Flash Game Makes Players Beat Up "Tropes vs. Women" Creator

[Hjalmar Fryklund]

Well, I was reading the SA thread, saw the link, asked myself "what's the worst thing that could happen?" clicked, and immediately regretted that decision. Then I googled this guy's username (bendilin). He's apparently pretty known (also as losttrap) for being completely insane.

EDIT: He also has a youtube channel, which is every bit as unintentionally hilarious as you might imagine.

I think I'll pass on the youtube channel. I wonder exactly what the links between his furry porn/tentacle rape and his silly little flash game, are.

On closer thought, I am not really in the mood to muse on that today.

[sub]EDIT: Fan, han svalde inte betet![/sub]

 

[Otaku World Order]

Yes, let us show that gamers are not misogynistic by creating a game to beat up a woman!

*sigh*...

To the idiots who created this, I have to ask...

 

[Use_Imagination_here]

Meh, if it was about beating a man nobody would care.

That maybe true but it's still fucked up. One wrong doesn't make the other right a wrong after all.

 

[TwiZtah]

I can only think about how many games there are where you torture Osama or Saddam Hussein. But that's okay right?

 

[Knight Templar]

I can only think about how many games there are where you torture Osama or Saddam Hussein. But that's okay right?

Did you just compare Feminist Frequency with a terrorist group and brutal dictatorship?

 

[CosmicCommander]

OK, this is dumb.

But it still doesn't exclude the fact the woman is a hack. Coincidentally, I was just watching this:

I've said it before but I think it bears repeating.
If you feel a video is necessary to make your point you need to find a better one, because anything coming from somebody so attached to 4chan (/v/ to be more precise) and trolling will only undermine your point.
It's like a video on the downsides to affirmative action coming from stormfront. It may well have good points but it has no credibility.

I wasn't using it to make a point. I just happened to be watching it when I came on.

And I wasn't even aware of the creator's links to 4chan or such. I just found it a damn good video. I find if you care more about the creator than the content, you're just a person who can't defeat an argument without resorting to ad hominem attacks. It's a trend that's a bit tiring; because you don't like the individual and whatever the hell they've done, you discard their points. It's intellectually backwards and it only contributes to ignorance, hyperbole, and irrelevance.

The guy made a good video. That's all there damn well is to it.

 

[TwiZtah]

I can only think about how many games there are where you torture Osama or Saddam Hussein. But that's okay right?

Did you just compare Feminist Frequency with a terrorist group and brutal dictatorship?

No, what I was getting at was the hypocrisy, no one would care if we were beating up a man, whatever his occupation would be. But if so much as the wind blows on a womans skin, it's rape, assault and every other thinkable shit.

Edit: I'm not pro-hitting women, I just think the whole debate has gotten out of hand.

 

[Frankster]

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Whining about how the internet is? I don't think you're getting my point (it's not internet specific, it's more about idiot teen males doing idiot teen things). Internet is just where everyone gets to spout their views, no matter how idiotic they are and to "change" it would require people to change, specifically idiotic teens with all sorts of issues, not the net. Getting annoyed as you're obviously labeling me as something I'm not and assigning views I don't have. But not surprised and it feeds into my cynical view even more overall.

Don't buy what? I'm telling you as it is , that some teen is being an idiot and made a flash cartoon in an afternoon as is the norm for newgrounds. And you're getting in arms over it cos it happened to be a hot topic issue and you're already emotionally involved in it (you mentioned having already donated. Again how do you feel about britney spears and other peeps who got worst treatment then this? Its exact same situation you know). If anything the guy making the vid would smile if he ever got to see all this (as you're being shown to people like me that you're donating for wrong reasons). Two wrongs don't make a right especially if the cause you're fighting for is the "right" one. Why you gotta act like the immature teens you're denigrating?

And...Ok yeah, I was about to continue typing a paragraph for almost each sentence said as I really didn't agree or found some points just silly (will just say that the last remark in particular seriously made me lose respect for ya in the sense i'll be less inclined to believe anything you say if that's what you honestly believe is acceptable justification, nevermind it feeding into the whole "you're acting like a tool" thing i initially said) but really there's no point, both our stances have been crystalized now so let's part on a relatively civil manner and agree to disagree.

 

[GundamSentinel]

I don't agree with Sarkeesian, and I find her whole goal of making video's about kicking in open doors pretty stupid (combination of low-hanging fruit and doubtful intentions), but this game is just in very bad taste. This is just a completely wrong way of disagreeing with someone.

Then again, all these "I've lost faith in humanity" reactions in this thread are equally absurd and useless.

