Tropes vs. Women in Video Games
tv show

18 total episodes
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2 seasons
First Aired March 07, 2013
Genres:
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.
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.