I really don't get your position, you got some Hezbollah cousins and friends, got some Albanian or Iranian in the family? Or is this how far the left of today has fallen?
No.
Is it just that you think America is always bad and believe in these international Jewish conspiracy and think Israel is 'evil' or something?
No.
Ok let me guess who you are, Finnish or Finnic? Maybe I'm getting a little Karelian Romani or Sumoi in the way you write? You're the type of person who would vote for Suomen Kommunistinen Puolue or Kommunistinen Työväenpuolue Sosialismin? or vote for Suomen ruotsalainen kansanpuolue (RKP) or maybe support the Social Democratic Party of Finland?
am I getting warmer?
Wut? RKP is a center-right Swedish-Finnish ethnic party. Are you saying that being from another ethnic group is a problem?
Now I'm pretty sure you're just a concern troll. Probably a far right winger pretending to be leftist. This type of character assassination is pretty much strictly their approach.
I voted for the SDP in the last election. It's a party that's maybe slightly to the left of the US mainstream democrats.
The fact that in the previous arguments I gave a strong defense of the market economy and the civil society that it supports, should have been a pretty obvious indication that I'm not a communist. I noticed that you're not very good with details.
Maybe I'm getting a little Karelian Romani
This weird question of ethnicity. I'm getting distinct neonazi vibes from you.
I also love the specificity. I'm not just a Romani apparently, I'm a
KARELIAN ROMANI.
Stahp.
Are you sure you are not Muslim?
No. And the fact that you assume this confirms to me, that you are a concern troll. If its so hard to imagine that I'm defending minorities out of liberal humanism, I don't see how you can be a leftist.
How on earth can you assume that I'm a muslim when I've pretty obviously argued from the perspective of an outsider? Is that really lost on you?
Is this the way the left bases its arguments today? Maybe in the left we can find those people who are just an Islamist-Apologist and somebody who likes making excuses for radical Islam? You're not a person of Muslim Iranian heritage living in Germany? Or is this what the left movement has become? Is this what left means now, is it truly the dead end of the leftist movement?
I really don't get your position
Again, you're a far-right wing concern troll. Your obsession with ethnicity betrays your true nature. Perhaps you should try to hide it better next time. Even if I was an Iranian living in Germany, how would that make my arguments any different?
Something tells me Finnish and you might be tempted vote for a Cultural Marxist, a Michael Moore or Chomsky character, mayb e you would support a Finland communist group? You think the nation Finland should open its borders to more 'refugees' and 'migrants'...guess throwing out some wild guesses about you?
tell me if my guess is all wrong
Wooo. You're all knowing. You can read my history. Incredible research skills.
Also, the fact that you un-ironically use the antisemitic concept of cultural Marxism while accusing me of antisemitism is just hilarious.
The muslim friends you've talked to are telling you BS, they are not telling you the truth they are in fact preachers try to sell you more Islam
If you want to hear the truth talk to an Apostate or an Ex-Muslim.
Not an argument.
And my theories are not based on what Muslims say.
Religious Muslims wouldn't actually actually agree with me (about Islam being just a culture).
and you call her a 'slobbering moron'?
Yeah, because that's what she is, and she is not a feminist either.¨
So in order to point out the shadiness of her one now has to be willing to file a lawsuit?
Yes. Calling her a scam artist is definitely slander.
She got more money than she asked for; that is not fraud.
She wasn't engaged in affinity fraud; like she wasn't selling land in Chile she didn't own to her ideological compatriots.
She just asked for donations, and due to her being attacked by this mob of lunatic misogynists, she got vastly more than she asked for.
Still not fraud; not even shady one bit, unless you are extremely predisposed to attacking her.
Yes, there is context, there always is. The woman being brutally murdered can be framed as an act of joy and celebration of gore, or it could be framed in a way that makes the player aware of the violence that women have to face in similar situations in real life. (Both being perfectly valid on their own merit, female npcs have the same right of being brutally gorified as male npcs have - the beauty of equality.)
In the case of hitman the overall atmosphere is clearly one of empathy for the strippers. The dialog is actually written quite well and made me feel rather uncomfortable the first time I went through that stage (and that's only partly because of the bad voice acting). The fact that the player can "play around with them" is just the effect of an interactive medium, there is no story-benefit to toying around with them, there is no bonus-points for killing them (the opposite is true) and as far as you have to interact with them (which, for the most part is sneaking part them) you don't do anything to harm them. It would be stupid if the player could NOT play around with them because the game enforces some special rules (like when you attack a city in Skyrim and the fact that children are just immortal little gods that can't be harmed completely breaks your immersion).
Again: You're basically saying that games are not allowed to tackle mature themes because people aren't "forced" to be mature but can instead choose to have fun with the sandbox aspects of the game. While at the same time you guys are asking for games to grow up. How stupid is that?
Let me put in the simplest possible terms, so that you can understand.
Stories have no context similar to real life. That is, stories have no chain of prior events that dictate what must happen in the story later on. Stories are entirely written by the authors from the start to the end. Every character, every interaction, every piece of dialogue, every setting and every artistic choice is a deliberate decision by the authors. Nothing is ever introduced into a story spontaneously without the authors writing it in. Thus you can criticize the subtext of a scene without discussing the contrived context.
So when the developers chose to have the game events take place in a strip club; they chose that setting for a purpose. That purpose was to show half-naked women so that their game sells better to male audiences.
When the game developers chose to put half-naked women in as obstacles and challenges, to be either murdered or avoided, they wanted the player to be enter a situation where they deal with half-naked women.
When the game developers chose to put in the ridiculous BDSM nuns, they again hoped to cash in on sex.
The subtext is clear: the developers carefully shaped the story so as to enable them to sell the game with the allure of sex.
This is a common trope in many games: including Star Wars, where often even the smallest backwater planets have Twi'lek strip clubs, etc.
This is Sarkeesian's entirely uncontroversial point. She is just pointing out the trope and its incessant (ab)use. Whether this is a problem or not, is another subject.
