Alchanii
A commentary here and there, but most of the videos I do are things that nobody will pay attention to.
I'm on Twitter.
And Steam.
And Raptr.
And Facebook.
AND Blip.
And I'm sure I'm missing a ton of other things, but look at this list already. It's insane.
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[WARNING]
Spoilers! Do not read if you have not finished ME3 or wish to avoid spoilers for the ending.
Alright. I’ve been...
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Mitch notes a recent internet controversy regarding a writer’s review dragging The Witcher 2’
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Sometimes I think that some people are intentionally stupid because they know it's easier for you to give up than it is for you to actually bother...
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Two stories intertwine: Playing through Dear Esther and witnessing, from afar, one’s own relationship coming to an end.
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I have no problem with blip promoting anyone they like. I think plenty of people will tune in to see FeministFrequency and realize that she is...
The Avengers is the best movie. Better than Inception
Mitch notes a recent internet controversy regarding a writer’s review dragging The Witcher 2’s Metacritic score down from a 90 to an 89 (the horror!). He suggests commenters calm down, cool off, and come at these issues with a cool head. If they still can’t, maybe, just maybe, it’s time to write that nasty blog post or comment.
Thank you. Good read.
Because “winning” a debate the easy way means you are the best, around.
Completely ignoring the fact that the easy way is almost never the right way.
Two stories intertwine: Playing through Dear Esther and witnessing, from afar, one’s own relationship coming to an end.
The discrepancies between the things we saw in Dear Esther, the differences in our playthroughs that I deemed him “crazy” for – these merely echoed our relationship. I had grown tired and impatient after more than three years of a relationship that simply did not advance, a relationship that trapped me in its stagnation and my own inaction. I distanced him deliberately; I believed this island of Esther‘s limbs my own journey to undertake.
Williams, Katie. “Esther’s Bones” (Unwinnable: April 27, 2012) <http://www.unwinnable.com/2012/04/27/esthers-bones/>.
I have no problem with blip promoting anyone they like. I think plenty of people will tune in to see FeministFrequency and realize that she is pretty goddamn silly. Let’s just think about what she does: she scours popular TV shows and movies looking for sexism. Just think about all of the problems inherent to that endeavor:
1. If you’re looking for it, of course you’re going to find it. During the red scare, some people saw communists behind every bush, hiding in every shadow. Today, parents think that any male who even looks at their kids in passing is a pedophile. And feminist frequency looks at TV and movies and sees sexism in every joke, in every character motive, in every plot and subplot. She’s a hysterical witch-hunter. We’ve seen her kind before and will see it again.
2. There is a tacit assumption in what she does that media shapes society and to a large extent, which I think is debatable. In my opinion, it’s far more often the other way around. Am I saying that media has no impact? Certainly not. I’m a fan of Joseph Campbell’s “The Power Of Myth.” I believe stories have power. But, I also think that society has power of story-tellers. The stories people hear are, by and large, the stories they want to hear.
3. Even if we accept the initial premise that sexist is rampant in movies and television and that this has a profound impact on society, is the answer really to just make videos whining about it? Why not, instead, try to
- Empower female storytellers (whose visions will, presumably, be over-all less male-centric)
- Educate male storytellers about sexism, not with condemnation, but with understanding.
- Promote material that isn’t sexist, so that studios see that egalitarian program is a better bet.
