My problem with her use of that clip was that she attached it to an argument about females lives being sort of seen as worthless and didn't talk about the fact that this was what that plot was meant to be about. She was seen as worthless by those humans because she was an elf and if you play female your male elf fiance gets pretty much the same treatment for pretty much the same reasons the same reasons.
So yeah it just about fits the trope but not really for the reasons she claimed and her gender was arguably not that important, this is the case with a lot of her examples.
I don't understand this argument, it makes no logical sense yet people keep making it.
No it hasn't.
I have been following this discussion, Anita had literally nothing to do with it until she released a video in the middle of it and received death threats, Those threats were blamed on the gamers even though it has now been proven that they had nothing to do with the issue. As I said already, people on both sides of this discussion have behaved horribly.
If you guys wanna talk about this I suggest you take it to PM's. I am happy for anyone to PM me on the issue I have done a lot of research into this recent scandal as well as into Anita's work, her supporters and her critics.
I think your claims to have researched this a lot is a boast. If you had its pretty easy to show that the initial claims the lead to the "Ethics in gamer journalism" front are false.
http://deadspin.com/...erga-1646145844
"It's important to note that the initial claim that sparked Gamergate was not only untrue, but totally nonsensical—neither Grayson nor anyone else even reviewed the game at Kotaku, and while Grayson did write about Quinn in late March in a feature about a failed reality show, that was before they'd begun their romantic relationship. Nevertheless, fevered accusations that Quinn had traded sex for press began to float around online, and Quinn's sexual history and nude photos were spread around 4chan and IRC. Logs of conversations among her harassers show them to have been unimaginably toxic:"
http://www.newsweek....amergate-278063
"GamerGate was spawned from an accusation in August that an independent video game developer—Zoe Quinn—had been involved personally with a video games journalist—Nathan Grayson—and that Grayson had written about Quinn’s video game, Depression Quest favorably, as a result of their relationship. Such an arrangement would have been a serious breach of journalistic ethics, but Grayson’s employer, Gawker Media, maintains no such thing happened. Grayson did write about Quinn once—for an article about a reality show—but this was before they got involved personally, said Stephen Totilo, editor-in-chief of Kotaku, a Gawker Media–owned blog about video games.
In theory, GamerGate is about preventing relationships between video game developers and video game journalists from becoming too cozy. In practice, however, it is a tidal wave of online misogyny directed against women like Anita Sarkeesian—who dare speak up against sexism in video games."
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