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"If you spend enough time on The Internet, it can be easy to forget how
inflated and meaningless so much of the back and forth is, or how adept
it is at skewing the view of reality. To know Sarkeesian's name is to
know the ongoing story of hate, threats and controversy that surround
her Kickstarted video series 'Feminist Frequency: Tropes vs. Women in
Video-Games;' and, if you chiefly know of her by the sustained
relentlessness of all that coordinated intimidation, it's easy to
imagine her arriving at an event like this being hustled directly to the
stage in a bullet-proof vest guarded by a small army of burly bodyguards
like Salman Rushdie once upon a time."
Her most recent video is here:
Ms. Male Character - Tropes vs Women in Video Games
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYqYLfm1rWA
"In this episode we examine the Ms. Male Character trope and briefly
discuss a related pattern called the Smurfette Principle. We've defined
the Ms. Male Character Trope as: The female version of an already
established or default male character."
Let's hope that we are finally starting to address the pervasive sexism
in video games. That would be long overdue and most welcome.
Via Tracy Hurley, Tony Sidaway and sara stanley
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*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
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http://www.sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
