Sargon of Akkad - Carl Benjamin - Harvard's Humanist of the Year 2014
Aired: 2015-03-03
Duration: 08:05


=== Fuck Anita Sarkeesian (07:50) ===

[00:00:00]  Hey gaming buttholes!
[00:00:02]  Oh don't tell me you're one of the people who wants gaming to grow up aren't you?
[00:00:06]  Ready to eat some humble pie?
[00:00:08]  Have you been in the kitchen cooking some?
[00:00:10]  Anita Sarkeesian is being awarded Harvard's Humanist of the Year for 2014.
[00:00:17]  So?
[00:00:18]  Let that soak in for a hot minute.
[00:00:20]  I'd just like to remind any Americans listening that you don't have to apologise for her in the same way that Australians apologized for Angry Aussie.
[00:00:27]  My girl Anita has been working overtime this year.
[00:00:30]  Jesus, you've got low standards.
[00:00:32]  In 2014, Anita Sarkeesian made two videos.
[00:00:38]  Three if we accept her accepting the Ambassadors Award at the game developers conference last year.
[00:00:45]  And we can increase that to four if we include a video that she wasn't even in.
[00:00:50]  And she's only just reached the halfway mark after two years of her project being funded.
[00:00:56]  But hey, you know, they're your standards.
[00:00:59]  You can hold them as low as you like.
[00:01:01]  She was traveling around, giving some speeches.
[00:01:04]  Also cancelling speeches even though she hadn't had any credible threats.
[00:01:08]  Oh wait a minute, I gotta go check on that.
[00:01:10]  Honestly, you've probably burnt it by now.
[00:01:13]  Mmm, smell that pie.
[00:01:15]  Take a big whiff.
[00:01:16]  It's extra humbly for you.
[00:01:18]  I am really, really not interested in smelling your pie.
[00:01:23]  But I think the issue here is that you think Harvard's Humanist of the Year award has credibility.
[00:01:28]  And that credibility is transferred to Anita Sarkeesian when she is awarded it.
[00:01:32]  The issue is of course the exact reverse.
[00:01:34]  When Anita Sarkeesian is given an award, it discredits the people giving her an award.
[00:01:40]  Other Humanists of the Year were the founders of OKCupid in 2012 for being a website that was groundbreaking and allowing atheists to find other atheists and fall in love.
[00:01:51]  Thank you for confirming exactly the low standards that Harvard has.
[00:01:54]  I'm not impressed when a person who makes a dating website receives Humanist of the Year.
[00:02:01]  I'm really not.
[00:02:03]  And 2011 was Seth McFarlane because duh, he's a big funny atheist.
[00:02:08]  You keep saying atheist like you think the people you're talking to are religious.
[00:02:13]  I'm willing to bet that most of them aren't.
[00:02:16]  The Humanist Chaplaincy at Harvard have made it known that they are a redundant organization that will give out awards for absolutely asinine reasons.
[00:02:24]  Choosing Sarkeesian because she continues to fight for gender equality in the world.
[00:02:30]  Asinine reasons confirmed, thank you.
[00:02:32]  But particularly in gaming.
[00:02:35]  Technically exclusively in gaming, but even then all she's really done is played the professional victim and raked in the cash.
[00:02:43]  I can't imagine that's anything to do with useful idiots like you.
[00:02:47]  Even though she regularly receives donations?
[00:02:50]  Death threats.
[00:02:51]  Oh yeah, of course.
[00:02:52]  The donations come after the death threats.
[00:02:55]  She receives death threats from people too immature.
[00:02:58]  Hang on, do you know who the people sending anonymous death threats to Anita Sarkeesian are?
[00:03:03]  Because I'd like them arrested.
[00:03:04]  To understand that discussing and critiquing video games isn't a crime punishable by death.
[00:03:10]  Do you think that the people sending Anita Sarkeesian threats are part of the judiciary system?
[00:03:15]  Her main goal is not to ban all video games.
[00:03:19]  That's actually true.
[00:03:20]  She wants to change all video games.
[00:03:23]  It is to help creators come up with edgier ways to satisfy their clients without further perpetuating the treatment of women as second class citizens, which can be seen throughout history.
[00:03:35]  Okay, first, nothing Anita Sarkeesian will ever do will be edgy.
[00:03:40]  Second, shut up you don't know shit about history.
[00:03:44]  And third, Anita Sarkeesian basically wants to mum up the video game industry.
[00:03:49]  So Anita's demands of the gaming industry are as follows.
[00:03:53]  Number one, avoid the Smurfett principle.
