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I'm really thriving and enjoying being a part of a really vibrant creative team and doing creative work.

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Anita Sarkeesian
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: August 15
Blogger
Communicator
Critic
Feminist
Journalist
Media Critic
Sociologist
Television Producer
Youtuber
City of Toronto
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I am not a fan of video games, I had to learn a lot about them. I would love to play video games, but I don't want to go around shooting people, and ripping off their heads, and it's just gross.
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The US bombed them back to traditional values – feminism does not exist in Japan. While I don’t like judging an entire culture…that does not excuse them.
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One of the most radical things you can do, is to actually believe women when they tell you about their experiences.
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I wouldn't call it a silver lining, but with more women speaking up, online harassment is beginning to be taken more seriously.
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I wanted to make feminism more accessible. And I really wanted to engage with my own generation, one that is increasingly speaking in an audio/video multimedia language.
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Well maybe the princess shouldnt be a damsel and she can save herself.
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Some male gamers with a deep sense of entitlement are terrified of change.
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Maybe today we aren't being told that our brains are not capable of such things [like programming], but we [as a women] are being told that we are not good enough or smart enough or that our successes do not belong to us.
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Ordinary Women was shot on a soundstage with a professional crew and a professional animation studio creating everything.
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There’s no such thing as sexism against men. That's because sexism is prejudice + power. Men are the dominant gender with power in society.
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My writer and I sat down and wrote a huge list of names of women to consider. It was really important to us to have a broad range of women from across generations and cultures. We didn't want to make it Western-focused, we wanted to make sure it was international and that it had an intersectional lens.
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It's been really exciting to work on a collaborative, creative team where we got to bounce ideas back and forth and figure out the best one.
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The struggles women face today are simultaneously very, very old and very new.
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I find crowdfunding to be one of the most ethical ways to continue doing the work that we do because the idea is that I want my videos to be free and available to everybody, and that's why I use YouTube and online platforms.
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I want these to be names that young girls and boys and kids of all genders grow up knowing. It shouldn't just be when you take a feminist class in college, if you happen to do that. I hope this is fun and engaging for folks to watch.
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I hadn't mentioned, but Ching Shih is a pretty villainous character. She is a real person, but she was a pirate commander, so she probably murdered a lot of people.
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I'm no stranger to a bit of sexist backlash, but I was surprised by the level of vicious and misogynist hate I received.
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I really wanted to explore a range of women who aren't necessarily perfect, heroic women. I wanted to series to influence creative people to include more women in their work, especially historic works.
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I really want to help write women back into history.
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The struggles of dealing with online harassment is the same harassment that women have been dealing with, it's just a new medium in which it's happening.
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