Here's a new installment in Anita Sarkeesian's Kickstarter-funded, misogynist-enraging, must-watch "Tropes vs Women in Video Games" series: Ms Male Character: a closely annotated, fascinating 25 minutes on the practice of producing a "female" version of video-games by feminizing the lead characters.
Anita Sarkeesian has released the long-awaited first installment in her new, improved "Tropes vs Women in Video Games" series.
The latest Tropes vs Women in Video Games (previously) is as on-point, smart, and deep as ever.
Feminist Frequency's excellent Tropes vs Women in Video Games has a new installment on the prevailing ways that characters' butts are presented in games: with female characters, they're emphasized, centered and revealed; with male characters, it's often literally impossible to see their butts. — Read the rest
Kate from Feminist Frequency (previously) writes, "Feminist Frequency has just released a supplemental mini-episode in their Tropes vs Women in Video Games series."
A new video from Feminist Frequency, illustrating an article by Jonathan McIntosh.
Sarkeesian was willing to go on with the show at Utah State University — as she's done after all the other death threats that she's received as a speaker — but wanted attendees checked for firearms. Ogden, UT cops refused, citing Utah's open-carry firearms law. — Read the rest
Glenn Fleishman reports from Portland's beloved arts and technology festival, where a darker sense of mission and meaning took hold in the event's third year.
Anita Sarkeesian, whose excellent Tropes vs Women in Video Games series is an important contribution to the discussion of gender and games, has been driven from her home by enraged male gamers whose stalking, and explicit, credible threats of sexual violence against her and her family convinced her to go into hiding.
Anna Sarkeesian's brilliant, crowdfunded Tropes vs Women in Video Games web-series (previously) has a new episode, Women as Background Decoration: Part 2 [TW: rape, sexual violence, violence], which expertly dissects the use of violence against women, especially sexual violence as a lazy means of establishing skimpy motivations for player characters to hunt down the baddies.
Anita Sarkeesian has posted Women as Background Decoration: Part 1, the latest installment in her Feminist Frequency Tropes vs Women in Video Games critical video series. Gamers are insanely (and I mean that literally) threatened by Sarkeesian's analysis, which is carefully and closely argued, and backed by solid scholarly research. — Read the rest
Check out some of the great videos we've blogged lately, which you can watch in our video archives:
• Bimbo's Initiation: Max Fleischer's darkest cartoon
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Menorah in Kerbal Space Program
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Michelle Steilen shows off her Bones Bearings
• When mushrooms go to war
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Mad Men with party horns in lieu of cigarettes
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Tropes vs Women in Video Games: Ms. — Read the rest
Check out some of the great videos we've blogged lately, which you can watch in our video archives:
• Blade Runner retold in 12,000 watercolors
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How astronaut Chris Hadfield inspires people to get excited about space
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A Twitter breakup, re-enacted as a web video drama
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Penguins chasing a butterfly
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A history of the bass in popular music
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Tropes vs Women in Video Games: Ms. — Read the rest
Check out some of the great videos we've blogged lately, which you can watch in our video archives:
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How astronaut Chris Hadfield inspires people to get excited about space
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A Twitter breakup, re-enacted as a web video drama
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Blade Runner animated as 12,000 hand-painted watercolor paintings
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A history of the bass in popular music
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Tropes vs Women in Video Games: Ms. — Read the rest
Check out some of the great videos we've blogged lately, which you can watch in our video archives:
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Elephant isn't very good at playing piano, but rather enjoys it
• How police can search your car without a warrant or your consent
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Blade Runner animated as 12,000 hand-painted watercolor paintings
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Rob Ford Van Damme
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Tropes vs Women in Video Games: Ms. — Read the rest
Inspired by the Damsels in Distress episode of Tropes vs Women in Video Games, and by the Dad who genderswapped Donkey Kong for his daughter, Kenna swapped the Link and Zelda sprites on a Zelda ROM.
Mike Mika's five-year-old daughter wanted to play Donkey Kong as Princess Toadstool, so he hacked the ROM to effect the genderswap .