 

[Toilet]

Your rights end where my feelings begin. [http://swfchan.org/1193/]

Go crazy.

 

[Knight Templar]

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You don't think that the creator coming from a place that celebrates sexism and trolling should raise any questions?
The video does make genuine arguments. Thats not my problem and if you think I disagree with it as a whole, then I am sorry for the mistake, no need to attack me over it.

No, what I was getting at was the hypocrisy, no one would care if we were beating up a man, whatever his occupation would be.

And you think the best people for this example are terrorists and dictators? Wanting to hit somebody because they have killed countless people, and wanting to hit somebody because they have an opinion you dislike are not the same thing. Not even a little bit.

But I would care, depending on the person. I don't care that dead murders have these things made about them, but that has nothing to do with their gender.

 

[Wintermoot]

yeah that,s really not going to prove her point and makes her totally not hate people with the XY chromosome.

 

[MeChaNiZ3D]

I would replace "Makes" with "Invites". The key thing to remember about any game is that no matter how s*** it is, or what political point it makes, or what it tries to get you to think...you don't have to play it. I say if someone wants to make a flash game wherein the player beats up Anita Sarkeesian, ok. If people want to play that game, ok. I am neither of those people, and am content with merely not having anything to do with it.

 

[PurePareidolia]

She's making a video series on the internet. What the hell is wrong with people?

Ignoring for a start that the majority of people's arguments against her, even "serious" ones are absolutely abysmal, the only possible outcome of this is to stifle discussion and scare people out of a proper debate. It's not her fault if she's not listening to the vast majority of her detractors - the fact there is a vast majority detracting from her directly causes the situation and yet people still blame her for not having the time or energy to engage with them.

Now apparently people here think she made that herself. Uh, her Kickstarter's closed guys - she can't actually benefit from that, nor does she given the genuine controversy was big enough that anyone who cares already knows about it.

God damn it, this is the exact same logic as the 9/11 truth stuff - "Isn't that convenient? Guess she did it herself! That's logic!".

 

[CosmicCommander]

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You don't think that the creator coming from a place that celebrates sexism and trolling should raise any questions?
The video does make genuine arguments. Thats not my problem and if you think I disagree with it as a whole, then I am sorry for the mistake, no need to attack me over it.

No worries; but before I go let me present you with my own anecdote that I find to be relevant. Many of my family are racists and are in the BNP. It's not something I'm proud of, but they're my family -- I'm not going to distance myself from them.

Does this fact exclude me from partaking in the political process?

 

[Gather]

I agree with the sentence "As long as it is made, it isn't a scam" but you're also talking about $160,000. She has just "earned" 3 years of income for a lot of people inside of a month (53k a year). How can you prove 100% of that money will be used to make the video in a timely manner?

Or on the uglier side of the coin: What if it was made by her in order to get more free media?

 

[Hiroshi Mishima]

Guys these kinda games have been around since the dawn of the internet, quite litterally and portray a wide variety of people from bin laden to probably obama and other world leaders (i remember bush getting tons back in the day) to pop stars like britney spears.

Honestly, this is the kind of thing that makes this sorta situation so volatile to begin with. You're using the excuse of, "it's been around a long time, so it's perfectly okay," to rationalize the existence of these things. And yes, I know they've been around pretty much since Newgrounds was invented and Flash games became popular, doesn't mean we have to like or even accept that.

I deliberately haven't been following this person's stuff or the articles about her, because I frankly don't really care about it. I do have an issue with the things she's supposedly fighting, and things such as this (and the threats) really prove our point about there being something dreadfully wrong in the game community. The fact that this kind of reaction happens at all is a sure sign that there's a problem.

What bothers me is that so many people either refuse to admit it even exists, or flat-out defend it. Saying you disagree and then going on to attempt a counter-argument is not only fine, it's encouraged. But if you genuinely think that "I'm gonna rape and kill you" is an appropriate response to someone female for saying ANYTHING negative about something within the game community is fucking okay, then you need your head examined.

Not meaning that is in YOU you, but "you" as in the general public. Sorry if that wasn't clear.

I mean, gods, look at me! I say bad shit about the gaming community all the time, but I'm a guy and nobody's threatened to molest me yet! I'm just as unpleasant to look at as she is, maybe I should feel left out? D:

 

[Kahunaburger]

God damn it, this is the exact same logic as the 9/11 truth stuff - "Isn't that convenient? Guess she did it herself! That's logic!".

Don't expect logic from these ppl - it's very much a "she's saying mean things about my toys T.T" sort of thing. Or in this guy's case, that plus him apparently being crazy.