Name: All the Slender Ladies: Body Diversity in Video Games
Released: 2016-09-01

Tropes vs. Women in Video Games

S2 · E5 — All the Slender Ladies: Body Diversity in Video Games

S2:E5 · All the Slender Ladies: Body Diversity in Video Games

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8 episodes in this season

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Body Language & The Male Gaze

Lingerie is not Armor

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All the Slender Ladies: Body Diversity in Video Games

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The Lady Sidekick

Tropes vs. Women in Video Games

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20132.4

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All the Slender Ladies: Body Diversity in Video Games

Season 2 · Episode 5 · Sep 1, 2016

This episode examines the very limited range of female body types commonly seen in games, contrasting this with the much wider range of physiques that male characters frequently possess. We then illustrates that, when female characters appear who do have a body type that is notably different from the slender physique that games establish as the standard, these bodies are sometimes presented as a joke, or as a twisted transgression of social standards and expectations. We examine how this limited range extends to the age of female characters as well, before highlighting a few examples of games that have positive representations of women with different body types and women who are older.

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Tropes vs. Women in Video Games

TV Series

20132.4

DocumentaryTalk

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All the Slender Ladies: Body Diversity in Video Games

Season 2 · Episode 5 · Sep 1, 2016

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