinion and you are free to support it because it is your opinion. Doesn't mean you have the qualifications to back up your opinion, sure, but still you can have an opinion on things.
Another, I definitely agree that Anita is for the most part is over stepping her boundaries. However, it doesn't take a qualified gamer to say that some games are definitely objectifying women. That much I will say she has a point on, because it's true.
But the point is that it isn't about the validity of her argument, it's that gamers should be able to defend themselves and prove her wrong WITHOUT calling her a whore like you just did. How would you like it if you were called a manwhore by tons of people whenever you have a differing opinion. Do those people calling you a manwhore strengthen their argument in ANYWAY by calling you stupid shit? I can't comprehend why on earth you are even trying to use those kind of words. You clearly want Anita gone and away from the Gaming community... Yet here you are fueling her cause. Anita is campaigning against objectification and sexualization of women. She has some shady af methods but it's pretty damn clear that she believes in her cause, no matter how misinformed. Calling her a slut or a whore only strengthens her cause. She's probably going to use it as an example of how Games are teaching men to sexualize women. Seriously, it's not helping.
+lolperk111 more accurately Anita has the right to voice her opinion but without any experience and knowledge its not a valid opinion for the topic ie. you dont ask the pizza dilvery man for advanced physics
i always liked angry joe, hes open, aggressive and unapologetic about his opinion and the Anita defending made me like him more
You misspelled "less". You respect him less now.
Nomad94 why would I?
Maia- San Because he openly supports a proven liar. Have you watched any videos debunking Anita? Any at all?
Nomad94 he's not supporting her, he things she has a right to give her opinion and all the rape threats are unjustified
Maia- San First off: what he's doing is, he's denying people their right to freedom of speech by telling them not to criticize her (using ridicule of the lowest form btw).
Second, EVERYONE gets rape and death threats on the internet. Not everyone use it to play the victim card.
Thank you Joe for being reasonable about the whole Sarkeesian outrage. If only more would listen to fucking sense.
People with sense don't insult her, but rip apart her horrendously misinformed arguments with counter-arguments.
Ryan M exactly. Using your brains will do far more against whatever idiocy she tries to pull.
Pinhead Thorneberry see, you didn't have to talk like that. When the first thing that comes out is "fucking retarded" its no wonder some of the terribly misinformed in society look at "gamers" or even men like that.
Ha. You're pretty great.
yeah, no need to harass her, but i still think she is a weak person that is afraid of other peoples thoughts!
I agree 100% on #3. Children and idiots like to attack the person in disgusting ways when they are too stupid to formulate an argument. She has some good points, some bad points, but god forbid we have an intelligent conversation about it.
32:39 boy this has aged well.........
Yeah big L
kelel Mortal Kombat 11: "Hold my beer."
And now in 2024 the coomer souls controversy made it pretty clear that they were, in fact, trying to take it away all along.
5 years later and what people feared about no. 3 happened, and even Angry Joe is upset about it.
Joe, Dice asked EA for one more month to work on BF4, but they denied.
Yup, but BF4 is also in my Top 10, simply because it's an abomination of glitches, crashes and netcoding... an AAA title shouldn't deserve such a low attention to detail.
one month wouldnt help lol
Dreamon - The Belgian Waffle i wish i had glitches, bugs and crashes i feel so left out :( fucking buttery smooth since beta FUCK YOU DICE!
lol, forgive me for asking, but what is your problem with the game then? I had plenty of crashes and netcoding issues....
le Kema Actually it could have. Maybe not alot, but it could have made the game a little better.
Your defense of Anita is utterly ridiculous. Yeah, go ahead loyal fanbase, tell me how he is not defending her. I adore Joe as well, but this is just embarassing.
It all indicates that she is a fraud, and yet he hasn't even criticized her. Instead, he criticizes the extremists who threaten her physically and pretends that we are just arguing that she is not entiled to her opinion. That is a gross misunderstanding. She can think whatever she likes, but the moment she requests an audience about all that *BULLSHIT*, then that becomes more than just her personal opinion. When she goes on to challenge and critique video games in the manner that she does, she may be entitled to what she thinks, but WE _also_ are entitled to our opinion about her hypocrisy and fraudulent misrepresentation of what video games are. She isn't challenging the status quo. She insults our intelligence, whether you're a developer or a gamer. She is attacking us, we are not attacking her. This is not about her taking our porn away. Ugh. Really, Joe? This is about her being a liar and a tool whose thesis is plainly wrong and offensive by any and all standards. If she is allowed to be offended, then I am allowed to be offended by her remarks as well.
As a sidenote, come on man, what you said during the ending was extraordinarily silly. If you don't play video games, then you cannot critique them. If you haven't played battlefield 4, then you can't, all sincerity, make a review about it. That is _FRAUD_.
Indeed: any defense of that money-grabbing con-artist is a mistake.
yes, and as i posted a few days ago, it is up to the UNITED STATES LEGAL SYSTEM! to investigate her over those alleged offenses, find her Guilty if she has commited them, and then Send her to Jail..
it is NOT up to US, the internet Public, to Punish her, it is up to the LEGAL professionals in her country!.. This is Not Hollywood and we are not the second coming of Charles Bronson, there is no room for vigilantism.
also,, in case you have not done your research. Death Threats and Rape Threats, especially the latter!, of the kind She has Received are ILLEGAL under the United Nations Bill of Human Rights... INTERNATIONAL LAW!
wich, basically, makes the people who made them even Bigger Criminals than you claim Anita to be!...
I dont know about you, but defending people for attacking her when their attacks break INTERNATIONAL LAW! just strikes me as completely stupid and rather sick on top of that!
Sure, maybe she has commited crimes, im not going to pujor myself by saying if she has,. or has not! But, the people who posted those threats HAVE commited Criminal Acts, and their posts are proof, and the only thing that Protects them from a good forty years in Jail is the Anonymity of the Internet.
Maybe she doesnt deserve defending... but Neither do the people who made those threats! By supporting them, neo nazi Scum, the Detritus of the human race,.. as far as i am concerned, that actually makes you worse than Anita... Supporting a Confirmed! crime is as bad as commiting it yourself.. Remember, Anita's "crimes" are not confirmed, they are Alleged, a cockamamie conspiracy theory.. those Death and Rape threats, are a Fact! a Confirmed Crime. so dont support them, as that is as bad as doing them.
Also. no matter how Disgusting you may find her, or the femenist cause...at the end of the day, that is STILL someones Little girl! It is Still a Human Being with a family! How would YOU feel if someone threatened your Daughter or Neice, or Sister, or whatever, with Death or Rape? put yourself in her families position before opening your keyboard next time, because i did, and i Hate Femenists with a passion! so whats your excuses people, eh?
leave it to the US legal System, Punishing her is Their Job. not yours,. not mine.
You're an idiot. You hate feminism and women. You're a burden on mankind.
MissIceMateria But he's the first mankind all over the world.
his response was reasonable and thoughtful.... breath in and breath out.
You defend the right to speak, and I hope throughout time men and women like you will do that.
You also have the right to be shit on, see isn't that fair and now we can all be happy. At the very least none of us are trying to get laws passed to silence the other side.
Anita is only in 10% of this video, but 80% of the comments! Joe was right. Just the mention of her name undermines anything else being said, and turns the comment section into a flame war.
