...Yeah, I'm just going to cover a few basic things here.

Firstly, just a general response to what you say on her article.

The point of the article wasn't to actively promote other Body Types in gaming. The point was to speak out against people who are constantly bashing games because of characters with big boobs. At no point does she say that other types are not welcome, she is simply countering people who keep saying that the big boobs are not welcome. (Yeah, in this very thread we have someone saying they are going to write a letter to square showing their disapproval of Cid's attire, and no one is saying this is a bad thing. So yeah, there are people saying the boobs aren't welcome, and none of you are exactly saying you disagree with that.)


Anita begins a blog called Tropes vs. Women in Video Games, which examined tropes that she believes reinforce damaging stereotypes about women. Essentially, this is a movement to break away from the female character stereotypes that we all know too well.

She is attacked because of this.
No. Firstly, I'm going to ignore Troll's for purpose of this repsonse. (Yeah, the trolls are smurfing troutty, but everyone with any semblance of clout on the internet gets those in droves.) People dislike Anita because of how nonsensical her statements are. You need only look at her dissection of hit man to realize this. The game penalizes you for killing innocents (You know, like all those strippers you see being killed in the video she that she claims the game in question encourages you to kill) to see how, at best, disingenuous she is being in her critique.

She is attacked because men want those female characters to remain the same; they want their games to remain untouched.
I hope you have some way to back this claim up.

She becomes a victim of death and rape threats, her webpages and social media are hacked, her article on Wikipedia is vandalized, among a slew of slander and additional threats of all sorts online in comments and Twitter and the like. One attacker created a computer game that allowed players to beat and bloody an image of her
Oh, you mean like what happened to Christina Hoff Sommers after she said a lot of these people criticizing Video games in the manner they were rather off base? (Protip: it wasn't people who support GG that went after her.) Or when she speaks out against blatantly false statistics? (Yeah, take a wild guess over where are the vitriol towards her comes from) Or how about Jack Thompson, who received pretty much the exact same treatment as Anita did, in his case the beat up image game as well? Guess that last one kind of destroys this being a thing only women have to deal with. (Yes, death and vivid threats of anal rape were all sent to Jack Thompson.)

She was forced to vacate her home due to the threats she received, and just recently had to abandon a conference at the University of Utah due to threats of gun violence.
I'll give you the former, cause that's just plain troutty. Note though, it takes ONE person to do this. But the latter is quite frankly silly. Unless you believe the official reports were full of trout, both state and federal investigations showed the threats to have no credibility what so ever. Regardless, Campus Security was still set to be increased during the event. There is a discrepancy between them saying they were in contact with Anita the whole time, and Anita saying she learned only once she arrived, but point in case this looked as if it were little more then some jack ass high schooler calling in a fake bomb threat to get school canceled for a day. Threats like this happen all the time. Hell, they've happened to Marilyn Manson multiple times from people trying to get his shows canceled cause they felt he was to edgy.

All of these behaviors are examples of peoples' real life behaviors. They are behaviors caused by video games.
You have exactly as much backing you up as Jack Thompson's claims do.


And no, pointing out that 'gamers did the same thing to Jack Thomspon' doesn't prove you're right, just as me pointing out all the absolutely terrible things some ass holes have done in the name of Feminism wouldn't be proof that Feminism caused all of this rotten behavior. Absolutely every horrible, troutty thing that has happened can be ascribed to a small handful of individuals easily.