Actually, Manco, I've been a fan of hers for about a year now, so no, it wasn't the GamerGate video.
Also I probably respect other feminists, but she's a woman whom I know to be a feminist. I like other women too, some of them probably call themselves feminists.
I don't avoid somebody automatically just because they refer to themselves as a feminist.
If you have any sources for the claim that she "misrepresents scholarly information" I'd love to see them.
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We absolutely don't see Feminism the same way. I see young people from 14-21 as almost universally idealistic but ignorant, you think that Feminism=Boisterous internet femmes who make money complaining about video games.
"I don't think an ideology that says "bhurkas are empowering" but "bikinis are triggering the male gaze""
The only way to stop looking at them this way is to get off the internet. I don't see these people in college and I doubt you will either. They are caricatures of feminism the same way TAA is a caricature of atheism. No one in this course has stood up and shamed men, no one has pulled any white guilt tripe. It's not real. It's a lie that angry young men tell each other on the internet because they're not allowed in the girls only club.
TAA is someone whom I have never liked but try to comprehend for your sake. I think I don't like him because I genuinely believe I'm smarter than he is, and if I chose to I could say what he says without putting it at the expense of other people. He characterizes laziness and pseudo intellectualism to the point where he's basically a walking parody of himself, and I find his self-aggrandizing persona extremely grating given he's clearly enough of a dipshit to get who Reza Aslan is wrong and let a picture of himself with a banana up his ass circulate online. Go ahead and like him, obviously you're not the only one, but his perspective is a perpetual 'idiot's guide to...' and never reflects any deep research or comprehension.
AntiFeminism is a waste of time and calling yourself one will only attract seriously fucked up women who won't do you any favours in the long term.
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It's just a label. Not identifying under it won't change anything about me.
Your thing that "this stuff only exists on the internet" is just not true, by the way. It's on TV frequently and is in newspapers more times than I care to count, so no, I don't go looking for it on the internet, i just see it. Everywhere.
Deep research or comprehension? No, not most of the time, but that's not why I watch him, I watch him because he's entertaining.
If I'm in the mood for something high-brow I'll watch Gad Saad or Sargon of Akkad. If I want something heavily research and statistic-based I'll watch TL;DR. I never said TAA was a genius, I said he's smarter than the average person and can be quite poetic at times.
I do find it weird that you're dwelling on the sex scandal thing, though. Everybody does stupid shit sometimes, all he did was send a private video to a couple of women whom I assume he thought he could trust. It's pretty clear he wasn't that arsed about it, though. I mean, TJ's Drunken Peasants T-shirt mascot is a banana.
This post is probably rambly as fuck because it's 2am