+Krystian “Halucygeno” Podlaszewski I completely disagree with Anita but those death threats needs to stop. Then again, she needs to think hard on dealing with situations like this, because she confuses on normal criticism with harassment. Almost every single twitter posts involved with her complaining about criticism.
That's because they are moronic crybabies. I have huge respect for Joe and no loser raging commenter is gonna make me change my mind
Slevin Wait to completely miss the point, moron
Number 1 is awful and I fear it may only get worse :(
It is, google didn't give a shit about everyone's complaints.... They are probably going to do more shitty updates to the site later on. What a horrible company.
That's what happens when companies get bigger and bigger. In essence they stop caring about the people who got them where they are now. Their Customers.
It's one giant buttf*** if you ask me.
The way CZcams works has also gone down the shitter. It doesnt want to replay, it jams when I load anything, its just terrible.
Unfortunately, it may go that way because as they always say "It'll get worse before it gets better," but in this case, it may just get worse than it is right now. Once a company gets high on themselves upon becoming a bigger company, they do some of the most meaningless updates that do not need to be done for the sake of making it "better," but in reality the updates they have made have been useless and has fucked a lot of people up. They like to fuck their technical creators in the ass multiple times and as of now, it has just been getting worse.
_"No-one is ever going to take away your porn. No-one is ever going to take away our male power fantasies. No-one is ever going to take away those games with those ridiculously sexy and non-functional female armor designs."_
You are wrong, Joe. Look at the _Divinity: Original Sin_ artwork controversy, where the social justice warriors and moral guardians that the gaming journalists have become blackmailed the graphic artist into covering up the "ridiculously sexy and non-functional female armor design".
So yes, the feminist justice warriors _do_ have an actual effect on video games. There is a _very real_ possibility that they will take away "our porn". (An argument may be raised on whether this is a good or bad thing, but my point is that you are wrong. It's not inconsequential. It really does have an effect, and your assessment is incorrect.)
You might say that this is just a single, isolated case and that it will be soon forgotten. I really hope you are right.
_"No-one is ever going to take away your porn."_
Once again, Joe, you are completely wrong. Target Australia removed GTA5 from its catalog because of an online petition that claims that the game entices and rewards players for assaulting women.
If you claim that this has absolutely nothing to do with Sarkeesian's videos, you are delusional.
Joe, you are wrong. Sarkeesian's videos _do_ have an actual effect on the market. Yes, they _are_ "taking away our porn". Are you man enough to come out and admit that you were mistaken?
WarpRulez GTA isn't porn
Sex Panther
I don't think Joe was talking about _actual_ porn when he said that. He was referring to games with sexual content.
WarpRulez Well either case, nobody has taken it away
Sex Panther
Target Australia (and in fact a few other stores there) took it away from their customers (and precisely for the reasons that Joe says wouldn't have such an effect).
This may be just an isolated case that won't repeat, or it may be the start of a trend. When the complainers and their followers see that petitions do have an actual effect on these things, what do you think they will do? Do you think they will just be content with this one single success, or do you think they will keep doing it in the future? How many other people are going to follow in their footsteps?
I might not completely agree with Anita and I think she is kinda insane, but Jesus Christ, reading those comments was just depressing.
@Uncle Lucifer Zed O grow up and calm down you fucking manchild.
@@generalhorse493 Hypocricy 100?
I'm so sick of discrimination. Race, sex, political views, sexuality, it doesn't fucking matter, you're all people. No one is better than you and you're not better than anyone.
+Andrew Valenti Then you should not like anita. She's a first class sexist. She does think that she is better then all men.
Piekartz I don't know much about her. This video is the first time I've heard about her, although I try not to judge anyone, I can't shake my hatred for discrimination. It's a really dumb thing, and i wish people would just realize how ignorant it makes them.
Andrew Valenti The issue is this: Anita is a fanatic with ridiculous ideas. And she is actually getting a stage. She judges feminism issues at Twitter, she talks at conferences.
Sensible people take issue with this, a lot of sensible and intelligent people make videos who point out her stupidity, arrogance and dangerous ideas. But of course, there are also people who threaten her with violence.
There are always idiots who do that. And it is wrong of course.
Joe is generalizing everyone who has a problem with the work/ideas of Anita.
He is presenting "us" as small boys who are afraid of her taking away our games.
This generalization and rant is a result of a lack of research. Very misplaced.
But let me repeat: death threats against anyone are despicable.
She's a fanatical zealot with an agenda and almost one million dollars in her back pocket which she gained through lies and misinformation. She's definitely one to watch out for. I'd be lying if I said I didn't admire her ability to manipulate people. The problem isn't that she's silencing offensive comments and concerned about threats made against her, that is more than reasonable and understandable. It's that she's also silencing any one who has legitimate criticisms of her viewpoint, which is why no one's ever seen her in any kind of debate (because she would be soundly defeated).
If I were to say "Your information is wrong, what you're saying is a lie." On any of her forums or mediums, I'd probably get permabanned, or swarmed by her misinformed fanbase, and most likely labelled a 'sexist' for doing so.
+Andrew Valenti You sound like a really nice dude, really down to earth. You should really tell that to Anita, wait... nevermind her comment section is disabled.
Anita Sarkeesian isn't a feminist. She is using feminism to get rich. She knows nothing about feminism or its grass roots. She doesn't care, she took a noble and just cause and used it to gain attention and get rich. She doesn't care about what her "works" does or what she influences. What matters to her is the amount of money she can make off of it. She's been caught lying about being a gamer, she's been using feminism to get what she wants, which is sad because she actually set feminism back by 20 years. Her videos are extremely uninformed and she flat out lies about her subject matter just so she can seem like she's telling the truth. The problem with Anita is that she can't be trusted. She didn't use most, if any, of that money for what she said she would use it for, she used it for her own greedy gain. And the funny thing is that real feminist have called her out. If she really was about conversation she wouldn't have blocked comments and ratings on her videos, she's a straight lier.
He talked about
for me is ok, only idiots suported her kickstarter.
let me add something... if shes a feminist shouldnt be fighting something more than just gaming... cause this exist everywhere... shes just making her profit out of it.. :/ what a loss
"She[Anita] is entitled to her opinion"
So was Hitler.
But seriously speaking - AngryJoe is full of shit here.
1. She IS trying to take away "porn and video games" - Her stance is CHANGE EVERYTHING TO MY LIKING! Look at what games she is addressing FFS - old ones, because damsel in distress is already used less and less. She, like all feminists, just want to make sure that world is tailored for her and no one else.
2. Most of what she says is load of shit. It's either cherry picking, misrepresenting something or plain obvious lie. [in one game she spoke about female character who sacrifices her life to enable defeat of boos - PATRIARCHY! In Prey - most emotional point in story - mercy killing your girlfriend - PATRIARCHY! HOW DARE STORY WRITERS SHOW WOMAN IN VULNERABLE POSITION! SHE SHOULD HAVE BEEN ONE DEFEATING ALIENS!]
3. Look at what lovely idea of "female friendly" game she came up! Woman kills men, big bad boss is men... Wait, isn't "let's kill men" way more obvious trope than "save princess"? Why not suggest game where woman is killing women? Oh right, because that would be "oppressive" and would teach kids to kill/beat up women (no one cares about men though).
