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Tropes vs Women in Video Games part one: Damsels in Distress

1 decade 1 year 8 months 3 weeks ago

Anita Sarkeesian has released the long-awaited first installment in her new, improved "Tropes vs Women in Video Games" series. Sarkeesian sought $6,000 on Kickstarter to produce slicker versions of her earlier, DIY series, and she was smeared by vile, angry gamer-dudes who created games where you could beat the crap out of her for the sin of identifying as a feminist and daring to question the portrayal of gender in games. The happy ending to this shameful episode is that her Kickstarter became a good-people vs goons plebiscite, and would up raising $158,922.

The first installment is "Damsels in Distress," and is a smart, well-researched, wonderfully presented history of the woman-waiting-for-a-hero trope through gaming history. It's just in time for International Women's Day, and is a wonderful kickoff for a new series.

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Yogi

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The internet morons absolutely imploded. It was the classic case of you have an idea in your head of Your Story, and you're the hero in it. And when someone points out how good you have it or you're really a bastard you react angrily to someone ruining your story.

Luckily for me I've always known I sucked, so it's very easy to go "Iraq war, yep that was my fault...slavery, that one was on me...Holocaust, well I am of German decent."