Actually? Can I propose an alternate viewpoint? Not disagreeing with you outright, just hear me out. Moment of Devil's Advocate here.
I
don't think that Anita wound up in this by choice. I think she was brought in as someone who had a few good ideas, and wound up, by someone's design, becoming a veritable
icon for those around her, a source of cult-like and frankly
terrifying adoration. The so-called SJW movement, for better or for worse, lionizes her and treats her with the reverence of a saint.
And yet, when we see Sarkeesian speak publicly, she's
clearly not a very good public speaker. She's clearly nervous around big crowds. She doesn't tend to react well when she's put on the spot, and we've never seen her enter a debate. Her reactions
during that teleseminar video are
extremely telling. Anita, right now, in the mother of all ironies, is nothing but a mouthpiece. She may be willingly part of this (there's a ton of money in it), she might not, but my personal belief is that she's there because she really has no choice. If she leaves, she'll be cut to ribbons (metaphorically) by the so-called SJWs that deify her. After all, they
cannot be wrong about everything being the patriarchy's fault.
She's damned if she stays, losing more and more credibility as her handlers are driven to extremes to generate the same clickbait and revenue with increasingly intense scare tactics and stronger and stronger language. She's damned if she goes, targetable by the very people who right now claim she's the embodiment of everything awesome in feminism today.
Perhaps the most bitter irony of Sarkeesian is that even if everything about her goes along a holding pattern, she's screwed either way. Increasing the volume of the crazy just alienates the norms, even as it generates clicks. Eventually you get to the point where the only market they have is the batshit crazy. And we've seen this before in the media - many times. If she tries to ratchet it back, she risks alienating the base, and the base will tear her limb from limb for being insufficiently insane. If she stays between the two, she ceases to be relevant - the copycat provocateurs will eventually outstrip her, and she will fade from relevance.
That's kind of why I can't really stay angry at her for that hilariously offensive article. She didn't write it, probably had no real hand in it, yet has to live it, for better or worse.
I kind of feel sorry for her, given this knowledge. Even if she is in this nonsense for the money and/or ego trip.