Tropes vs. Women in Video Games(2013)
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First Air Date: 2013-03-07
Average Runtime: N/A
Rating: 2.8
Votes: 4
Seasons: 2
Episodes: 18
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.
Keywords
video gamefeminism
Seasons & Episodes
Season 1
Episodes: 10E01
Damsel in Distress (Part 1)
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...
E02
Damsel in Distress (Part 2)
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...
E03
Damsel in Distress (Part 3)
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...
E04
Ms. Male Character
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...
E05
Women as Background Decoration (Part 1)
Air Date: 2014-06-16
In this episode we explore the Women as Background Decoration trope which is the subset of largely insignificant non-...
E06
Women as Background Decoration (Part 2)
Air Date: 2014-08-25
This is the second episode exploring the Women as Background Decoration trope in video games. In this installment we ...
E07
The Scythian – Positive Female Characters in Video Games
Air Date: 2015-03-31
In the debut episode of our series on Positive Female Characters, we celebrate the Scythian, the protagonist of Capyb...
E08
Jade - Positive Female Characters in Video Games
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...
E09
Women as Reward
Air Date: 2015-08-31
Content Warning: This educational episode contains game footage of a graphic sexual nature. This episode explores th...
E10
Women as Reward – Special DLC Mini-Episode
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...
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