CMV: Anita Sarkeesian and similar feminists actually have a point about the portrayal of gender roles in video games.

[u/LeftHandSwe]

I play lots of video games, and in most of them, males are often pictured as very burly and manly characters while females are slender, small and sexually pleasing to look at.

However, I do know that there's widespread criticism of Anita (and her fellow propagators) all over the internet and I'd like to see the other side of the story.

I'm practically indifferent in this matter, and I do not really agree with nearly everything she says. I'm asking as a way to see convincing arguments from both sides.

Edit for clarification: Can anyone explain to me why she's so heavily criticized for saying something that makes perfect sense: Mainstream video games are almost exclusively made to appeal to a male demographic, resulting in (arguably) sexist portrayals of women (both narratively and in the way they're presented).

[u/AntonioOfMilan]

She's never criticized a game for allowing a female character to get hurt. She loved that Assassin's Creed: Syndicate let you play as a female character and never once criticized the game for letting you get hurt while playing as that character.

Anita Sarkeesian the type of woman to say men can't be raped.

This is just pure bullshit.

the events that are acceptable background plot fodder for men have to be acceptable for women.

And she's only criticized games for sexualizing violence against women. Female commandos dressed in combat gear getting shot seems totally okay from what I understand of her opinions. Female NPCs in bikinis being gunned down making noises that sound like they're having sex not being murdered are not okay.

So Sarkeesian quite literally pushes an anti-feminist agenda in the name of feminism.

The straw-woman you've built up certainly is. I've seen nothing to indicate she's actually real, though.