Our reimagined Nintendo princess stickers are on their way to backers of the Tropes vs Women in Video Games Kickstarter project who selected the sticker reward level.
I got mine yesterday!
Damsel in Distress: Part 1 - Tropes vs Women in Video Games
This video explores how the Damsel in Distress became one of the most widely used gendered clichés in the history of gaming and why the trope has been core to the popularization and development of the medium itself. As a trope the Damsel in Distress is a plot device in which a female character is placed in a perilous situation from which she cannot escape on her own and must then be rescued by a male character, usually providing a core incentive or motivation for the protagonist’s quest.
ABOUT THE VIDEO SERIES
The Tropes vs Women in Video Games project aims to examine the plot devices and patterns most often associated with female characters in gaming from a systemic, big picture perspective. This series will include critical analysis of many beloved games and characters, but remember that it is both possible (and even necessary) to simultaneously enjoy media while also being critical of it’s more problematic or pernicious aspects.
For more examples of the Damsel in Distress see our Tumblr for this series: http://tropesversuswomen.tumblr.com
Visit http://www.feministfrequency.com for more information, videos and a full transcript.
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There’s a guy in my neighborhood who dresses like Jesus Christ. He walks around Fountain, in Hollywood, just doin’ his thing - petting dogs and saying “hi” to everyone. Jesus My Neighbor, and most of the people in L.A., are pretty great. I’m super lucky to know a lot of smart, kind, weird and…
My only beef with this (awesome) post is the part where she said that DJ is a good person. I guess I am running out of tolerance fore this argument “He/She isn’t a bad person, He/She just does/says racist, sexist, homophobic, generally jerk-ish things. At the end of the day isn’t a bad person just a person who does bad things?
I’m an intern in surgery, PhD level, also completing a Master of life sciences. I spent a year and a half studying a particular point of heart embryology for that master and presented my results in a national symposium. Everything went well. Five prizes were to be awarded to juniors. The first…
I have this conversation with a lot of other people who are minorities because it is something that is often in the back of my mind (a form of impostor’s syndrome).. Do you ever fear that your success is because of your minority status? Here are some of the responses I get:
I have never and will never take any help based on my minority status, including grants scholarships or jobs. If I find out that I have received something because of my minority status I will return/refuse it.
There are so many things working against me in my field because of my minority status that if there are special fund put aside for people like me then why not take advantage? It would be a drop in the bucket as far as counteracting the imbalance.
I don’t really think about it.
My personal feeling is that if they gave this award to a woman because she is a woman then they admitting that they gave the other 4 awards to men because they are men (and probably all prior awards too). So the question is not “Why did you give this one award to a woman?” but “Why do you consistently refuse to give any awards based on merit?”. The need for balance is not a sexist act but evidence that sexism has been active in our communities all along.
We spend so much money on things why can’t we spend some one this? I get it, tax policy is hard. Nobody wants to pay taxes. Nobody wants the elderly to die in poverty. Nobody wants children to starve to death. Nobody wants the roads to be shitty, or Canada to invade Montana. But the space program is one of the most amazing things human beings have ever done! Not Americans, not in the 20th century, It is one of the greatest human achievements EVER!
“Remember that time people invaded that place and killed those people?”
“Which one are you talking about?”
“Remember that time we put humans on the moon?”
“Yeah, that was awesome!”
So how about less war and more science?
What America Needs Now: Clinton/Booker 2016
Fuck this election. We’re looking toward the future. Clinton/Booker 2016. Hillary for prez; she holds it down on a global level. Cory Booker for veep; he’ll save your grandma from a burning house and then invite you over to chill, while quoting Frederick Douglass. America needs this now more than ever: Something amazing to look forward to. Look at that image by the incomparable Jim Cooke. Don’t you feel better already? Clinton/Booker 2016. Pass it on.
Ummm…… HELL YES! Two options, 1) They run for president or 2) They make this into an action movie! (I would watch that so hard).
“Our house was small, and when you grow up with domestic violence in a confined space you learn to gauge, very precisely, the temperature of situations. I knew exactly when the shouting was done and a hand was about to be raised – I also knew exactly when to insert a small body between the fist and her face, a skill no child should ever have to learn. Curiously, I never felt fear for myself and he never struck me, an odd moral imposition that would not allow him to strike a child. The situation was barely tolerable: I witnessed terrible things, which I knew were wrong, but there was nowhere to go for help. Worse, there were those who condoned the abuse. I heard police or ambulancemen, standing in our house, say, “She must have provoked him,” or, “Mrs Stewart, it takes two to make a fight.” They had no idea. The truth is my mother did nothing to deserve the violence she endured. She did not provoke my father, and even if she had, violence is an unacceptable way of dealing with conflict. Violence is a choice a man makes and he alone is responsible for it.”
Make it so.
Google Blockly lets kids hack with no keyboard.
Behold the future of visual programming!
I love this with all my heart!
