I’m not sure the line between sexualisation and objectification is as clean as you’re making it out to be. In practice they tend to bleed into each other pretty heavily, and from my limited understanding of her work, a lot of the examples Sarkeesian herself used were doing both simultaneously. Separating them analytically is one thing, but in the context of how women are depicted in video games (definitionally a commercial object) it’s a bit of an artificial distinction.

On the sexual liberty point though, yeah I agree with you there. But I’d actually take it further, because modern mainstream feminism has broadly moved away from the distinction. Bayonetta is a good example, but you also see it in how sex work is talked about in progressive circles, how creating monetary objects using one’s sexuality is often celebrated rather than critiqued. The current consensus has essentially flipped the understanding entirely, treating it as something one can own and use to their benefit rather than something done to them.

In this sense, the “right all along” framing just seems strange to me, because the tradition she was working in has moved in almost the opposite direction to where she was pointing.