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Gamergate morons launch petition to get Sarkeesian kicked off project she is not even involved in
The misguided petition to remove Anita Sarkeesian from Mirror’s Edge
Geoffrey Tim
December 10, 2014 at 12:00 pm
There’s a great big petition on the internet right now – along with a couple of frankly godawful videos – calling for Anita Sarkeesian to be wrested from the development team for the Mirror’s Edge sequel. As of right now, there are nearly 40 000 signatures on the thing. That’s 40 000 people who’ve angrily signed a petition, without doing the most rudimentary fact checking.
Here’s what the petition calls for:
Geoffrey Tim
December 10, 2014 at 12:00 pm
There’s a great big petition on the internet right now – along with a couple of frankly godawful videos – calling for Anita Sarkeesian to be wrested from the development team for the Mirror’s Edge sequel. As of right now, there are nearly 40 000 signatures on the thing. That’s 40 000 people who’ve angrily signed a petition, without doing the most rudimentary fact checking.
Here’s what the petition calls for:
We the undersigned are presenting our names in solidarity against the decision of EA Games and DICE to include Anita Sarkeesian in any aspect of the game development of Mirror’s Edge 2. Our reasoning follows as thus:
Snip (If you want to read the full stupidity go to the link).
That is a heck of a lot of anger, directed at something that’s just untrue. Here’s the rub: Anita Sarkeesian hasn’t been hired by EA to develop Mirror’s Edge. The whole thing stems from a user blog on Destructoid, that’s based entirely around hearsay. From two and a half years ago. Before the Mirror’s Edge reboot was even announced.
http://www.lazygamer.net/general-news/the-misguided-petition-to-remove-anita-sarkeesian-from-mirrors-edge/
Warning: the following video from one of the leaders of the drive to get Anita Sarkeesian kicked off the Mirror's Edge project she is not even involved in contains extremely stupid misogynistic bullshit. I would normally not post this kind of crap here, but the unintentional humor value makes it necessary to share. You probably won't last more than a minute or two before you have to shut this idiot up, but I hope you can laugh at his stupidity as much as I did during those two minutes.
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