Anita Sarkeesian and Women in Video Games

I fail to see how sexism versus men is not as serious, or doesn't effect men in the same way it does women. In my mind, any form of discrimination is a bad thing.Actually it's not different. The motivations for doing so may be different, but ultimately, if you're going to complain about the ideal female being portrayed in video games, then you must also have a problem with the ideal male, otherwise you're simply committing special pleading in favour of the one you don't support. Also, what evidence is there that female characters serve only, or at least mainly, for the purpose of titillating the male audience? I can think of plenty of female video game characters who clearly aren't meant to just be there to be sexy. Samus from Metroid, or Tali from the first Mass Effect, Kat from Halo: Reach, Bonnie Macfarlane from Red Dead Redemption... I could go on. And I also don't see how there is more variation for male characters over females. Link isn't feminine, he's a young man wielding the master sword and chopping animals to pieces. I'll concede Mario, however his character was made back in the 1980s, when the video game industry was just taking off and story or character development wasn't their biggest concern. And what, tall, feminine forms that know how to destroy enemies and sass characters (case in point: Lara Croft, Faith from Mirror's Edge, Joanna Dark, Commander Shepard, etc.) are NOT positive traits? You may say that not every woman wants to be seen with big breasts or a busty figure. Well, not every man wants to be seen as muscle-bound or womanizers either. And in what way are the plentitude of female protagonists in games shallow? There are a few exceptions, but most of them I see are powerful characters. How do you mean "judges"? Because there are plenty of fields where that's not true. In job interviews for example, women aren't treated very differently. You dress appropriately and professionally, and if your skills are sufficient, you get the job. I've often said that corporations are sociopathic; they don't care about you as a person, they care about what you can add to their machine. Sure there are exceptions, but for the majority, its simply untrue. If you're talking about modelling, of course you're judged by your body. If you're talking about dating, once again, of course you're judged for your body; the exact same way that men are.Not really. What does $6000 pay for? A couple months rent? Maybe some bills. If we're talking in terms of the project, speaking as one who visits game shops on a regular basis, that's easily enough to buy you every game she posed with. Let's factor in some video editing software for another couple hundred, maybe a new camera for a couple thousand: ultimately she needs maybe ten thousand. I'd like to know where the other 140k went. No, actually I didn't agree on that, so please don't put words in my mouth. I actually didn't concede anything on the field of whether or not the threats were sexist. I said that most of the threats were not to be taken seriously. And I don't think that the threats towards her were sexist; I think that those threats came from the safety of anonymity and the reinforcement of a mob mentality. If you want to say that the insults were directed at the fact that she's a woman: well of course they were. Insults generally trend towards attacking a very obvious component about you. Skin colour, gender, body shape, etc. I also didn't say that the internet fosters sexist behavior; I said the the safety created by the internet, reinforced by the mob psychology, makes it easier for people to say outrageous thinks and desensitizes us to insults. For example: You would NEVER hear some kid say he had sex with anothers mom in a video arcade thirty years ago; he would have gotten the crap beaten out of him.