4. Her all "criticism" is about money and victim card.
5. Locked comment section, not answering to any criticism. Sure shows how strong her points are.
Also your point of "let's explore other kinds of stories" is bullshit - there are plenty of other kinds of stories. I have not played any damsel in distress games for last 6 years or so.
And feminism IS plague.
AND "I wish you died/got raped/ whatever" is not a threat. Game where you beat someone up - is not threat. Take a law book and check what threat is.
Well done on white-knighting though.
Clearly that means she deserves to be spammed with hate, because saying that she should die and/or get raped defeats all her arguments single handedly.
I do believe she wouldn't receive that much flak if it were about another video game subject other than feminism... The huge reaction from that is what spells out the problem. It doesn't matter what she said and why, what matters is people are taking her way too seriously. All of these comments saying "Omg Joe, you're full of shit, don't defend her! Gaaaaah!`" are all people that seriously put way too much thought into her and what she represents.
Take a step back buddy, what does it matter? There's always people who believe in things you don't, who have controversial beliefs etc. Why do you have to feel so threatened by her existence? Why does she make you feel so angry? So she doesn't deserve ANY respect because of her opinions, as well as death/rape threats?
Besides... you can't compare her to Hitler, you can't seriously think its the same situation. It's like you're saying her opinion will lead her to power where she'll invade the world and start a massive genocide of men. Like that's how much you perceive her as a threat... listen to yourself.
I really hope he reads this message... as in yours
Soozi Darling
"Did you really just compare Anita to Hitler" Where? There was no comparison. Not only you idiots do not know what "threat" is you kids do not know what "comparison" is too.
lifebarier Let me break it down for you... You wrote: " "She[Anita] is entitled to her opinion" So was Hitler."
Your first statement was a comparison... You, at the most basic level, took Hitler's name and wrote that she was entitled to her opinion just like Hitler... Also, on top of that, your statement also strongly suggest you are implying that she IS like Hitler for her radical views, why else would you use his name in particular. If you deny it then I don't know what to say anymore.
And stop it with all your semantics shenanigans. Your arguments are weaker than hers. Actually, you barely implied feeling threatened, I wanted to see your response to that, and you confirm it by showing that you fear she will change how games will be made. That you value freedom in video game design. That all she says are "lies and manipulation" Don't tell me I'm wrong about that one because that's really your main point. You are showing strong aversion to her because she threatens things you care about...
But... all that being beside the point, I understand where you coming from, but what Joe is saying in the video really was more of a call for calm. Even Joe might have his opinion about the issue, he does show a bit of support but it's minimal, he's mostly saying, calm down it's ok, it's not that big of a deal she can say what she wants she doesn't need all that flak.
And I agree, I don't think she threatens much, I don't think she'll affect developer's decisions as much as you think, besides, there are better and more constructive ways to disagree with her than by saying Joe is full of shit and that none of us know the meanings of a few words...
lifebarier I think you need to read up on the law.
Legally, a threat is defined as a spoken/written word used to control/intimidate others. It is illegal to say "bitch i'll rape you". Which many gamers did do to Sarkeesian. The game is not a threat nor illegal but it is still offensive to that person.
Ten years later and nothing’s changed
"We hope whoever gets star wars treats the license with respect"
Disney: *gives star wars to EA*
Indra inspace Also Disney: *releases TLJ*
I like Joe but I really get tired of female gamers being lumped in with Anita's stupidity as if her concerns are our own and that only the "sexist" males were mad. That the outrage was only cause she was female or that internet rage is suddenly new and super serious. Now yes, threats shouldn't be applauded but it also shouldn't silence those male and female who voiced legitimate concerns either yet somehow it keeps happening.
Imagine if only the death threats and craziness Jack Thompson got were the narrative shown by the gaming mainstream, would that have been accurate of the community's disagreement? Cause thats what we have now with Anita on top of the constant pandering to her without debate or criticism. Its fucking stupid.
Anita is just a feminist loon who already had odd views that she admitted got her lots of hate prior to 2012. This is the woman who made a list of creepy/sexist Christmas songs. She wasn't reasonable to being with but people have disagreed with her civilly despite not being acknowledged.
I don't see how being creeped out by a song that is clearly about date rape being an "odd view." It seems to be that if you think nothing is creepy about a song that implies a guy trying to spike a woman's drink, that is all the more evidence that feminism is still necessary, when people view non-consensual sex as "normal"
Kendall Raine
I'm so sorry I forgot Christmas time is the rape season of the year because a 1930s song is left to be interpreted differently from Anita's feminist views.
I'm just gonna leave you with this link that explains the different take on the song without 21st century connotations:
persephonemagazine.com/2010/12/listening-while-feminist-in-defense-of-baby-its-cold-outside/
Oh god when you got to the Anita Sarkeesian part I had to stop the video right there because I think I lost a lot of respect for you.
Anita is a scam artist and preys on the wallets of ignorant feminists and brainwashes them.
She's not there to promote "alternative games"; She's there to make money.
You of all people should know how disgusting it is for someone to do that.
I never once felt uncomfortable playing a video game and I don't need someone telling me that I should "open my eyes" and feel inferior, weak or ugly instead of having fun with my fantasy world.
In contrast imagine if a fat or skinny guy was playing a game with a really muscular and badass male character. Is someone going to tell the guys that they should feel imperfect and underpowered as well?
protip: Only teenagers care about porn in games. Veteran adult gamers care about intricate stories and there are plenty of games with those. In overall nobody gives a fuck about rescuing a princess, people only want to have fun.
How in the world does anything of that - assumed it was true although you have no proof for it - justify comments like "I'll kill you" or "I'll rape you"??? Perhaps you should watch this video to really explore what is Joe's point on this topic instead of talking about your own opinion about Anita Sarkeesian.
Writing harrassing comments and hate comments is just low and the people who wrote them should be ashamed of themselves. Nobody said that you can't critizise Anita but there is no justification for rape comments and death threats. Period.
TheLordCrash
Did I ever say it was justifiable?
My point was that Anita shouldn't be defended.
I don't really give two fucks if she is getting rape and death threat comments that are just harmless comments; Because everyone gets them; And she uses them to get attention and play the victim. But that is besides the point.
I was just criticizing Joe for defending the bullshit propaganda of Anita that promotes ignorance.
There's people out there with real criticism and not just inane comments you know. Joe made it seem like everyone was trolling the oh so poor innocent girl.
Amen sister
I agree with Anita on some of her points about video games, I do often think women are overly victimised in games and I do think that that needs to change to some extent. As much as I love the classic hero rescues princess story (Zelda is my life) I see no harm in a call to mix it up a bit and give women a more dynamic roll in mainstream videogames, or in mainstream media in general for that matter
Luna is very correct here. For some reason, whenever a woman is aesthetically pleasing, it's a SEXIST MALE FANTASY. But when a guy is ripped, it's a power fantasy. What the hell are we supposed to do? Make games about women where the men who play games can't project themselves into the character?
31:04 Little did joe know...
See Joe u made this video with that evil woman in it .. trying to be her white knight and now we have the last of us part 2 ..she is hurting games more than helping it .
That's what you get for being a simp
Condemning sexism and threats against someone is not being a simp. What kind of loser would harass someone over video games?