[00:03:56]  Don't just have one female character in an ensemble cast.
[00:03:59]  Let's own one whose whole personality is more or less girl or woman.
[00:04:03]  Wow, that's edgy.
[00:04:05]  But the answer is, of course, fuck off Anita.
[00:04:07]  Number two, lingerie is not armor.
[00:04:10]  Dress female characters as something other than sex or dress.
[00:04:13]  Well, that is, again, edgy as fuck.
[00:04:16]  But the answer is, of course, fuck off Anita.
[00:04:19]  Number three, have female characters of various body types.
[00:04:23]  That's, again, brilliant.
[00:04:24]  I can't wait to play a fat Tumblrite, but the answer, I'm sure you're aware, is fuck off, Anita.
[00:04:31]  Number four is supremely edgy.
[00:04:33]  Don't overemphasize female characters' rear ends.
[00:04:38]  That is certainly not the sort of thing my mum would ask for.
[00:04:42]  But the answer is I'm sure you've guessed it, fuck off Anita, you annoying Puritan.
[00:04:47]  Number five is, include more female characters of colour.
[00:04:51]  Of course, the answer to this is, fuck off.
[00:04:53]  I'll do as I please with my own game.
[00:04:55]  Thank you, Anita.
[00:04:56]  Number six is surprisingly targeted directly at Brianna Wu, animate female characters to move the way normal women, soldiers or athletes would move.
[00:05:05]  Uh, my response Brianna, if I, if you're listening would be, fuck off, Anita.
[00:05:09]  Number seven is, record female character voiceover so that pain sounds painful and not orgasmic.
[00:05:15]  Uh, that's a really weird and nitpicky thing to to require.
[00:05:20]  Uh Anita, and I think you know what my answer is got it in one, fuck off Anita.
[00:05:27]  And Anita's final demand is, include more female enemies, but don't sexualize those enemies.
[00:05:32]  Oh okay mum, but hang on, i'm not going to be tricked here.
[00:05:37]  I know that if I include female enemies, you will complain about violence against women.
[00:05:41]  So my answer is, of course, what the fuck are you still doing here, Anita?
[00:05:45]  Why don't you go and play Candy Crush or whatever it is you actually enjoy?
[00:05:50]  Now there are a lot of conspiracy theories concerning Sarkeesian that are being circulated around the atheist community, probably something to do with her being an advisor to Silverstring media.
[00:06:01]  They do have their grubby little tentacles in a lot of pies.
[00:06:05]  Regarding her credibility, Anita has no credibility, ethics and intent.
[00:06:11]  She's a con artist.
[00:06:12]  She has taken people's money.
[00:06:14]  She has not finished her video series and there is literally no way in hell she's ever going to, given that she has announced a new video series.
[00:06:23]  Given that Anita has never addressed any of the criticism leveled against her, I can only presume that her intent is to take people's money.
[00:06:32]  And you know what?
[00:06:33]  If you want to give her your money, you go ahead.
[00:06:35]  More fool you and I have to say uh, who cares?
[00:06:44]  I'm not even mad.
[00:06:46]  I'm not even mad.
[00:06:49]  Your response is, oh, who cares?
[00:06:52]  That is just.
[00:06:53]  That is perfect, thank you.
[00:06:55]  That sums up absolutely everything about Anita Sarkeesian and her brain-dead.
[00:07:01]  Mindless followers like you.
[00:07:03]  And you wonder why.
[00:07:04]  My response to Anita's demands is, fuck off Anita.
[00:07:09]  If you cannot conduct yourself soundly and ethically and be intellectually responsible for the bullshit you put out, why should I care what you have to say?
[00:07:19]  When have skeptics in this community supported conspiracy?
[00:07:22]  Presumably when there is evidence to support such a position.
[00:07:26]  Skepticism is about truth and evidence to back that up.
[00:07:30]  Yeah, and sometimes people conspire.
[00:07:34]  Are you the sort of idiots who thinks that conspiracies just can't happen?

=== Discuss Harvard Mistake (00:29) ===

[00:07:38]  If you are excited for this wonderful new achievement of an atheist woman, please show your support and thumbs ups.
[00:07:45]  Yeah, and don't forget to listen and believe like a good skeptic.
[00:07:50]  If you think this is a huge mistake being made on the part of Harvard, one of the most well-renowned Ivy League schools, let's discuss it below.
[00:07:58]  Now, I'll leave you to have your own Sarkeesian gasms.
[00:08:03]  Oh yes, spoken like a true skeptic.