In advance of the ABC story about Anita Sarkeesian receiving anonymous threats online, I just wanted to remind everyone that she posted a murder-fantasy where she kills videogame designer Randy Pitchford by shooting him three times

rogersmith25 · 2013-10-17T16:44:50+00:00

EDIT: Excuse me, but I should have linked to the ABC story post for context. When I posted this, it was the top post on /r/mensrights so I assumed everyone would have read the story to understand what I am referring to...

Can someone please explain to ABC that, in order to report on an issue impartially, they cannot excuse Sarkeesian's overt violent threats as "satire" or "a joke" if they are going to attribute random anonymous troll comments to the MRM?

Let's not forget that "false flag" attacks, where someone threatens themself and pretends to be a member of the other side, have been proven to occur and likely happen all the time on many issues.

rapey_raperson · 2013-10-17T19:45:06+00:00

Good post. Demonizing men seems to work for her; it's OK for her to post a story about murdering a real person, because that person is male and, hence, not human.

rogersmith25 · 2013-10-17T23:20:58+00:00

It's stupid to take the Pitchford story seriously as a death threat. But at least doing so would be consistent with taking YouTube comments seriously as rape threats. All or nothing. Personally, I take neither seriously.

romulusnr · 2013-10-17T22:00:44+00:00

She posted a story where she was included as a character?

Not wrote it herself?

Lurker_IV · 2013-10-18T01:53:40+00:00

This reminds me of the whole Jack Thompson videogame ragefest from back in 2005. For those who don't remember Jack Thompson was a lawyer who was on a 'god given' crusade against the video-game industry because of their patent hypocrisy and recklessness exhibited by the video game industry's willingness to target cops, women, homosexuals, and other groups with some of their violent games.

etc.

Anyways Jack Thompson proposed something of a murder-fantasy of his own where the father of a boy who was killed (supposedly) because of violent videogames went on a vengeance spree killing videogame designers and he said he would donate $10,000 to charity for whoever did it.

Well, of course, someone DID MAKE IT, Jack Thompson reneged on his promise and so Penny Arcade stepped in and donated the $10,000 themselves. Good times, great story.

Wouldn't it be hilarious if someone made some of these Sarkeesian styled murder-fantasies into videogames as well. Maybe we could even get people to donate $10,000 to a cause of our choosing as well.

http://hellfish.gtajunkies.com/Story.html

http://www.joystiq.com/2005/10/17/thompson-breaks-his-word-on-10k-bounty-says-he-was-just/

baskandpurr · 2013-10-17T22:17:59+00:00

I find it telling that this story goes into great detail about killing game developers and ends when it comes to actually making a game.

IMULTRAHARDCORE · 2013-10-17T23:58:09+00:00

Anita Sarkeesian should be given no credit because she is a lying con artist first and foremost. I still can't believe any organization gives her the time of day let alone features her in a piece like this. The murder fantasy fanfic thing is just icing on the cake.

rg57 · 2013-10-18T01:27:41+00:00

This will, of course, be completely ignored by 20/20 and the ten people who watch it.

Are you sure this is a Feminist Frequency tumblr? It has their name, but I cannot find where they link to it from their main site.

bktallguy · 2013-10-18T02:09:52+00:00

Anita Sarkeesian is a terrible person. However why do idiot fucks troll her online? All it does is make people feel sorry for her and make us look stupid. Feminism is based on victimhood, they need people to believe theyre always the victim.

Even though men are trolled online with threats of violence all the time. Of course its much worse when its a feminist being trolled

UltraMegaMegaMan · 2013-10-17T21:56:33+00:00

This is news? Who doesn't get death threats online? That would be an actual story if someone went online and wasn't threatened.

Anyone who's never gotten death threats has obviously never played League of Legends or Call of Duty.

jonnytechno · 2013-10-18T13:05:31+00:00

It's important that we complain to any and all governing bodies and complaints procedures for all networks that air the show, both before and after its airing ... though it won't stop or alter the show IMO it will at least send a strong signal to networks et al that this shit is not acceptable

2013-10-18T15:23:01+00:00

But it's okay for her because women getting murdered is a real problem while men getting murdered isn't. I mean, when men get murdered, women are the REAL victims. /s

prodevel · 2013-10-18T16:11:56+00:00

She clung for dear life to Spider-man as he swing through the air.

Is English her second language? Does she not own a decent word processor? I didn't bother reading after this second sentence.

Edit: I realized someone else wrote it for her.

malaleuca · 2013-10-18T23:51:25+00:00

The show has been postponed. 2 possibilities: 1) 2000 comments, mainly from MRAs, extremely critical, including lotsa personal statements about Vargas and her producers, or 2) NBC decided not to give MRAs the attention, once they figured out that was the general idea.

Chance of this show ever showing up? Zip.

Now the question: who benefited? Seems to me that we shot ourselves in the foot. It would have been better not to brigade and scare them off. No attention now, negative OR positive.

Estephe · 2013-10-19T04:28:56+00:00

There is an enormous market for women who are addicted to novels and true-crime TV shows about women being brutally victimized, There is a disturbing complex fantasy life there that people do not talk about. Fun with victim fantasy. Srakesian sees the $ in exploiting female victimhood-fantasy-dramaqueening-kinkiness. She's no foll. She's a narcissistic opportunist.

einexile · 2013-10-18T06:34:23+00:00

I hope the Earth gets swallowed up by the Sun and everyone on it dies.

BalllsackTBaghard · 2013-10-17T20:07:57+00:00

OP this is tumblr level of retardation. Don't post this here.

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