Feminist Frequency mascot,
Anita Sarkeesian, failed to drop the mic while addressing the United
Nations earlier this year, leaving delegates confused and doubtful as
to the sincerity of her stance on issues affecting women in
videogaming.
The botched conclusion to
what should have been a triumphant address occurred during an
assembly of the U.N. women's coalition, in September, where the
“rising tide of online violence against women and girls” was
discussed before the Broadband Commission Working Group on Gender.
Witnesses present at the
commission claim that Sarkeesian ended her speech by reading scripted
stage instructions out loud off an autocue.
Mobile phone footage has
now surfaced showing the half-orc, Feminist Frequency puppet master -
Josh 'my name is Jonathan' McIntosh, viewing the debate from a male
quarantine area, covering his astonished face with both hands and
shaking his head as his prodigy finishes her robotic address with the
words:
“Peace out. Mic drop.
Exit stage immediately.”
As Sarkeesian remains
standing motionless on the platform, still holding the microphone and
gazing at the autocue, awaiting further instructions, a ripple of
confusion in the audience gives way to scattered applause.
The revelation comes as a
further blow to the shop-soiled credibility of the beleaguered
Sarkeesian, whose face was recently removed from the Feminist
Frequency Twitter account and replaced by a Picasso painting titled –
Tampons in Spring – an
abstract depicting the used feminine sanitary products of the painter,
Marie Laurencin.
Critics and jaded
supporters alike have spoken disparagingly of Sarkeesian's tendency
to read anything that is put in front of her. In June, 2014, this
resulted in an incident at Oberlin College and Conservatory where an
alleged software glitch saw her give a deadpan rendition of the
classic Doctor Who episode - Genesis of the Daleks to
a packed auditorium.
In this case, Sarkeesian's
reputation was only saved by a gushing article in the Huffington
Post praising her as a modern-day teller of parables, comparing
the Daleks to the much-maligned GamerGate movement and their
malevolent creator - the crippled genius Davros - to the 8chan
administrator – Hotwheelz.
Since its invention in
69BC, by the Roman orator - Cicero, the mic drop has been a powerful
weapon in the arsenal of the public speaker: Typically a lecturer
will discard the mic directly after finishing their address, before
affecting an unhurried exit from the stage, without acknowledging the
thunderous applause from the audience. The implication is that the
speaker's arguments are so powerful that there is no need for them to
hold on to the means to respond to any rebuttal, since there can be
no comeback.
Mic dropping is outlawed
in most parliaments but is still allowed at the U.N. where attempts
to outlaw the practice have been defeated by a powerful voting block
headed by Russia.
When MODE 5 attempted to
contact Anita Sarkeesian for comment, we were told by a Feminist
Frequency spokesperson:
“Anita has gone away
forever to live on a nice farm upstate, where there is plenty of
space for her to run around and play.”
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