Name: Women as Background Decoration (Part 2)
Released: 2014-08-25

Tropes vs. Women in Video Games

S1 · E6 — Women as Background Decoration (Part 2)

S1:E6 · Women as Background Decoration (Part 2)

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Damsel in Distress (Part 2)

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Women as Background Decoration (Part 1)

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Women as Background Decoration (Part 2)

Season 1 · Episode 6 · Aug 25, 2014

This is the second episode exploring the Women as Background Decoration trope in video games. In this installment we expand our discussion to examine how sexualized female bodies often occupy a dual role as both sexual playthings and the perpetual victims of male violence. The Women as Background Decoration trope which is the subset of largely insignificant non-playable female characters whose sexuality or victimhood is exploited as a way to infuse edgy, gritty or racy flavoring into game worlds. These sexually objectified female bodies are designed to function as environmental texture while titillating presumed straight male players. Sometimes they’re created to be glorified furniture but they are frequently programmed as minimally interactive sex objects to be used and abused.

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Tropes vs. Women in Video Games

TV Series

20132.4

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Women as Background Decoration (Part 2)

Season 1 · Episode 6 · Aug 25, 2014

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