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Title card used in the Tropes vs. Women in Video Games videos. Gamergate expanded to include renewed harassment of prominent feminist media critic Anita Sarkeesian, [78] [79] who had previously been a target of online harassment in 2012 due in part to her YouTube video series Tropes vs. Women in Video Games, which analyzes sexist portrayals of ...
Tropes vs. Women in Video Games is a YouTube video series created by Anita Sarkeesian examining gender representation in video games.The series was financed via crowdfunding, and came to widespread attention when its Kickstarter campaign triggered a wave of online harassment against Sarkeesian, [2] causing her to flee her home at one point.
Title card used in the Tropes vs Women videos. Sarkeesian initially planned to release the Tropes vs. Women in Video Games series in 2012 but pushed it back explaining that the additional funding allowed her to expand the scope and scale of the project. The first video in the Tropes vs Women in Video Games series was released on March 7, 2013. [26]
“That trope of the innocent white woman who is being attacked by a superhuman, violent Black man is really central to the American culture and the American story,” Daniels says; the narrative ...
The sex symbol caters to the male gaze; the scorned woman terrifies it. At its crux, the scorned women trope relies on the idea that women are either attractive or unhinged, and the line between ...
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McIntosh argues that the Born Sexy Yesterday trope reveals deep male insecurities regarding sex and relationships, reflecting a desire to control female identities and a fear of female agency. This trope embodies an obsession with power over innocent women, normalizing real-world sexism within the sci-fi and fantasy genres. [5] [8]
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