People didn't get pissed off because Anita was talking about it; they got pissed off because of HOW POORLY she gave her point. There's a difference between criticism and exaggeration. Criticism is good; lazy explanation is NOT criticism, it's a rant.
...Which made it not legitimate criticism.
I don't think iv ever disagreed with Joe on anything more than Anitas videos. Dont get me wrong; I fucking love Joe, self confessed fanboy over here. BUT he has missed the entire point as to WHY gamers are upset with feminist frequency. Right or wrong (and almost provably wrong) her opinions are MISREPRESENTING gamers. Shes making us all look like sexist fools and I for one, as someone who strives for both equality and "games as art" am disgusted by her.
Yeah i agree with you buddy, only that this cause dosen't make us look any better because of that other games sends her emails with threats about either killing or raping her! I must say that all that makes us gamers look sooo much better, high five gamers! You f***king morons!! It just came up for me, i and probably few others are a part of a community filled with idiots, freaks and morons! Hahahah it's redicules, people do actions before they think... It's a shame, it's just a fucking shame! Jesus what is wrong with people actully? There is something called kindness and grown up talks. It's better to talk like grown ups instead of coming with stupid, dumb sounding and insulting emails and comments! I mean look at me, i'm just a 16 year old, barley expirinced life! And i am smarter and more grown up than many of the fools in this so called gamer community of ours! :p It's just too funny!
His point is wether shes misrepresenting gamers whatever she still has the right to her opinion. In this world we live in there are no rights or wrongs, just opinions. You could tell me the sky is blue but there is no proof it is. We should all be allowed to express whatever opinion we wantwithout persecution from anything or anyone. You can disagree and state your case but people flagging her shit and threatining her is way more destructive than what she represents. Hes just saying no matter what she says money rules over opinion, nothing will change
daniel andre Verkland To be clear i dont agree with the threats but i understand them. If you go on the internet and start putting out content your getting get shit no matter what it is. Its worse in her case because shes a lying, manipulative bitch whose both misrepresenting gamers and playing the victim and i'm not sure which one pisses me off more. Yes, the death threats are terrible BUT shes almost doing something worse by USING them for media attention. She doesnt understand that the threats arent based on gender or discrimination, shes being harassed because shes been caught as a lying moron.
cuda861 I couldn't disagree more. I find the whole "Well thats your opinion" statement to be a dismissive argument for people who lack the brains or the balls to fight for or prove something they believe in. If you fight for something and get proven wrong, fine, so what? You learned something; but if everyone went around saying "well thats your opinion" nothing would move forward. To use your example, someone could say "The sky isnt blue, thats your opinion" you should retort. "No, its blue, use your common sense and cognitive senses and you'll see its blue because the light reflecting off our blue oceans gets caught in our atmosphere and reflects creating the image of a blue sky." You can believe something till your blue in the face but if your PROVEN wrong then what? Your delusional if you believe in something thats been proven wrong.
Cuda861, what the hell are you talking about? No rights and wrongs? Tell me was it right by Hitlers side that he got millions of people killed? Is it right that we white people came to america and drove the indians out of THEIR lands? Is it right that people kills other human beings just for a stock of money? Is it right that owners to their pets are wounding and misstreating the animals? Is it right that many, many humans work as slaves in slavery? Is it right that men are raping women and that women are raping men? Is it right that grown ups are raping small children? Is it right that people are kidnapping other people just to abuse them? Is it right that people are stealing from each other even despite for that they could have survived without that? Is it right that many workers in the goverment is using their power just to get things their ways? NO!!!! None of this are right! Start opening your other eye man and start see how the world really works. Opinions comes before actions. Take the raping of children as an example. Those grown ups can run around and HAVE THAT opinion of that there is nothing wrong about raping children but when they first do it. It's wrong, it's shamefull and disgracefull! Anyway if there are some grown ups running around thinking that it's ok raping children then there is something totally wrong about their heads! To be honest... Anyway there are only opinionsnin this world until those opinions start taking action and it's the actions who works out in the end it it's right or wrong to do so. This is not my opinion, this is something all us sane human beings share wich means all the bad things up there NOT are right but TOTALLY wrong. Only brain damaged people and such like belives that this things up there are right. Wich means there are lots of rights and wrongs in this world because opinions are just opinions, but it's the actions that speak for the opinion and shows if it's right or wrong. So what i just wrote now is not a opinion, it's right truth shining on all human beings that every person should look up to and follow. Thank you very much.
fantastic video joe, some of your best work
As a guy and a gamer all I say is: sexism makes me sick.
also that number 1 is why i don't make videos, would love to see it changed.
Mog Gles I think he just made the mistake of being gullible, it's right to be against sexism what is wrong is being against it where there none and lying about it being there.
I will assume he just wanted to also play the white knight and just blindly spouted the most PC/friendly he could think of ("sexism is bad guys, m'kay!!").
I don't think it warrants all the things you threw at his face though...
DayeWilliams "hiding behind video games"
Also I can safely assume you are not a gamer then.
Here is the door, you don't belong in this discussion.
Mog Gles at what point did i say i didn't like video games? and i was not intending to portray any image, its my honest opinion, ask before you attack somebody (if that ain't to much to ask these days).
Mog Gles you are right, there is a long list of things that make people sick, including me, i was just say sexism makes me sick as it was relevant to the video.
Anita is wrong. Outright wrong, and her whole damn show is wrong, because it acts like women are these massively oppressed people when they really aren't anymore. Anyone who tries to be openly sexist ends up jobless. They are ludicrously protected.
You still shouldn't be going around making death and rape threats. That's just not cool.
EDIT: and if your wondering, yes, I've had a girlfriend, I'm not some asshole who don't care about what women think. I hate what stupid people think. I am totally for good writing, which does include better written female characters obviously, that does not mean I'm for feminists in any way.
Such sport
Just a quick question. What does she think about this.
Women in Saudi Arabia are banned from driving. They're arrested for arrested for being topless in Britain. Never been President in USA. 9 out of 10 rape victims are women. Cannot have control over their own bodies (abortion) around the world like Republic of Ireland and USA. Millions are told or forced to cover up their heads and bodies (Conservative Muslims). I could go on, but what's the point? You clearly either ignore facts or ignorant to them. But get this, being openly sexist in your workplace is NOT the extent of sexism in this world.
erzan
What the hell does this have to do with video games?
bloodrunsclear
I think he means that, yes, sexism is a thing and the video game industry is no magical exception to that.
It's been 4 years & i'm still mad about Fez 2 being cancelled.
man, im brazilian and bacame a subscriber of your channel for a couple of months, since then im watching all your videos and admiring your work, i was sharing your channel with many friends who likes this type of content cause the way we can relate to you not as professional journalist but as dude who likes video games and movies with your friends and stuff, a everydude ahahhhaha and i see in this video you backing up us brazilian players with that situation of the ps4 price, MAN THIS IS RIDICULOUS ps4 in brazil costs 3 folds of the minimum month wage
thanks joe!!
