Tropes vs. Women in Video Games

tv show

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18 total episodes

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2 seasons

First Aired March 07, 2013

Overview

Tropes vs. Women in Video Games aims to examine limiting, sexist patterns associated with female representations in games, and to illuminate how these patterns reinforce and perpetuate harmful attitudes about women in our culture.

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Are Women Too Hard To Animate?

Season 2 - Episode 4 - 0h 0m

Air Date

July 27, 2016

Overview

This episode examines the general lack of female representation among standard enemies as well as in the cooperative and competitive multiplayer options of many games, and the ways in which, when female enemies do exist, they are often sexualized and set apart by their gender from the male enemies who are presented as the norm. We then highlight a few examples of games that present female enemies as standard enemies who exist on more-or-less equal footing with their male counterparts.