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Tropes vs. Women in Video Games

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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Status

Ended

Original Name

Tropes vs. Women in Video Games

First Air Date

March 7, 2013

Last Air Date

April 27, 2017

Seasons

2

Episodes

18

Language

English

Production Companies

Feminist Frequency

Networks

YouTube

S02E08

The Lady Sidekick

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.

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