Just wondering, what's the minimum wage per day there? Into British pounds?
the minimum brazilian wage per month is 788 reais, exchange rate of British pounds today are 5 reais for 1 pound, i dont know the details to calculate minimum wage per day but dividing 788R$ per 30 days is something like 26 reais per day, i think it may be 5 pounds per day
and can be worse ahahha cause most of products in brazil are imported and with high taxes, one product can be much more expensive in brazil than in england :(
for example with 5 reais you only can buy one bootle of 600ml of average beer ahahha
Just the Lucasarts studio logo made me sob :(
I think that whole Anita Sarkeesian was just a train wreck in the making from the start. Look I have no issue as a gamer with someone wants to talk about issues they have with the culture. The issue I have is if someone paints with such a broad brush, is there sexism in gaming...yes, but what about society in general. Look do I think we need more female character that are strongly developed and don't fall into stereotypes, of course. But doesn't excuse that someone from attack something that they aren't familiar or refuse to give a fair and honest discussion. I am also sad by the reaction towards this woman, if you have an issues...don't go off the deep end with such disturbing attacks, speak up in a calm rational manner.
truer words have never been said
toasatoshi It's a shame that some people can't speak out their thoughts in such a way. Many of these people take self-entitlement to an extreme and ruin the chances of discussing an interesting topic that I personally would have been happy to share opinions on…. I'm glad to know that rational minds think alike, it's a shame there's too few of them.
I think they're more rational than extremes. I the extremes the outliers.
Of course, I am one those folks that went on calm route.
LOLOL
"I don't flag videos"
Says the guy who got his career ruined from being exposed flagging EVERYTHING he possibly could.
LOLOL.
I didn't know it was Mundane Matt in this clip.
That is fucking AMAZING. LEGENDARY.
I like Joe cause he calls it as it is. ( death threats and trolling= bad), but he opened himself up to criticism for glossing over why Anita garners such hate, and glossing over the fact that she has been debunked and shown up for the fraud/con-artist she seems to be.
What she said is not the point and doesn't justify the abuse directed to her.
I agree with Joe on many things but with Anita I am gonna have to draw the line, there is plenty of reasons why people dislike her.
She is intellectually dishonest, silences anyone who dare challenges her arguments, conned thousands of idiots out of 160,000 dollars, stole videos from other youtubers and gave them no credit what so ever, is not actually a gamer as she herself has admitted and much more.
She also has made bad points that can easily be refuted and avoids debates for this reason. She sees a person approaching her wanting a calm and rational debate she will make a 180 and run away like a bat out of hell. There is a reason why she refuses to debate with anyone, as she knows her arguments would be picked to pieces.
I can tell Joe has barely glanced the opposing side of this debacle and made assumptions, mainly based on conjecture.
All Joe needs to do is look at some youtube videos on the opposing side and see that they raise very good points about Anita's arguments and just how flawed and poorly researched they were, but I guess not even Joe is capable of being politically incorrect when Feminism is involved.
Its because of all that I mentioned here and much more is the reason why the gaming community has a bone to pick with Anita, hell even most female gamers hate her guts and that is saying something.
I thought Joe of all people would have been able to see through this, but sadly he left me disappointed.
Oh and as many others have pointed out, men are sexualized too not just in video games but in the media in general. How many guys do you know have the physique of Kratos from God of War? There is tons of male video game characters that are super handsome and have bulging muscles, and many other masculine traits that are considered attractive.
One of many facts that people like Anita overlook (many times intentionally) on a daily basis.
I really wished you researched this a lot more before forming an opinion Joe, there is more to this than what you currently think.
yea but even so, she doesnt deseve death threats and people saying they are going to rape her, which was kind of his point, so thats what he was focusing on, and if that wasnt apparent in those types of comments he saw, I feel he still made a good argument. Not saying I disagree with you about Anita, because I don't, but since he was talking more about how over the top peoples reactions were, I still feel it was a good argument.
While I understand the hatred, and I do understand why she should be disliked and criticized and that she does need to be silenced. But, I think the biggest thing he was attacking was the death and rape threats/comments people were making. I mean, come on, really? Sure, she's ignorant, selfish, etc. But honestly, that's taking it too far.
Wolf Gaming To quote another youtubers excellent comment:
"While I will agree that the backlash against Sarkeesian was insane, Joe completely ignored why there was a backlash in the first place. Instead he pretty much said that anyone that disagrees with her is a child.
I couldn't disagree more. The backlash happened because she tried to impose classic feminist censorship on video games by trying to stamp out everything she sees that offends her."
To further elaborate:
Joe has criticized the opposing side for trying to silence her while also failing to realize that she does the same exact thing. Any attempt to establish dialog between her and the opposing side, she will try to shut down by any means necessary. Any attempt made on her channel to criticize one or several of her points regardless of how calm or rational it may be, is met with the comment being removed and their channel blocked.
Course this obviously leads to her pissing people off even further. I believe what angers people more than anything is that she won't let the other side be heard. The only way they can voice their side is by making youtube videos, to which she never responds to.
There is several people that would kill for the chance to debate her publicly.
Additionally she nit picks the "evidence" she presents to represent the other side and their conduct. Calm and rational people such as you and me she is not interested in. She wants angry, crazy people. She then takes "evidence" of those crazy people, point to it and say this is what the other side looks like. Have I said she is intellectually dishonest?
In a nutshell those crazy people only account for a minority but Anita and Joe both are making them out to be the majority.
Says...
"Men's Rights Advocate first and foremost.
Anti - Feminist
Anti - Circumcision
Fathers Rights Advocate"
...this kind of man.
Or Joe just wanted a piece of Anitas publicity, and make ppl arguing on this video for more viewers
That whole thing about Sarkeesian... I never even heard about it.
Do you live under a rock?
prahanormal Nope.
demilung I haven't heard about Sarkeesian before this video either... >.>
Me too, I guess that's what we get for not using Twitter.
Bradatimrkonja :/ *sigh*
DID HE JUST DEFEND ANITA FUCKING SARKESIAN. Seems like corporate boss owns the angryjoeshow now
see shit like you ....grow up and calm down kid it seems you don't even know what joe is saying ,he's talking about the people's reaction and disgusting things they said to her not defending Anita herself use your little brain son
Happy Life WISH anita deserved every bit of harassment for trying to change the gamer's games just to make money even though she knows it's bullshit.
He didn't defend her at all. You missed the point
i'm glad you edited this. Saw it at release and it pissed me off on how you worded it. The edited part clears up your point a lot more.
Joe don't think long videos Like these aren't going to be watched from start to finish, you can keep me focused on this for each second and that's like it for every of your videos. Keep it like that man! :) 2013 with you was incredible! Even when I was watching live conferences seeing your Tweets at the same time made it feel so much more connected and personal. Can't wait to see what's going to happen this year.
I don't like Anita Sarkeesian but I agree that it's completely disgusting that people have threatened her with rape
i know i completely agree with what your saying while she may be full of shit and have many problems at least people can be civil about it its HER OPINION and we should respect it not threaten her with rape and murder!
Other than most alligations of that were proven to be from herself?
you're right, anita shouldn't receive death threats. she just shouldn't get any more donations
its amazing how many people are misconstruing Joe's arguments about Anita. He doesn't agree with what she does but argues she has the right to an opinion. Regardless of how terrible that opinion is, thats all it will ever be, a fucking opinion. So the amount of hate, death threats, rape threats and such like is completely out of line. If you disagree with her that is completely fine, just be civil about it.
