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Anita Sarkeesian makes videos on youtube, discussing tropes and themes in popular culture. She frames it with a feminist perspective, discussing how these tropes may affect our perception of women. 96 The Straw Feminist (Tropes vs. Women) These videos are footage of her monologuing into a camera, spliced with clips of broadcast footage and still images. She's done this for nearly two years, financing the videos with her youtube partner payments and a donation button on her own website. Recently she decided this wasn't enough, and made a kickstarter request for S6000 to continue her amateur production. When these videos are complete, she will make a considerable amount of money from them through ad revenue. Donators will not see a red cent. Help Support FEMFREQ! Do you enjoy my videos? Please make a financial contribution to keep them advertisement free! donate now (pictured: Anita before her much needed $6000) This was met by a violent internet backlash. The internet is a terrible, cathartic place. It's a combination of non-regulation and anonymity, culminating in aimless, hateful, racist, sexist (but ultimately impotent) aggression. A bigger person could have ignored these comments. A bigger person would conclude that some s------- 12 year old in Texas was probably not going to track her down and violate her corpse. Anita did not do this. Thankfll Ata hos decicded to face down the trolls and continue Jeef (Tropes vs Women episode 9: Unattractive equals Evil) She took the aggressive, deciding to emphasize the arduous task of dealing with their harassment, and her role as the victim. She rededicated the project homepage, taking the focus away from her youtube videos, away from her gross over-funding and put it square on how these these ugly MEN were so deeply affecting women everywhere. There was never a point in this matter where she did not possess all the power. As the project lead, she could have deleted the troll comments at any time (like she did with most of her earlier youtube videos), but she deliberately chose not to. She hyperlinked to them in fact, and gave tearful interviews on the subject. I'm totally overwhelmed with everything that's happening at the moment but I just want to reiterate that all your words of support, messages, comments, tweets and pledges have meant the world to me during this past week. Unfortunately, the harassment continues" Predictably, the internet media picked it up, and thousands of donators (90% of them men) poured into the project to defend her from these awful trolls. They had been gender shamed by the actions of others, and seeked to remand this by...paying her money that she admittedly did not need. Giving this woman 150 thousand dollars is not going make people stop being terrible on the internet. Making youtube videos about video game tropes is not going to make internet trolls go away. Anita knows this, but you have to wonder about some of her donators. Márten Jonsson 1 day ago I wasnt going to back this at first (mostly because m cheap, and it had already reached its goal), but then I read some of the Youtube comments and felt compelled to back it. Mostly as a f--- you to the people hating against this project. (spiteful charity is the best charity) Anita isn't going to use 150 thousand dollars to make youtube videos. I know this, you know this, and Kickstarter knows this. It's a gross misuse of what the website originally set out to do. Let's look at the rules it breaks. 3. Prohibited uses: No charity or cause funding. Examples of prohibited use include raising money for the Red Cross, funding an awareness campaion, tunding a scholarship, or promoting the donation of funds raised, or future profts, to a charity or cause Don't post copyrighted content without permission. Only post content that you have the rights to. PLEDGE $50 OR MORE 522 BACKERS A pack of custom designed stickers featuring a reimagined Zelda and Peach THANKS BUT IGOT BL FROM NE HERE Not that Kickstarter will do anything about it. They andAmazon are making a cool $15,000 off this.) In the end you can't call this a movement, you can't call this a cause, you can't even call it funding (past her stretch goal of S25,000). Call it what it is, charity And frankly, I can think of people who need it more. Why not start with your local Women's Shelter?

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$150000 are charity, not a fund-raising


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