Smash Bros, McIntosh, and Jack Thompson.

So this happened:

If you’re not in the know, Jonathan McIntosh is Anita Sarkeesian’s partner on Feminist Frequency, a Youtube channel devoted to discussing gender issues in popular media.  They became infamous for their Tropes vs Women series, which attempted to analyze videogames to find instances of sexism as tropes – but instead wound up irritating many gamers due to poor research and misrepresentation.  In the ongoing events of GamerGate, McIntosh is notorious for posting really stupid stuff on Twitter: the above being his latest effort.

And boy, is this latest one a zinger.

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