+kingraj333 very well said. sadly by just reading the comments i just get depressed by the state of the gaming community, fortuantely i find yours. thank you for using a bit of rationality
Dumy Jobby i find it sad as well. it seems the gaming community is just growing more and more close-minded and easily offended. I find it really distasteful.
+kingraj333 Her opinion is turning twitter into a censorship and she wants to censor the internet.
Anita is just one of those people that know nothing and take her opinions SO FAR as to attract so much hate from people who disagree.. thats the price for sharing your opinion on the internet, especially one like this.
And warcorpse is the very picture of being rational?
Anita does know what she's talking about because she does a great deal of research on all of the topics she discusses. She backs up her opinions with facts about geek culture in general and it's history.
Not only that but she discusses her opinions in a constructive manner. She never insults her audience or blames them for liking the things she finds offensive. All she is doing is providing a different perspective on video games. So attacking her seems out of line and outrageous.
She is just a person reviewing gaming, and she has the right to post it online without getting harassed. Just like Angry Joe has the right to post this video online without getting similar treatment, too.
Heather N Except she doesn't research her opinions. What you are watching when viewing her videos is conformation bias. She starts off with the conclusion that games are sexist, then she LOOKS for examples in whatever she can find to back up her preconceived notions. When you perform research, you make a hypothesis, then you experiment and/or research, collect data, review and summarize the data, and develop the conclusion.
And she is dishonest to boot. Remember that whole Dino Planet thing she was complaining about? That it was Crystals game, but was rehashed to That god awful Star Fox game to star a male character, and she used this as an example of developers ignoring or abandoning female leads? Well, funny how she never mentions Crystal's brother who was supposed to star with her, while she edited the trailer and gameplay footage to only ever show Crystal.
This is the reason why people hate Anita, because she is twisting this shit around to fulfill a victim spotlight to gain sympathy.
dragonheart967 Unfortunately, it is impossible for any kind of media to not be sexist.
I don't particularly like how males are represented in some games, and I feel that is an affront to me, sure.
But then, that is my opinion, and whether or not there are facts behind it, it doesn't change the fact that what I perceive to be sexist is different to how someone else perceives something to be sexist.
As such, I trust the words of someone called "Feminist Frequency" as much as I would someone called "Women are Shit." It seems unhinged.
Daemoshiin Belmont You would need to give examples of what you think men are shown to be portrayed in ways that may be sexist, because from what I have seen, a surprising amount of people continuously misuse the term sexism.
Exploitation and sexualization of any character regardless of gender is not sexism, they are exploitation and sexualization. For something to be sexist, it would need to be a clear or subtle dislike of the gender as a whole, such as intentionally making all female characters unbearable bitches and just outright terrible portrayals of what a female character would act, and the same goes for male characters as well.
When we clear this mix in vocabulary up, we see that not everything people claim is sexist are sexist thing, what we see are just negative aspects to characters or the use of popularized norms of our culture within given areas(our culture isn't 100% the same all over the country, some areas are just plain different than others).
Except Anita's oppinions are largely (this is coming from a girl, not a man) wrong and she using various tactics to confuse her viewers. Things she has shown were taken out of context by a large degree and the way she words her observations are confusing and made to mislead.
Also she dissed Fem!Shep, who is the better Shepard in Mass effect. If anything, Male Shepard is a Mrs. Man, cause he's horrible. His voice actor is lack luster in all three games and it really grates on the mood. All the lines are pretty much the same, and Fem!Shep's voice actress out shined him.
Also, Fem!Shep has the better romance option, which is Garrus. Tali was cute, but she couldn't compare to the romance with Garrus. It could have been just as good, but again, Male!Shep's voice actor was lack luster and it damaged the charm.
I loved maleshep voice actor just as much as femshep.
'Well bang okay?' I mean, yeah he can be a little lackluster at times, but at the same time Femshep can be too cliche/corny in some moments that made me cringe during the games. However no one is perfect and I love them both and I do realize that it's mostly preference based.
So what? Whether she's right or not is irrelevant. What she said in NO WAY justifies the sexist harassment of Gamergate.
@@generalhorse493 this comment is 6 years old, yo
@@SkeletonsfromHell Point remains.
@@generalhorse493 not really because i never said she diserved that.
6:03 was that an NFL Street reference? THIS IS MY BALL, AND I'M GOIN HOME
It's honestly funny. Had this been Jack Thompson things would be different. Angry Joe would have laid into this guy and not even once care about the harassment and death threats he's received.
+Jo Vonn Or just telling people to stop being children and dicks making death threats over the internet. Regardless of someone's opinion, death threats are NEVER warranted.
Jo Vonn Who said that? If you paid attention in the video that was never once said. All he did was condemn the children making the threats and their childish tantrums.
I didn't know the CZcams copyright policies were this crazy.
You must be new then, just look at the disaster Onision has done, and VenomFangX.
Adam Jensen what did they do?
They wnded up banning 100 people each by abusing the copyright system, and Then acting like the victims after.
Adam Jensen wow is there a video about this?
You should've seen Ubisoft's own videos getting blocked on Copyright Violations on their own channel!
I hope CZcams is going to respond about this content bullshit
They did, and it was sadly a resounding "Fuck you". Google it, they officially released a response and they essentially told us "things are going as planned".
Man, all of the comments below talking about Joe "betraying" gamers to defend and white knight for Anita. At a time like this, I'd like to quote a famous philosopher named Voltaire explain what Joe is talking about: "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
I am rather certain Voltaire would have been on our side, considering Anita is a scam-artist whose rights would have been forfeit in revolutionary days.
True. He'd take our side against her arguments, but he'd be perfectly apt in defending her from death and rape threats. Which should never be sent to anyone, at all.
But the thing with the blatant lies and nonsense arguments is that they can be debunked without threatening physical harm. But I understand what you mean by this is the internet.
Lord Alkair exactly. Nonsense arguments can be easily debunked with basic facts. There are even CZcamsrs like Shaun, hbomberguy, etc., that make entire videos debunking nonsense arguments. Threatening physical harm is a horrible, horrible thing that shouldn't be done. Have those who do that never heard of treat others the way you want to be treated?
Not only is it horrifically immoral, it is also immensely ineffective and makes thing harder for those who just want to debunk nonsense arguments. As someone who dislikes The Last Jedi for legitimate reasons like plot issues, worldbuilding issues, issues in character development, etc., I have found it almost impossible to discuss these things, because of people who spout sexist and racist garbage about the film. Why is it difficult? The people who do that are somehow far more vocal, and I, by sole virtue of disliking The Last Jedi, get lumped in with them and ignored.
Joe seems biased toward women
Go home gamer girl
Briane Nelom How does standing up for a proven liar, one who is a professional victim and scam artist, give you new found respect for someone?
You think she is a professional victim? How do you know that the people who were attacking her were spreading rumors only to spread more hate?
Scam artist? She just expressed her opinion and a ton of trolls on 4chan needed a new target to pick on. People chose to harass her, but even more people chose to help her.
Yes, she said that she has been playing video games since she was 5. Yes, she said that she isn't a fan of video games and doesn't play them in that one video. Have you ever thought that maybe she meant that she started playing video games when she was 5, but didn't play every single day, week, month, or year? Maybe she wasn't interested in the newer games because she saw the lack of good female characters to look up to and rarely came back to see if the industry has changed for the better. If something bothers you, then you can either ignore it and move on or try to do something about it. That's why she made videos and wanted to do a project. She loved video games and wanted to come back to it, so she wanted to do something about it.
