You want alternatives? I'll give you alternatives.
Cara Ellison and John Walker (and the others, but mainly them) over at
Rock Paper Shotgun often write insightful stuff about this topic and cover relevant issues, but it's unfair comparing anybody to RPS (the only game news site that does actual journalism sometimes instead of never). They're not doing huge academic treatments or anything but it's a common theme of their articles.
The meta-blog
Critical Distance updates once a week with links to good game writing, with a particular eye for social issues, which means the portrayal of women in games and the prevalence of sexism among its producers and consumers is a frequent topic. Following links there might lead you to some good stuff.
That's just a couple. You could also prove how cool you are by thinking about this on your own.
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My initial appraisal of Sarkeesian was that TV Tropes-level commentary, simply enumerating as many instances as possible of incidents that are germane to the normalization of problematic portrayals of women in games, wasn't going to cut the mustard for me. I mean, look, it's right there in the title. But I figured that, even if I couldn't, there were still people out there still ignorant enough to learn something from such a superficial treatment.
I think that you don't
need to have actually played a game in order to just mark it on a thematically tone-deaf Checklist of Trope Adherence. For instance, I think it
is relevant to point out that Eversion makes use of save-the-princess imagery: that Nehema is the goal, even though by the fiction of the game Zee Tee is just going to visit her. The next question to ask would be "So what?" which has several potentially interesting answers that there's apparently no room for in Tropes Versus Women.
On the other hand, plagiarism is a serious offense. Conversations about plagiarism are necessarily about the plagiarist, because the whole point is that the research ostensibly stands on its own. Misrepresenting one's research is the ultimate credibility-destroyer.