The Sarkeesian Effect: Inside the World of Social Justice Warriors Quotes

Himself - Narrator: By the time Anita Sarkeesian ascended on to the GDC awards stage there were two conflicting stories on how she had gotten there. The one put forth by Mr. Druckmann was the one put forth by the media at large. The story of a heroic young woman who overcame impossible odds to gain ground for women and minorities everywhere. It was a compelling narrative, one that fit well with the civil rights stories of the past. PBS even saw fit to compare Anita Sarkeesian to Rosa Parks, Harvey Milk and Martin Luther King Jr. But this appealing narrative doesn't tell the whole story. As Anita grinned ear to ear with trophy in hand thousands of gamers were watching something else entirely, the video game industry bowing down to a bully like none it had ever encountered before, a bully that used guilt and political correctness to have her way. The two narratives about Anita Sarkeesian, one heroic, one heinous had come to define the two sides in a bitter culture war in modern gaming that would soon explode in the controversial consumer revolt known as GamerGate. While the world at large looked on with confusion gaming culture stood divided over what can be called The Sarkeesian Effect.

Movie: The Sarkeesian Effect: Inside the World of Social Justice Warriors
Cathy Young: They will find some jerk on the internet saying something really really asinine, or someone deliberately trolling, someone saying sexist things to upset feminists. It's this really toxic vicious cycle because I think people know by now that feminists get very upset by things people say on the internet. So, you know, if you want to get a rise out of someone one of the easiest ways to do that is to get on the internet and just make a rape joke or say something misogynist or whatever. And then you get the reaction and it just spins out of control. And one of the things that I found amazing is that these comments. You find one idiotic comment that someone makes on Facebook and then it gets screen-capped and it gets posted with a comment like Tell me we don't live in a deeply misogynistic society when somebody said this about raping unconscious women or something. Well okay, first of all it is one person who said this. Any normal person would find this to be an outrageous comment and secondly I'm not even sure if the person who posted that actually believes that. More likely than not they posted it because they know that idiots like you are gonna screen-cap it, send it around the internet and wave their hands about it.

Movie: The Sarkeesian Effect: Inside the World of Social Justice Warriors