Even if you do not like someone's opinion or their methods, you should not let it bother you. That's why I don't give any traffic to those CZcams personalities who are only there to harass her. There's no point. Why people do the same with her if that's how they feel? I respect Angry Joe because he's defending someone who is wrongfully being harassed and threatened. It's like that one person who is defending their classmate when the entire class is bullying that classmate just because that classmate is smart, or someone decided to spread nasty rumors about them because of that...I was that classmate once...and I didn't have someone to defend me. I guess I just relate.
If you don't feel like reading, let me summarize: rumors make her look bad, and Angry Joe is defending her against all of those trolls and bullies. I'll defend her too, because it's disgusting how terribly the gaming community reacted to her videos and opinion. And here I thought the gaming community was improving...
Briane Nelom To be honest they don't like her because she was too harsh on the Trope vs women and its characters on DiD. reviewers should atleast be subtle, fair and honest about the things they present. The case of A.S. that it was't shown fairly between sexes, her opinion wasn't presented well, lack of acknowledgement stories, bias among play options with game-play, bias among gaming characters(including strong females) and sexism of the gaming community. When a community feels theaten or misinterpreted they will respond in an equal or more amplified response
RaymondTr3 I understand. If she has presented her information in a wrong way, be it being biased or not explaining things well, then pointing that out and expressing it is fine. However, death threats and all the unnecessary demonizing of her is not at all a good way to express those points. I understand counter arguments, but hours of rants just because of how much of a (insert insult here) she is isn't right. I never thought that the game community would show such an ugly side in the form of an actual cyber mob.
Briane Nelom Apologies for the wait, I have been preoccupied with other things which came to my attention.
"You think she is a professional victim?" Yes, yes I do. There is no need for a massive, sprawling text about this, when you have the ability to view the multitude of videos on this subject if you please. :D
"How do you know that the people who were attacking her were spreading rumors only to spread more hate?" You seem to confuse legitimate criticisms with trolling. This is a common defense of feminists, being that you write off actual criticism as just "hate".
"Scam artist?" Yes, she made 160 thousand dollars in a kickstarter to use for "research" on videos; not to mention the fact that she makes like what? Two videos a year. That has to be some good research. There has been substantial evidence (hint hint, that video were she specifically says that she does not like video games, hint hint) that she does not play video games, and it is evident from her speeches that she knows nothing about them.
"Yes, she said that she has been playing video games since she was 5." Refer to previous comment, and even if she did, she still knows nothing of the industry. I play football (soccer) and yet I couldn't tell you more than four Football teams and only one or two of the players.
". Have you ever thought that maybe she meant that she started playing video games when she was 5, but didn't play every single day, week, month, or year?" No... not at all. That statement resembles those priests who attempt to misconfigure and twist those horrible quotes in the Bible into something positive.
"Maybe she wasn't interested in the newer games because she saw the lack of good female characters to look up to and rarely came back to see if the industry has changed for the better. " Okay then.
"If something bothers you, then you can either ignore it and move on or try to do something about it. " No, it doesn't bother me at all that imbeciles such as you blindly follow a figure such as her. Lets see...... blind following of leader.... voracious attacks against opposition, regardless of them having legitimate points..... historical revisionism..... huh, this seems like Fascism. Or is it Modern Feminism? I mix up the two a lot due to their similarity. Also, your same logic can be applied upon yourself.
"That's why she made videos and wanted to do a project." No.... no.... she saw how gullible people are, and wanted to cash in on it; perhaps, just perhaps, she started off believing in her irrational principles, but that is far from the case today.
"Even if you do not like someone's opinion or their methods, you should not let it bother you. " I have no idea why you keep rambling on about this. Is that how you view criticism?
"I respect Angry Joe because he's defending someone who is wrongfully being harassed and threatened." Is it right to threaten someone? No. But is being passed off as the inciters of these threats are somehow representative of all those against feminism. That, and I love how she chickened out at the mere mention of violence; if I truly believed in a principle, one which was so important supposedly, and my life were to be at stake if I were to speak, I'm pretty sure I'd still speak. Her actions show how much devotion she has to your movement.
" It's like that one person who is defending their classmate when the entire class is bullying that classmate just because that classmate is smart, or someone decided to spread nasty rumors about them because of that" That isn't a particularly comparable set of analogies, at least in my mind.
This comment will probably just either be censored by Google or you.
the CZcams thing... not really a gaming controversy; it's kind of an all-media controversy. Let me ask you, Joe; if Sarkeesian is entitled to her grossly misrepresenting and extremely misleading points based entirely on half-truths and conjecture, why aren't her detractors entitled to their dissent? Is dissent only valid one way? You make no sense here. Sure, it's absolutely stupid to endorse violence against her, but her detractors have a legitimate point here; if she's not really connected to gaming, isn't really a fan, and doesn't do proper research to back her theories up, is it really fair to have her theory be the only one that gets the spotlight?
She's not out to better gaming, you know. Many WOMEN disagree with her stance, and you seem to ignore that fact. Get feminism out of gaming, it's not doing the art form a lick of good, and it never will.
Just make all the male characters look like Edward Cullen, or have 'em be muscular, waxed and well-oiled but they only wear a thong. Have the females rescue them while they lie around in provocative positions. Then no one can complain. While I think her article went a bit too far, stating that everything she said is inaccurate and untrue, is fallacy. If it wasn't guys wouldn't complain that their girlfriends won't game with them, and there would be a lot more females gaming and having fun with the guys without hiding their gender. Guys want their male power fantasies in their games, I get it. There's nothing wrong with that. There is also nothing wrong with having more games that step outside of that mold either. There is definitely a lot wrong with how many gamer guys treat women they encounter in games. I hear guys all the time say "I wish more girls gamed!" make the hobby more accessible to women and make the community more welcoming and a lil less Neanderthal and girls will game with you. You might like it.
It is not the rational detractors like you who are at the center of the controversy, but the clearly mysoginist and verbaly violent commentators.
HarukoZ001
It's already inclusive. My wife enjoys a wide variety of videogames, and doesn't feel the need for them to be ''girlied up' for her. She's an avid RPG gamer, and the genre has a plethora of strong female characters. The problem is, Anita is ignoring that and pointing a spotlight on popular games such as Mario and Zelda to make it seem as though the industry is 100% anti-woman. It's heavily misrepresenting the facts to make it seem like it truly is a problem! Whatever happened to artistic license? How can we possibly call videogames an artform if we're going to work towards censoring it?
He says in the freaking video that people are free to disagree with her. He says himself that he doesn't agree with a lot of what she says...so what's the point of your question? Don't you even watch videos properly anymore?
teteudeu
unfortunately, the only ones who GET the attention are the irrational ones.
You done fucked it up, AngryJoe.
I'm glad you gave respect to Fish and understood the stress of developing an independent game. It's a good thing there are people who don't just look at phishy and say "FUCK YOU!".
Never heard of anita, but the magnitude of that shitstorm made me lose some faith in humanity.
Then you'd do well to avoid the massive wave of self-justification that follows it. It'll just outright destroy it.
