It is offensive, though not necessarily offensive against men, as you choose to interpret it, but offensive against people's intelligence, abusing a complex topic for pushing an agenda, regardless of whether it's meant well or not and whether some ideas behind it are worth considering or not. It's such a matter-of-fact statement that it's disgustingly populist and no better than politicians looking for the next scapegoat and making stupid comments to appear competent on issues that don't have solutions anywhere near as easy they'd like to suggest. In fact it's discrediting the very cause she claims to care about.

Did you forget about Jim Jones? Some people use psychology as their weapon of choice --not a mass shooter, but a mass suicide.... and to this day, I don't believe every one of their colony was a willing participant.

How I really feel about what? I feel like I'm a flawed, somewhat biased human being, just like anyone else. I also feel like with such a media like videogames which are usually costly to make, we have become quite used to just seeing one side of the picture on a lot of problems. I am able to enjoy videogames, but I'm also a person with a political conscience. CoD may be a good series, may have good mechanics, but when I see Activision use people like Oliver North as PR to give a monologue on how America is threatened by the whole world, it makes me concerned that that particular cultural product is being sold to children and that we just accept gladly that a Hollywood kind of entertainment making is automatically harmless, exportable... I mean in one of the later instalments the plot goes like "a lot of South American nations form a coalition against the USA". And it's not just american children that are being told this hatemongering propaganda which guards no relation to reality, against these countries. The Hollywood model is exportable, this is being told to everyone. In the rare cases when you have a (japanese made) MGS: Peacewalker, everyone feels uncomfortable and asks: "Why does Kojima hate America?"

But I digressed for the entire paragraph: I don't politically agree with all videogames, they are just cultural expressions like any other. Some I just disagree, some I despise. The first group I'm able to enjoy, I'll cherry pick the parts I like about its message or make my own reading of it.

The problem is her cause is not violence in video games. Her cause is not gun rights. Her cause is exposing misogyny in video games. Why is she commenting on school shootings pretending to be an expert? She's sees misogyny in games where there really isn't, now she's seeing misogyny in school shootings...

Sometimes that's what you need to do for your own enjoyment. I tend to think that games are meant to be enjoyed, and they shouldn't be used as a vehicle for advertising or pushing ones' agenda. But if you roll back several years, even Sierra's "King's Quest" was used to push IBM's PCJr.

I have faith in some of these game designers who have some access to artistic talent, whether it be the voice acting, the scene painting, the logical puzzles behind the scenes --they're all a symphony of artists who are able to create something spectacular by pooling those talents.

Anitas thinking is insane, period. Masculinity (our nature btw.) leads to muh soggy knees and that leads to violence or violence leads to blah blah... and because of that she has to destroy masculinity in games. Wow, thats a logic!
I mean, insane may be a bit off but surely it sounds like a thought of a madman to me. To question masculinity... is like you tell the world that our civilisation is an EPIC fail. The man of the earth build it and all the nice things these people use are being made my man. And yet they "hate" it... ?

Twitter = made my man
computers = made by man
television = made by man
money = made my man
buildings = made by man

we can add all the things we have achieved to the list and in the end these people tell you how bad man are! So i think that people like Anita need help and not a computer!
Totaly Off topic but so is Anita imo whenever someone brings her up. She is a political tool thats all!

If you cannot show compassion, how can you lead by example?

i have a black heart. Don't expect compassion from me. I'm going to play this game, after all. :P

Now that's what I call "in it to win it".

Offended people are always wrong.

So... everyone is wrong?

Maybe she can have more than one cause, like we all do. And a lot of people want to know what she or other internet personalities think about just about any subject, even if it doesn't relate to their main discourse. Why does the Amazing Atheist talk about ebola? With the exception of when Sarkeesian seemed to imply that there was a difference between killing a prostitute to get your money back in GTA than killing any other pedestrian for whatever amount big or small of money they had, which I found completely dishonest, I think she sometimes has good points. There is misogyny in games and in a lot of geek culture, and I care. Because I feel like writers are treating me like I'm stupid when they portray women in certain ways. I meet lots of fantastic people, men and women, and also horrible people, men and women again. I just want games to keep maturing, not be held back (specially not by game makers!) and give an honest critical look at a lot of issues. Gender or race shouldn't automatically earn a character the role of hero or villain and whatever the case they should never earn their whole collective the role of hero or villain.
That's always a possibility. What isn't a possibility is everybody being right. Am I wrong? XD

And that justifies blaming the latest school shooting on "toxic masculinity" and "patriarchy"?

I'm offended? :(