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.
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The Lady Sidekick
Season 2 - Episode 8 - 0h 0m
Air Date
April 27, 2017
Overview
This episode examines how female sidekicks and companions in games are often designed to function as glorified gatekeepers, helpless burdens, and ego boosters, a pattern that works to reinforce oppressive notions about women as the ones in need of protection and men as the ones in control, who take action and do the protecting.