Prophet Tenebrae
True words... the storm that followed the gamespy video even had people trashe her because of that persons sexchange... how is that related to the Gta V review at all. This is sadly something I look upon as a stockholmsyndrom combined with sentiment that I bought, I invested therefore its the best game of the year, and anyone saying otherwise is wrong and needs to be silenced. Its also he mentality; this game, its my favourite franshise anyone talking bad about it need to shut upp... Look at it as a footballsupporter but change teams to corporations... they are always right and flaweless and these people defend everything about them. It gets to a lvl where people outright want to hurt you for saying anything else. Its dangerous and Ive seen this mentality transfer from entertainment unto ideologies, religion etc. You get to a point where you become blinded by what you consider right and what you hate to a degree where you cant step back and think. Its a shame we see it explode onto the internet, and its sad that people are like; its the internet so its ok. I should never be ok to behave like this, never!
that shit shorm almost took off my helmet when i took cover
the gross overreaction comes from HER gross overreaction of videogames.
like thousand of videos, stories and reviews men are as objectified as women.
men dont care, and so should women, she is MAKING A LIVING OF SUCKING THE THOUGHTS OF THE IDIOTIC PEOPLE WHO FOLLOW THE FEMINISTIC MOVEMENT.
she is attacking a complete social base. and when noticed all the hate/success she had, she continue to harvest the idiocy of both, feminist and angry gamers.
she, like pewdiepie, just earns money out of idiots.
1 No
2 No, they aren't (just think about that statement for 1 second) and feminism is important for society,
3 What social base ?
4 What's up with all the pewdiepie hate ?
5 How old are you?
Did she scam kickstarter money? I heard something like that on /v/ not sure if its true or not.
josan14basket no what? if you have an argument, state it, dont just say "no." the gamers social base (huge fucking base) i dont hate pewdiepie, i just state what i see he is one intelligent businessman, im 21 why is it relevant, or are you implying my thoughts are immature?.
ps. i should have added that i dont condone those idiotic commentary and threats towards Anita.
lasarousi AMEN!!! That is how media works. Find peoples trigger, and pull it. Howard Stern proved how well that worked before most of us were born. Feminism relies completely on telling women they are a victim of something, to the point that women in record numbers are now medicated, fearful and angry believing that the world of men owe them something more than what we have given, and men all over are now afraid to approach women with proper male libido for fear of being labeled a creep for being attracted to a girl, leaving young incapable of starting romantic relationships with women. Every girl now has a dozen "guy friends" and each one of those guys thinks that by being a friend to her, that she'll want to start a relationship with him, while she secretly waits for a the right guy to come along. Feminism is poisoning romance. My life with women became a million times better when I started saying to feminism.
lasarousi Calling feminist morons is a really dumb statement. Men OBVIOUSLY don't get 0.1% the objectification women get specially in games .What fucking gross overreaction of videogames. The thing they wrote were unjustifiable.
god you're sooooooooooooooo BANG ON about the anita stuff. Good job Joe, as always mate.
All of these comments like "Bleh lost respect for you because of defending Anita" make me laugh.
Kenny Kosmos well Okay Please think about it listen to Angry Joe please
I don't think they actually have any respect for Joe in the first place if it was easily lost.
Joe Rome II was published by Sega
I'm SO GLAD you mentioned the controversy over Anita Sarkeesian and her Tropes vs Women's video, and I'm SO glad you're against the backlash! I was waiting for you to say something about it, because you NEEDED to mention it, especially since a LOT of gamers follow your show and can listen to you. You explained the controversy PERFECTLY well: it's not about agreeing with her videos or not, but about the awful and ignorant reactions some people have towards the video, and those people seeing it as the normal or right thing to do.
So far, this is the best defense of Sarkeesian's videos I've seen. YOU ROCK!
Yes, let's also talk about the awful and ignorant reactions against the Westboro Baptist Church while we're at it.
TheRexRider Seems you are probably one of the idiots who flamed or would flame Anita Sarkeensian or whatever her name is. Westboro Baptist would be comparable to her if she actively went out to attack and/or demoralize male gamers so your sarcasm is invalid and unappreciated.
vividvandal And it seems you are one of those idiots that defend her without looking at any of her videos. She does exactly that, so your "rebuttal" is invalid and unappreciated.
The only thing I disagree with about his section on Anita Sarkeesian was when he said that no one can take away porn. He should have a chat with David Cameron.
Daniella Dahoui While I do agree that the overdramatic backlashing against Anita is unecessary at the least, there's still the case of how the money Anita got from her kickstarter has been put into use. Its been proven in her videos that she doesnt do the research on the games she features and that she uses gameplay clips without crediting them to their respective owners. There's also her claiming in a number of her interviews that she says to be a fan of gaming but in one particular video clip she admits otherwise and on her twitter claims to have a love-hate releationship to gaming. So there's still some missing pieces there that people seem to overlook in regards to her character and what she stands for.
Crazy looking back at total biscuit. If he were still alive today he’d be devastated and pissed what the hell is going on today.
15:30, my favorite rant.
I will start by saying that everyone that's an online public figure will get a degree of harassment and death threats. That is an unfortunate reality of the internet. Now, Anita probably did get more than the average public figure, but it wasn't because people hate women or are afraid of her. Firstly, she is wrong, causing a good deal of legitimate criticism at her nonfactual arguments. But secondly, she picked a fight. Her videos aren't just criticisms, they are insults. She goes out of her way, not only to point out games she doesn't like, but she accuses the audience of these games of being bad people with insidious thoughts. She begged a fight and got one. Are the rape and death threats ok, no. But is that anger unfounded? Also no. She brought this on herself and there is no one else to blame. Hell, she keeps doing it because its a great bread winner for her. She got on the Colbert Report basically on the back of having slapped someone and then called abuse once she got punched back.
so true
Nah, you're wrong.
If a girl dresses lightly, does she ask for someone to rape her? No
If a girl "insults" men's dominating part of video games, then does it mean that people are free to threaten her to death? NOO! Because then, we become the idiots too! If we'd keep quiet with the insults, *she'd* be the only idiot in this case, but ignorant assholes makes *us* the idiots instead - and that is the main problem here.
Plexy347 I agree with what you say i'm female but I don't agree with here viewes on games at all.
Plexy347 I strongly believe anita did deserve it; liars and incompetent idiots who can't seperate "muh feelings" from their logic deserve no mercy, but that's my personal opinion.
Also a girls who dresses sluty isn't deservant of rape, but not wearing provocative clothing *is a precaution against that* as rapists have been proven to have certain tendacies. If you leave your wallet on the ground in a bad neighborhood, does it deserve to be stolen? No, but it's still a dumb move on your part and you'll probably be ridiculed for it. Same logic applies, if anita wants to make such bold foundless claims on a multi-million person community, you'd best be prepared for a backlash. Regardless of "morals" the internet has always been harsh on stupid.
The only sexism that really is present is benevolent sexism, this uproar was never made when people made flash games about *killing not just bruising* Jack Thompson, or how people literally ran Phil Fish out of the gaming industry. Did people cry sexism against them? If anything she made a career out of other suckers sympathy, she's nothing but a sensitive little bitch who couldn't handle "criticism". :)
TheAmericanSombax I'm sorry, but you're an idiot yourself if you think it's okay to call someone a "sensitive little bitch".