Folks, the Anita Sarkeesian drama has been going on since 2012 due to the death threats the woman has been getting for her critical point of view on Video Games. From being forced from her home to having to cancel an appearance at a college, Sarkeesian has been showing up in the news trying to prove her point about video games, and having others prove it right for her(Just in a bad way).
But it seems the Anita Sarkeesian drama has hit its peak when she was recently interviewed by a known media site. No, I'm not talking about IGN, Gamespot or Kotaku.
I'm talking about Stephen Colbert.
That's right folks. The same Stephen Colbert who hosts the Colbert Report every Monday through Thursday night on Comedy Central(Soon to be vacated in January when he becomes the new Late Night host).
Now, due to a situation beyond my control, I cannot directly link the embedded videos here. What I can do is provide to you the link to the videos itself and let you be the judge, plus I have this information from Huffington Post.
The importance of GamerGate -- a cultural firestorm and ostensible
video games consumer revolt fixated on feminism, journalistic ethics and
right-wing politics -- is not necessarily easy for an outsider to
grasp. That's because from the outside it doesn't seem... to make a
whole lot of sense.
As such, it has proven to be a topic best treated in recent days by humour and parody.
US
late night host and satirical firebrand Stephen Colbert produced
perhaps the best 10 minute discussion of the issue so far last night,
when he invited feminist blogger (and focus of serious, equally
inexplicable abuse) Anita Sarkeesian to discuss it with him on The
Colbert Report.
What happened next was probably the best and most incisive piece on GamerGate to yet appear on mainstream TV.
And yes, the fact that's true is incredibly depressing.
Works Cited:
Huffington Post
You can look at the videos at
http://on.cc.com/1tScrPt Part 1
http://on.cc.com/1DB7SZJ Part 2(Stephen interviews Anita Sarkeesian)
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