Anita Sarkeesian, Video Game Rape Culture, and Why Online Harassment Is Not a Joke (long screencap)

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70. I cannot see how that would fit

If I say, for example, that I hate Lebron James because he looks like an arrogant thug, how can that be racism? It doesn't apply to the jocks that I like, such as Dr. J, or Desmond Howard, or Michael Jordan, or Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, or Sugar-Ray Leonard, etc.

Or even if I was to say that I hate Lebron because he's a jock, and I hate jocks because they pound on wimpy little nerds like me and take all the attractive women, that still wouldn't be racism because there are black people who are not primarily jocks, like Bill Cosby (wait, he plays tennis) and Barack Obama (whoops, basketball) and Henry Louis Gates.

It might be bigotry towards jocks, or in this case, bigotry towards the beautiful people, but it does not translate into the larger bigotry.

As far as entitlement goes, I think that probably works both ways. According to my uncle, who has done far more dating than myself, "women do not like it when you break up with them", and I have seen unattractive women all googly over these studly guys at the factory where I worked.

For some reason, you do not understand the social dynamics, the pyramid of social relations, like this

1
1-1
1-2-1
1-3-3-1
1-4-6-4-1
1-5-10-10-5-1

With the "beautiful people" at the top, looking down their noses at the mass of the rest of us serfs as if we are subhumans not fit for any use other than as a doormat or a foil for jokes. Sometimes, some of the peasants get resentful.

I just have my doubts that their hateful comments are coming from happy, fulfilling lives.