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.

All the Slender Ladies: Body Diversity in Video Games poster unavailable

All the Slender Ladies: Body Diversity in Video Games

Season 2 - Episode 5 - 0h 0m

Air Date

September 01, 2016

Overview

This episode examines the very limited range of female body types commonly seen in games, contrasting this with the much wider range of physiques that male characters frequently possess. We then illustrates that, when female characters appear who do have a body type that is notably different from the slender physique that games establish as the standard, these bodies are sometimes presented as a joke, or as a twisted transgression of social standards and expectations. We examine how this limited range extends to the age of female characters as well, before highlighting a few examples of games that have positive representations of women with different body types and women who are older.