I'm feeling also that we shouldn't talk about the person making these videos - we should talk about the topics that are actually addressed in the series.
I've never understood how the 'money making scheme' came to be in the first place - all there is is a kickstarter to finance the series, which is delivered, and it turned out that the desire for a documentary about sexism in video games is more popular than expected.
And now a bunch of angry men think it's propaganda because it derides their favourite games, proving that none of the youtubers who hate her watched the videos (or even the first minute of the original).
Essentially, its because of Cultural Marxism. If you interpret something enough, you can make anything look and sound like anything else. You could give me a blank blue canvas and I could, quite easily, explain to you at length why it was sexist and patriarchal by stringing together a number of unrelated things and it could sound really convincing.
The motivation of the messager, while it should not be an issue in debate, is important when speaking on something like this. When you have Anita who is herself (by her own admission) someone who does not like video games and is not a gamer, speaking as if she is an expert to spread propaganda and conflict its (to use her language) problematic.
Anita is trying to use shame and guilt, about basic human issues, to turn a profit. She could (like many people) have put her series on YouTube and let her content earn her money from the ad revenue, but rather than doing that she called out for other people to support her... then largely failed to deliver.
This is because, at the end of the day, most folks are not sexist and it is not really society's fault. Sexism is essentially extinct in the modern era and when I see people say things like prejudice is paramount to violence" it makes me think that these people have had VERY easy and sheltered lives. And those are not the kind of people I want running society or being moral busy bodies, especially in my hobbies which are supposed to be magical and fun.
Being told that society is sexist when "modern western society" was not only one of the first societies to give women equal rights... and certainly the most prolific... but that we should be ashamed and then pay the people who shame us, that stinks.
At the end of the day its just not a very happy way to live. Its kind of like going around and picking fights with people and then being upset that no one wants to be your friend and saying that people are against you because of it. It breeds a victim complex and leads the person doing it to feel persecuted and then somehow more justified in tearing down others.
However, at the end of the day we all want to get along.
Men like "more vulnerable" women and "emotionally available women" because we like to fill a need. We are goal orientated and purpose driven. These are common aspects of being a man and masculinity. Its nothing to do with society. We are wired to want to protect women and protect the weak, a strong independent woman has less need of us, and so many men will be intimidated by her. And this is not me projecting or anything, this is seen in apes also. Its because children are vulnerable and men are also wired to want to protect and shelter children. These are, typically, our basic instincts.
"And now a bunch of angry men think it's propaganda "
Propaganda is bad. She is peddling in it. I've seen her whole video series and I'm not "angry" but I am "offended" that people would rather believe "All men are sexist" (which means we are essentially hateful and abusive to women by our very nature) than the fact that a few radical people are squinting at the Mona Lisa and seeing a UFO (look it up, I'm not making that up).
At the end of the day, sexism and prejudice exists... but the assertion that we need to either renounce our masculinity or live in shame and deny our basic manhood... or be guilty of sexism and hate... that is just ridiculous. The assertion that Mario is sexist because he saves Peach... its just silly. Its taking something innocent and harmless and turning it into something to fight over for no good reason.
Now if a Mario game started with Mario having to rescue Peach because "that dither brain woman can't do nothin' right" and then he chained her to the stove at the end of the game then maybe she'd have a point and I'd think there was something to it. But I feel like A LOT people have had it so good for so long that they don't actually know what sexism, racism or prejudice REALLY looks like.
And (if experience tells me anything) this is where the mudslinging starts. lol