
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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Air Date: 2013-03-07
This video explores how the Damsel in Distress became one of the most widely used gendered cliché in the history of g...
Air Date: 2013-05-28
This is the second in a series of three videos exploring the Damsel in Distress trope in video games. In this install...
Air Date: 2013-08-01
This is the third installment in our three part mini-series exploring the Damsel in Distress trope in video games. In...
Air Date: 2013-08-01
In this episode we examine the Ms. Male Character trope and briefly discuss a related pattern called the Smurfette Pr...
Air Date: 2014-06-16
In this episode we explore the Women as Background Decoration trope which is the subset of largely insignificant non-...
Air Date: 2014-08-25
This is the second episode exploring the Women as Background Decoration trope in video games. In this installment we ...
Air Date: 2015-03-31
In the debut episode of our series on Positive Female Characters, we celebrate the Scythian, the protagonist of Capyb...
Air Date: 2015-05-11
This episode of our series on Positive Female Characters focuses on Jade, the protagonist of Ubisoft’s 2003 action-ad...
Air Date: 2015-08-31
Content Warning: This educational episode contains game footage of a graphic sexual nature. This episode explores th...
Air Date: 2015-09-14
This totally free supplemental add-on content pack for our Women as Reward video examines how women’s bodies are used...