I'll be honest: I found Anita through the internet explosion and have been wracking my brain as to why some were intent on shutting down a series of videos before the content of them could even be analyzed.
Some general opinions I have had over all her videos:
- She, as much as I think people avoid stating it, actually does know the field she's talking about to some degree. If I were a professor, I'd be comfortable using the "description of a trope" part of her videos. Additionally, her main field of social thought and communication is pretty obviously her bread and butter.
- Her arguments typically have merit at their core. The tropes she often dismisses do have concerns if they are continually lopsided in usage. Where she heads with this after and the claims she makes are debatable (and something I wish people would spend more time debating as oppose to nitpicking her choice of words or examples), but the core generally has something that deserves consideration.
- She struggles with parody, usage, and their implications.
- Her arguments can come down to something that she doesn't describe: rates and hard statistics. Rate of usage of a trope can be fairly important to how much we perceive the trope as being associated to gender and she almost never does numerical studies, satisfied with a case study approach. Sometimes, it feels like she's proving by example, which can irk viewers who want to disagree, but can't speak to her to get more information on her conclusions.
- Her logic is hardly flawless. Often, she starts with a reasonable point and then spins it into a point that not everybody can get on board with. And I think this is where a lot of people turn their backs and run.
Overall, honestly she's not unlike bloggers I've heard from: her arguments sometimes don't add up and sometimes require further dialogue to understand and form your own opinion about, but she's (most of the time) familiar enough with the subject matter to at least be able to form an opinion. Sometimes she'll make odd logical jumps (to which the logic oriented part of your mind will go crazy on), but take it or what it is: another opinion on the internet.
Sometimes odd, but hardly worth the backlash
I'll be honest: I found Anita through the internet explosion and have been wracking my brain as to why some were intent on shutting down a series of videos before the content of them could even be analyzed.
Some general opinions I have had over all her videos:
- She, as much as I think people avoid stating it, actually does know the field she's talking about to some degree. If I were a professor, I'd be comfortable using the "description of a trope" part of her videos. Additionally, her main field of social thought and communication is pretty obviously her bread and butter.
- Her arguments typically have merit at their core. The tropes she often dismisses do have concerns if they are continually lopsided in usage. Where she heads with this after and the claims she makes are debatable (and something I wish people would spend more time debating as oppose to nitpicking her choice of words or examples), but the core generally has something that deserves consideration.
- She struggles with parody, usage, and their implications.
- Her arguments can come down to something that she doesn't describe: rates and hard statistics. Rate of usage of a trope can be fairly important to how much we perceive the trope as being associated to gender and she almost never does numerical studies, satisfied with a case study approach. Sometimes, it feels like she's proving by example, which can irk viewers who want to disagree, but can't speak to her to get more information on her conclusions.
- Her logic is hardly flawless. Often, she starts with a reasonable point and then spins it into a point that not everybody can get on board with. And I think this is where a lot of people turn their backs and run.
Overall, honestly she's not unlike bloggers I've heard from: her arguments sometimes don't add up and sometimes require further dialogue to understand and form your own opinion about, but she's (most of the time) familiar enough with the subject matter to at least be able to form an opinion. Sometimes she'll make odd logical jumps (to which the logic oriented part of your mind will go crazy on), but take it or what it is: another opinion on the internet.