I will pride myself on trudging through two parts of Anita's "analysis" of women's roles in video gaming (Damsel in Distress 1&2), that still doesn't mean that I didn't suffer acid reflux from it. Anita is one of those feminists that you cannot find any middle ground with, you're either an "educated" SJW or a misogynist man; there is no winning the argument with people like her. Despite the fact that she takes many of her clips from Retsupurae and other sources (and does not credit them) or the fact that she FREQUENTLY takes scenes out of context (I point specifically to her use of cut scene footage from Ninja Gaiden[2:31] Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II[2:33] Deadlight[2:43] and Ninja Gaiden II[2:46], I will go into those later), the fact that she has the audacity to make the claim that even though that there are strong and well written female characters(which she still complains weakens their character when and IF they are captured at some point), the very fact that any form of harm befalls a member of the XX chromosome is obviously some patriarchal plot of misogyny (whether intentional or incidental). Such as when she goes on about how when women are captured they wait for their heroes to save them but when a man is captured, they engineer their escape (she uses footage of Metal Gear Solid during this tirade, which if she played the game, she would know that the one female character in distress[Meryl Silverburgh] actually does manufacture her own escape before even meeting our protagonist [Solid Snake]), though for the most part the reason for this is because most characters that get captured either have no capability of performing such an action (Princess Peach or civilian characters) or it's just a one-time thing (most military female characters).
When she shows the footage from the games I listed above, while she does tell you the games they are from, she portrays them in such a way that you are meant to feel like there is some sort of injustice going on, even though it's just semi-decent storytelling (btw SPOILERS). For example in Star Wars: TFU2, we see Darth Vader force choking Juno Eclipse, (our protag. Star Killer's romantic interest) the reason for this is not because Lord Vader hates women, but because he knows that Star Killer has romantic feelings for her and that by killing her, he would enrage our protag. and drive him further to the Dark Side of the force (the philosophy behind which is that strong emotion is what strengthens a Sith's power). In Ninja Gaiden I and II, our leading ladies have been captured by very large and very powerful Greater Fiends (specifically Rachel & Doku and Sonia & Alexei, respectively) Rachel was to be used as a sacrifice to open a portal to the underworld, and Alexei is just a weird androgynous demon who gets his kicks out of being evil. Now Deadlight is the toughest example to explain (but not impossible), in the midst of a zombie outbreak, a Big Brother-esque authoritarian government is taking all sanctions possible to both prevent contamination and to garner information about our protag. so in an attempt to do both, they take off her clothes (above the underwear) and toss her in the showers immediately taking a fire hose to her, they are subsequently killed by our protagonist.
What really tweaks my torque is the fact that every time you see her in some mainstream media outlet she professes on how much of a "gamer" she is (in her use of this terminology she is making obvious connections to the realm of competitive gaming[your Call of Duty, Halo and Battlefield players{specifically multiplayer} and their ilk]), yet there is a video on YouTube by a channel called "Flying Turkeys"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcPIu3sDkEw, that shows footage of her saying "I'm not a fan of video games, I actually had to learn a lot about video games in the process of making this." So which is it Anita? She then goes on to say, "I would love to play video games, but I don't want to go around shooting people, and ripping off their heads and it's just gross so..." I guess games like Cooking Mama, The Sims, Super Mario Bros, Sly Cooper, and Spongebob just don't exist. If you want an actual intellectual giving her two cents, here's another video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MxqSwzFy5w
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