Jay Smooth Calls On Men To Challenge Anti-Feminist Internet Trolls

[boston bean]

All feminist blogger Anita Sarkeesian wanted to do was create a new project aimed at examining common tropes in video games through a feminist lens. Sarkeesian, who blogs at FeministFrequency.com, was hoping that the new web series “Tropes vs. Women in Video Games,” would offer a new, in-depth view on gender representation in video games and throughout gaming culture. She needed $6,000 to fund the venture, so she launched a Kickstarter campaign (the video for the project is after the jump), and pledged to make the web series available free online upon completion.

No big deal, right? It should have been a simple project to get support for and fund. But then her project caught the attention of anti-feminist, anti-woman trolls.

Within hours, a slew of misogynist — and anonymous — Internet trolls descended upon Sarkeesian’s Kickstarter page and her Wikipedia page, leaving comments calling her a slut, a bitch and countless other slurs. As Sarkeesian noted on her own site:

The intimidation and harassment effort has included a torrent of misogyny and hate speech on my YouTube video, repeated vandalizing of the Wikipedia page about me, organized efforts to flag my YouTube videos as “terrorism”, as well as many threatening messages sent through Twitter, Facebook, Kickstarter, email and my own website. These messages and comments have included everything from the typical sandwich and kitchen “jokes” to threats of violence, death, sexual assault and rape. All that plus an organized attempt to report this project to Kickstarter and get it banned or defunded

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http://www.thefrisky.com/2012-06-20/jay-smooth-calls-on-men-to-challenge-anti-feminist-internet-trolls/

video at link....

[seabeyond]

1. i love this guy.

if you do not see a lot of activity, he was in this forum over the weekend and taken to gd too. so we have discussed him. but, he is a kick ass dude and is perfect in all he says. everything about him is cool.

[One_Life_To_Give]

2. As a World of Tanks player could use some suggestions

Not a hardcore player but on intermittently. Mostly I think it's comments from young boys that are just plain sexist and inappropriate. And while I have been tempted to make a response. I really don't know what to type that might improve the situation. Anybody have experience with what works?