Third Year Context of Practice: Internet Comments and Females in the Industry/Talking about the Industry

It's making me a little bit sad to have to research into this, but here are some of the most ridiculous comments and reactions I found so far on the internet relating to women in the industry or women who have criticised certain aspects of it.

Note that I am only picking out the worst of the comments here, and I obviously don't believe that these kind of comments represent anyone else but the commenter themselves.

These were taken from http://kotaku.com/5886674/bioware-writer-describes-her-gaming-tastes-angry-gamers-call-her-a-cancer

sixrocketUTina AminiL

Now lets see what /v/ has been doing to her.

If this is reddits reaction, /v/ should be even better.

BTW, she is a cancer on the industry. If you dont even like video games get the fuck out of the company and write a book or some TV show.

I've slowly seen bioware games turn into action games, moving away from the traditional RPG roots that made them good. The Mass Effect 3 demo's "lets skip all the story and make it a straight shooter" mode was the latest and best example of this. Now I see who's been helping push this crap behind the scenes, and I cant blame the internet for targeting her

FuktLogikUTina Amini
Bitch is beyond fugly. In regards to her tweet, I'm surprised she'd even bring up the topic of vaginas, since I can't imagine anyone wanting anything to do with one that's attached to her.

Her comeback is the equivalent of "I know you are, but what am I?". I would expect better from a writer, but then we are talking about a writer that had something to do with DA 2. 2/20/12 10:23pm

Anita Sarkeesian

Found from http://kotaku.com/new-anita-sarkeesian-video-looks-at-gamings-ms-male-1466898678

Found from http://kotaku.com/5917623/awful-things-happen-when-you-try-to-make-a-video-about-video-game-stereotypes

And in the comments section...

What the fuck is wrong with Kotaku lately. This is like the 5th pro feminist article in less than a week. If this stupid cunt doesn't understand "sex" sells yet she should use that money to buy a fucking clue. All male characters are usually beefy or handsome, what is this cunt's deal? If she can't accept that sex sells, she can move to the middle east where women are covered in bee keeper suits all day long. My girlfriend plays videogames a lot, she never goes "omfg I am so pissed the female characters are too hot." Reminds me of the violent videogames bullshit arguments. Sometimes I wish the world would bring back firing lines and take morons like this cunt and do away with them. Stop blowing shit out of context for attention. Kotaku please flag feminist articles with a mark on the headline so I save myself 3-5 minutes and a few iq points. Shes obviously trolling for attention and creatind controversy to sell her bullshit, and on top of that shes Kickstarting 60$k to laugh away to the bank with. 6/12/12 5:20am

The last comment "we want to be equal, we are superior" is pretty spot on. Especially nowadays.. give a girl a home and they cook for you, give a girl the right to vote and now theyre better than you -.-'

Equality doesnt exist, but you can treat everyone individually with respect on a per person basis cause lets face, some woman DO need a smack to the face cause the whole "your not a man if you hit a woman" thing is being taken advantage of something fierce.. ever had that happen to you? Even worse if the bitch hits you cause your like "oh fuck can i hit her back yet? dammit people will make fun of me!"

but this broad feels the need to control a developers work cause she finds it offensive? riiight. 6/12/12 12:28am

Found from

http://www.feministfrequency.com/2012/06/harassment-and-misogyny-via-wikipedia/