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Princess Peach is in many ways the quintessential stock-character version of the damsel in distress.
Tropes vs. Women in Video Games (2013)
It's both possible, and even necessary, to simultaneously enjoy media while also being critical of its more problematic or pernicious aspects.
Tropes vs. Women in Video Games (2013)
I’m an open and vocal feminist on the internet, so I’m no stranger to some level of sexist backlash.
If you want to get to know a character, learn about their interests, goals or desires, their butt is probably not going to give you that information.
Tropes vs. Women in Video Games (2013)
For this video I tried to get a glimpse of Batman's rear end, but it's as if his cape is a piece of high-tech Wayne-Industries equipment designed to cover up his butt at all costs.
Tropes vs. Women in Video Games (2013)
Not a coincidence it's always men and boys committing mass shootings. The pattern is connected to ideas of toxic masculinity in our culture.
There's no such thing as sexism against men. That's because sexism is prejudice + power. Men are the dominant gender with power in society.
The "mystical pregnancy" is one of the tropes that I loathe the most, because while other tropes represent women in stereotypical ways, this one hits us on a biological level.
Tropes vs. Women in Video Games (2013)
There's a boys'-locker-room feel to the internet, where men feel they can show off for one another. A lot of the harassment is tied to this toxic masculine culture of ‘Look how cool I can be.’
Well, maybe the princess shouldn't be a damsel and she could save herself.
The Colbert Report (2014)
Why are [...] female characters in combat roles wearing high-heels? With all the fighting, running and climbing these women have to do, dressing them in high-heels is clearly a decision rooted in sexualized aesthetic pleasure rather than believability.
Tropes vs. Women in Video Games (2013)
Since mobile, indie and retro inspired games are built on a legacy of inequality in the medium the new wave of 80s and 90s nostalgia has brought with it a resurrection of the worst of the old-school damsel in distress stereotypes. Indeed, many of these new titles essentially function as love letters to the trope as a way of paying homage to classic games of years gone by.
Tropes vs. Women in Video Games (2013)
[On the Gamergate controversy] Ethics in journalism is not what's happening, in any way.
The Colbert Report (2014)
It gets worse and worse, it reinforces this idea of women as sexual objects, right; there's this idea of women as playthings for their amusement ... [that] we are not meant to be treated with respect.
What It Feels Like to Be a Gamergate Target (2015)
Anime is the most disgusting, sexist, and misogynistic form of media to ever come out of Japan. Anime defiles women and caters to perverts and losers. These cartoons are corrupting teenagers and promoting rape culture.
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Buying 1,000 dollar shoes ... — @anitasarkeesian
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