 Feminist Frequency is a genius of the long con. But then, so are the parties responsible for feminism. Nothing entraps women more than the myth of the ‘bad man’ who’s out there and gonna getcha if you don’t do as you’re told.

 As a Choice Feminist the kind of viewpoints that Anita Sarkeesian espouses worry me a great deal. Her media critiques are under researched, using cherry picked footage and emotive language to fit a narrative rather than any kind of factual analysis. Even more concerning is that she presents her perspectives as facts rather than the assertions that they are and she point blank refuses to address anyone with legitimate concerns about the validity of her work, she instead chooses to lump them in with those that she claims are harassing her. The messages that Anita delivers about feminism as a movement are incredibly troubling. As demonstrated by her speech at the ‘How To Be A Feminist’ panel at the All About Women event of 2015 Anita seems to feel that women having individual choice and agency regarding their lives is actually bad for feminism as a movement, this is actually baffling to me as a believer in women expressing individual freedoms as feminist empowerment and liberation. Feminism exists to achieve Gender Equality and yet Anita seems to believe that women as individuals only exist as far as what they can do to assist in the continuation of the feminist movement. Her speech asserted that women must consider, when making choices, that they may be inadvertently supporting patriarchal systems and that every woman, even if if is to her detriment to do so, must take the burden of responsibility for all women and for the feminist movement. Curtailing women’s freedom in the name of feminism to me is not liberating or empowering, in fact it is oppressive and an ideological prison. This substitution of perceived patriarchal gate-keeping with feminist authoritarianism is a fundamental betrayal of everything that feminism and left wing cultural critique is supposed to supposed to stand for. The worst part is Anita’s insistence that she is an advocate working for the benefit of womankind while she actively silences, or blatantly ignores, any woman that dares to disagree with her.

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 Idiot.

 Whether or not Anita wants to continue, whether or not she finds examples that she truly believes are sexism, she has over a hundred thousand dollars of backers forcing her to follow through. Personally I think that this is why FemFreq cherrypicks, twists context, and makes mountains out of molehills. She has to.

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 I think she doesn’t know much about video games or women and minorities in video games.

 It aggrieves me that anybody could think that Feminist Frequency offers an accurate insight on games and the average experience of female gamers. She is horribly out-of-touch with the gaming community. Her “analyses” have been torn to shreds countless times for factual inaccuracy but she pretends the only dissent she receives is of a threatening nature and purely because she is female. Not to mention her draconian sex negativity, her insistence that only men appreciate the female form in video games and the belief that people feel compelled to act in reality in the same way they act in video games, despite evidence to the contrary. I have never experienced misogynistic abuse for being a female gamer. If you’re a good team player, you’re appreciated. That’s it.

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 I personally do not value the opinions of pop culture critics when it comes to my media as I prefer to come to my own conclusions without relying on the subjective judgements of someone else. Although I may not agree with the Feminist Frequency staff, I can say this: my public rebuttals to their stances have introduced me to some of the best people I would have otherwise never met.

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 When one looks for sexism in every nook and cranny, you’re going to find it. And Sarkeesian does this. She already came to her conclusion, “games are sexist”, and finds things that support that argument. And this is incredibly disingenuous and only does the gaming industry, and women that want to get into the gaming industry, harm. When you use scare tactics to say that everything is sexist, that everything is evil, that everyone is out to get you as a woman, then women aren’t going to want to go into that field. They’re going to stay as far away from that field as possible.

(Editor’s Note: Ladies! Do you, or your female friends have something to say about Feminist Frequency? Well, we will be doing a series of this exact article, collecting quotes from all the wonderful ladies of the internet on what they think, exactly, of the work Feminist Frequency does. So if you’d like to add your two cents, venture on over to the Contact page and let us know what you think, and you could be included in Round Two of “Here’s What Women Think of Feminist Frequency.”

Disclosure: One of the quotes gathered did indeed come from my daughter.)