I'm a little irritated =/

So, I was curious about FemistFrequency and her videos about 'tropes vs. women' the whole Damsel in distress thing...

That was the biggest load of 'I just made this up as I went along' garbage I've ever had the displeasure of listening to. -.-'

I love how the ending moral of her three part series was 'Males as protagonists is always sexist 100% of the time' such a wonderful, meaningful message that she never once bothered to back up with any sort of meaningful data.

She made zero comparisons through her series, she strictly focused on only 'damsel in distress' games without offering anything that it could be compared to for a clear understanding of it's level of good vs. bad. She simply expected you to 'take her word for it' throughout the whole thing. I mean seriously she only once in all three videos mentioned an outside source of information and that was a poll ( which she never provided a link for or even discussed who released the poll...I guess I'm supposed to just take her word that it existed because she didn't provide a means of fact-checking ) =/

Also, she really had me when she suggested that it's only bad 'when it happens to women' that it happening to men is totally okay and shouldn't be given a second thought ( except to encourage more of it ) so it was completely backwards and a double standard really -.-'

That was a giant waste of my life...

Where are the people who actually provide meaningful depth in their analysis of sexism in games?

I actually think in a lot of ways video games are a little sexist, but this video provided nothing to that discussion...maybe her fans could have, but since she doesn't like comments being posted on her page we'll never know =/

 

Of course they do. Why wouldn't they?

It's perfectly okay to judge males based on stereotypes =/


Seriously though...this woman -.-'

I was honestly giving her a fair shot when I stepped into that video, but that was just a load of nonsense

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6p5AZp7r_Q

and yes, she does make all the claims I mentioned.

My biggest problem is her completely lack of any opinion besides her own. She doesn't cite articles, she doesn't reference the other side of the argument ( at all not even once ), and she can't even be bothered to turn her comments on and open up the discussion.

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I agree. I think in a lot of ways videos games do have some sexist tendancies. I was actually fairly interested in this video because of that. My problem is her failure to give a real argument on the subject. It's just her giving you one side of the story ( her side ) I don't like people like that.

Any good argumentative piece includes cited resources and counter-arguments to the claim your making.

Think about papers you've had to write in college ( assuming you've been there ) they want you to provide at least a handful of arguments from the 'other side' because your paper should be engaging and informative not misleading and one sided.

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Cortana! ( admittedly she's an AI, but without her Chief can't do a damn thing. )

I can't remember the girl's name, but the protagonist in the Perfect Dark series was a woman and a badass too! <3

Almost all of the Silent Hill games have a female protagonist

The antagonist in F.E.A.R is a little girl who's easily one of the most terrifying enemies of all time 0.0

I know there are others I'm just drawing a blank at the moment =/

 

She talks about Super Princess Peach in the 3rd installment of her 3 part series. ( she didn't lie about that...she just really drug her feet on it )

I actually did happen to agree with her thoughts on 'Mario'. That game is pretty sexist, and it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure it out...everything else I'm skeptical she didn't provide anything other than an overhyped opinion.

Also, she got donated 100,000 dollars on kickstarter to do her "in depth" analysis of video games...I'm wondering where that money went because clearly she didn't use it on video quality. Seriously where did that money go? With the amount of money she got to do these videos of hers there should be some high quality animations, some interviews with esteemed people, and all sorts of other things...instead we get a crappy 'copy/paste' platform that probably cost her 1 webcam and a bit of software that was like maybe a hundred bucks of so...talk about rip off.

 

Yes, yes she did. I don't know if it was these three in particular or the other two on the same topic, but they're all about the same...=/

Super Princess Peach is unimaginably sexist 0.0

Her power is PMS

 

Oh btw two things

1.) I was wrong she got 160,000 dollars https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/566429325/tropes-vs-women-in-video-games

2.) I forgot that she plagiarized someone's art and refuses to credit them for their work knowing that it's theirs.

 

"While these types of games are a refreshing departure from the standard formula, and something I'd like to see more of, the focus is still solely on the male characters. and so at their core, these games are really deconstructing the player's assumptions of the traditional hero archetype. A true subversion of the trope would have to star the damsel as the main playable character." - in reference to games challenging the gender stereotype she dislikes.

Translation

"Yeah these games are challenging sexism, but it's still sexist because men are the protagonists"

At least that's how I read into that statement...=/