Talk:Feminist Frequency

Dumping of things related to Fem Freq
FemFreq is a Charity: http://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/2nzd5k/feminist_frequency_is_a_registered_charity/

2012 Study on Sexism in Gaming: http://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/2m42sa/2012_study_tries_to_establish_causal_link_between/

Cainejw's analysis of femfreq: http://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/2nxl0c/dishonesty_feminist_frequency_an_analysis_all/

Criticism of Damsel Pt2: http://www.reddit.com/r/truegaming/comments/1j4xqc/shadows_of_the_damned_and_tropes_vs_women_part_2/

https://archive.today/tX3Jq

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http://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/2lj9d4/potentially_interesting_info_about_feminist/

http://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/2nzd5k/feminist_frequency_is_a_registered_charity/

http://naughtynerdess.tumblr.com/post/79025483221/internet-detectives

Dishonesty: Feminist Frequency, Part 1

https://archive.today/XaeuZ

- CrazedMan (talk) 13:44, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

https://archive.today/5VgU4

- CrazedMan (talk) 06:20, 11 December 2014 (UTC)

FEMFREQ-Form 1023.pdf

- CrazedMan (talk) 12:24, 19 December 2014 (UTC)

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- CrazedMan (talk) 14:37, 19 December 2014 (UTC)

Dishonesty: Feminist Frequency, Part 2 — Damsels in Distress Pt. 1

Dishonesty: Feminist Frequency, Part 3— Damsels in Distress Pt. 2

Dishonesty: Feminist Frequency, Part 4 Damsels in Distress Pt. 3

- CrazedMan (talk) 13:50, 26 December 2014 (UTC)

http://imgur.com/hY6kaGj

- CrazedMan (talk) 18:26, 27 December 2014 (UTC)

Anita's Sources

- CrazedMan (talk) 18:35, 27 December 2014 (UTC)

Feminist Frequency

Their descriptions of the games they criticize are full of cherry-picking, crass misinterpretations and plain falsehoods. In a particularly crass case, FF's video about Bayonetta from Februry 2010 was so full of factually wrong statements that it was removed. In June 2012 it was uploaded after being re-edited, taking it from 4:10 to 2:58 in length. The page in FF's website about the video does mention the edit, but of course, whitewashes the reason for the re-edit. The original video, now unavailable: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcaKvZLNVek Mirror of the original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbihPTgAql4 The re-edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17_bd03vGP0 The whitewashing on FF's website: https://archive.today/ixYyu#selection-137.0-137.467

FF uses footage from other people's let's-play videos without asking or even notifying them. Here's a long list of instances. https://archive.today/UGUwq

Anita Sarkeesian

The many factual inaccuracies and the theft of LP content both point towards what has become a common criticism of FF videos. The only two possiblities are that either the FF staff hasn't actually played the game at all, or played it and are willingly lying about it. Anita Sarkeesian often spouts her narrative of being a lifelong gamer, but footage from a lecture she delivered at Santa Monica College 2010, she openly admits that she "isn't a fan of videogames" and "actually had to do research", and "I would love to play video games but I don’t want to go around shooting people and ripping off their heads and it’s just gross" is nothing if not a statement that she's barely involved with the subject she claims to be a cultural critic of. The issue isn't whether she's a "real gamer" or not, but that she's criticizing cultural products she hasn't even consumed. It's exactly like judging a book by its cover.

Her own tweets claiming to be a fan of games: https://archive.today/hFdgF

Unable to name 3 games relevant to her arguments about misogyny: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9L_Wmeg7OTU#t=1m57s

The Santa Monica College lecture: http://vimeo.com/13216819#t=12m20s

Clip of the relevant parts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Afgtd8ZsXzI

Short clip showing her disparate claims: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FW-69xXD734

Her masters thesis is a perfect embodiment of pseudo-science, passing ill-defined, lazily made "research" as cultural criticism.

https://mega.co.nz/#!UBxSEY6S!fsPHYmoZO2XigZTBDYxRGxZQbxUqxj_Jx4tTxw4bM-A

Her past as a pyramid scheme peddler and similar scams, which neatly mix her pseudo-science with her social manipulation. "Anita Sarkeesian, Teleseminar Success Story": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIpw3wHn9Sk

Peddling handwriting analysis hogwash for a "Handwriting University": https://archive.today/zVsYF

Handwriting University is not only a scam, but a scam owned by a PUA called Bart Baggett: https://archive.today/H3k72

Another source showing Sarkeesian as working for Baggett: https://archive.today/5URKY

Another source: https://archive.today/iSM8h

She didn't much mind sexualization or objectification of women when she was the one shooting their pictures.

https://archive.today/iy4FH

https://archive.today/W6oi7

https://archive.today/ZbIkv

https://archive.today/Osm9d

https://archive.today/2jHmA

https://archive.today/QxHaB

https://archive.today/ji0B2

Assorted nonsense: Complaining that "piracy culture" is male dominated: https://archive.today/B6Irc

"Toxic masculinity": https://twitter.com/femfreq/status/525793436025118721

Totally not about the money: http://imgur.com/GORfrlW

Source: https://twitter.com/search?q=computer from%3Afemfreq

Having power is necessary for sexism, said the scam artist with the full backing of the media to the masses of gaming nobodies: http://imgur.com/SCggcw2

Source: https://twitter.com/search?q=from%3Afemfreq since%3A2014-11-12 until%3A2014-11-16

Hypocrisy: http://imgur.com/aXuLoxo

Source 1: https://archive.today/qS0WL

Source 2: https://archive.today/6slbc

Much has been said about their intellectual dishonesty. Unfortunately, much of the criticism against FF comes from other similarly unreliable Youtube e-celebrities. The ones below are the best I know of.

@cainejw's Medium articles

https://archive.today/DOXZh

https://archive.today/6vJAM

https://archive.today/8A3Ca

https://archive.today/6AhqI

https://archive.today/8DPY0

Mytheos Holt's articles on gamesided

https://archive.today/bfVbk

https://archive.today/NHUNm

https://archive.today/dlfcI

https://archive.today/Jm1tR

https://archive.today/BLFkE

https://archive.today/7LF8H

https://archive.today/4MaUf

Foxigon analyzes FF's source, dunno if he ever made a part 2

https://archive.today/uko3a

Todd Bowes for The LFB

https://archive.today/esnTI

Cathy Young

https://archive.today/NOsrH

FemFreq advocates piracy in article

https://archive.today/MSRdF

https://www.dropbox.com/s/q4z6qa561roidh5/femfreq_annualreport2014.pdf?dl=0

- CrazedMan (talk) 10:16, 24 January 2015 (UTC)

An introduction to my perspective on the current state of the gaming community.

[https://archive.today/2rV4a Cultivation Theory and Gaze Theory. Are they good fits for video games?]

Josh

https://archive.today/n7v3b

Anita

https://archive.today/paa3S

The Shithead

https://archive.today/aTX8l

https://archive.today/52dZI

https://archive.today/Xjigx

https://archive.today/6miPG

https://archive.today/hvxCS

Its puppet

https://archive.today/sptw1

https://archive.today/ulA4M

https://archive.today/O0NvW

https://archive.today/qp36e

https://archive.today/CIzEh

- CrazedMan (talk) 04:55, 11 February 2015 (UTC)