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“[On the GamerGate Controversy]: Ethics in journalism is not what's happening, in any way.”

Anita Sarkeesian

The Colbert Report (Comedy Central, 2014)

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“Princess Peach is in many ways the quintessential stock-character version of the damsel in distress.”

Anita Sarkeesian

<i>Damsel in Distress: Part 3 (Aug 1, 2013)</i>
Tropes vs. Women in Video Games (Feminist Frequency, 2013 - 2015)

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“The mystical pregnancy is one of the tropes that I loathe the most because while other tropes represent women in stereotypical ways, this one hits us on a biological level.”

Anita Sarkeesian

<i>The Mystical Pregnancy (Jul 28, 2011)</i>
Tropes vs. Women in Video Games (Feminist Frequency, 2013 - 2015)

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“We can trace the woman as reward trope all the way back the beginning of the medium itself as […] upon successful completion of many arcade games players were rewarded with a related smooch of victory trope, so named for the kiss the hero received as a reward for rescuing a kidnapped princess. Sometimes the prize is blatant as with the standard hero reward in which the king will give his daughter to the hero. On other occasions it's taken a step further by employing the parallel of sex for victory or rescue sex trope.”

Anita Sarkeesian

<i>Women as Reward (Aug 31, 2015)</i>
Tropes vs. Women in Video Games (Feminist Frequency, 2013 - 2015)

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“Since mobile, indie and retro inspired games are built on a legacy of inequality in the medium the new wave of 80s and 90s nostalgia has brought with it a resurrection of the worst of the old-school damsel in distress stereotypes. Indeed, many of these new titles essentially function as love letters to the trope as a way of paying homage to classic games of years gone by.”

Anita Sarkeesian

<i>Damsel in Distress: Part 3 (Aug 1, 2013)</i>
Tropes vs. Women in Video Games (Feminist Frequency, 2013 - 2015)

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