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8 episodes in this season

Strategic Butt Coverings

Body Language & The Male Gaze

Lingerie is not Armor

Are Women Too Hard To Animate?

All the Slender Ladies: Body Diversity in Video Games

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Sinister Seductress

Not Your Exotic Fantasy

The Lady Sidekick

Tropes vs. Women in Video Games

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20132.4

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Sinister Seductress

Season 2 · Episode 6 · Sep 28, 2016

This episode explores how female villains in games very often function to demonize femaleness itself, drawing on patterns of female representation that have roots in creatures from myth and folklore which reinforced misogynistic attitudes about women in their own time. We look at Grotesquely Female characters: those who communicate that femaleness is abhorrent and disgusting, and at Sinister Seductresses: those who suggest that female sexuality is inherently threatening and misleading. We then explore characters who blend these two notions, initially appearing attractive and alluring, only to have their true form revealed as monstrous and deadly. Finally, we demonstrate that it’s entirely possible to have great female villains who don’t serve to reinforce false, misogynistic ideas about women as a whole.

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Tropes vs. Women in Video Games

TV Series

20132.4

DocumentaryTalk

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Sinister Seductress

Season 2 · Episode 6 · Sep 28, 2016

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