She eventually mentions Mirror's Edge 2 and the female presenter for Bungie a few hours later.
That said, I don't like her. She's schizophrenic when it comes to her mission statement and what she actually says and does. Yes, she is inflammatory. Maybe not on purpose; her delivery and arguments are lazy and clumsy. But you can't deny she gets a happy when she pokes the hornets' nest and posts her "win."
There's a video where she "reviewed" or "critiqued" [http://www.feministfrequency.com/2011/01/kanye-wests-monster-misogyny/] Kanye West's video for his song, "Monster."
She claims this video is an expression of the Drop Dead Gorgeous trope [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DropDeadGorgeous]. The song is actually a condemnation of how rap and hip-hop culture treats women. The dead white women versus monstrous black women is a comment on how society polarizes the gender of either race, and how rap/hip-hop furthers that. Many times throughout the song, West sings, "I am a monster." He is not bragging; he is expressing that he is not okay with this. He is fully aware that he is part of the problem.
Of course, she could be forgiven for not getting that. It's plausible that she knows precisely nothing about rap/hip-hop culture. But that begs the question of why she would even be talking about this in the first place (and also how can someone who talks about pop culture not
know a thing a two about rap). But early in her video, when says how this trope has been popping up a lot lately, she flashes the title graphic for Amanda Palmer's album, Who Killed Amanda Palmer?
For those of you who don't know Amanda Palmer, she's the former lead singer of the Dresden Dolls and current wife of Neil Gaiman.
She's also a feminist and this album is a cornucopia of feminist ideologies.
Sarkeesian tells her audience not to watch the video. To just take her word for it that it's as horrible as she says. I can understand her not wanting to show clips from the video for its explicit nature, but telling others to not watch it smacks of trying to rig the game. She presents a surface level of commentary, not bothering to dig, and then tells others that, "This is misogyny. This is wrong. Just believe me."
This is how she's inflammatory and this is exactly why her arguments in her video game videos are so terribly wrong. Tropes are surface cannon fodder; we can all (hopefully) identify them and (again, hopefully) explain exactly why they are wrong in any context. As we've learned very recently, the problem aren't the tropes. It's the industry and part of the culture. And rather than take the giant leap and analyze the culture itself or the industry, she tackles mundane story telling devices that have been used for centuries. Because it's easy, quick, and everyone regardless of exposure to video games can understand them, she can exploit them and present them as the Big Bad. Do tropes reinforce certain views? Yes. But they also shine a light on where the real problem is.
Regardless of what she says or how she approaches female representation in any medium, she's going to get inundated with trolls and assholes. Close your eyes and run, you'll eventually hit something. However, trolls and assholes do not mean she is right. Admitting you're an atheist or a Catholic in most forums will get you the same treatment.
She's also not a feminist. I'm sorry, but to suggest that segregation as a means to fix any problem immediately negates anything else you have to say.
I apologize for this tome of a post, but I've been needing to get this off my chest for a while now.
