Kickstarter Project vs Gamers, or: Why don't you think about the MEN?!
Tropes vs Women in Video Games is a project by a single woman to look at and analyze several tropes and stereotypes in gaming that concerns female characters. Sounds like a reasonable project, right?

Apparently, the internet doesn't seem to agree.

This goes as well as you think.

Major trigger warnings for each link. Don't wade through comments, as usual.

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	coffee_mug 2012-06-17 08:13 pm UTC (link)
	That fucking blows. Whatever legitimate criticisms you can charge at her, a lot of her videos make really good points really succinctly. I often link to them if I use a term in a blog post or whatever that some casual readers might not be familiar with (like "Straw Feminist" in one of her Tropes Vs Women videos). (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	quantumreality 2012-06-17 08:19 pm UTC (link)
	The thing I love? (I mean, hate) Is how people are labelling her videos as "youtube rants". Oh, sorry - I wasn't aware that women discussing sexism in video games was just "ranting". (>_<) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sandglass 2012-06-17 11:10 pm UTC (link)
	But she's barely ranty! Like, at all. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	quantumreality 2012-06-18 01:13 am UTC (link)
	Yeah. I didn't get the vibe that she was either, but it's standard part and parcel of dismissing women as "ranting shrill bitches" so as to devalue what they have to say. I swear, it's like the theory and practice of SJ 101 when privileged men start yammering on about any nonprivileged member of society making valid complaints. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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