![]() ![]() Like, more than $90,000 beyond what she originally wanted to raise. Unfortunately for the misogynists, this sort of thing generated a lot of sympathy for Sarkeesian, and she was able to fundraise well beyond her original goals. Her Wikipedia page was repeatedly vandalized with lies, links out to porn sites, and pornographic pictures.* Eventually, Wikipedia shut it down. Every access point they could exploit was used to try to get to her, especially her YouTube page. She hadn’t expressed an opinion about video games yet, but simply by stating that she would at some point in the future do so, she had to endure an absolute avalanche of misogynist abuse from men who hoped they could silence her before her too-scary-to-be-heard opinion could be voiced. She started a Kickstarter page to raise money to make a documentary about the tropes used by video game designers to portray female characters. Sarkeesian’s story is a doozy, by the way. You might remember that when Sarkeesian started this Kickstarter project, there was a huge surge of harassment directed at her for even starting the research, before she had even expressed her ideas on the subject Brain Food Stuff that sparks ideas or imagination for me. ![]() “Big Things” Daytrip to Louisville, Kentucky.Fortune Cookies I’m the luckiest girl in the world, and I have the fortune cookies to prove it. ![]()
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