Anita Sarkeesian (1983) American blogger
<i>Damsel in Distress: Part 3 (Aug 1, 2013)</i>
Tropes vs. Women in Video Games (Feminist Frequency, 2013 - 2015)
The Colbert Report (Comedy Central, 2014)
Anita Sarkeesian (1983) American blogger
<i>Damsel in Distress: Part 3 (Aug 1, 2013)</i>
Tropes vs. Women in Video Games (Feminist Frequency, 2013 - 2015)
“I don't damsel well. Distress, I can do. Damseling? Not so much.”
James Patterson (1947) American author
Source: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports
Frederik Pohl book Man Plus
Source: Man Plus (1976), Chapter 11, “Dorothy Louise Mintz Torraway as Penelope” (p. 146)
Hans Christian Andersen book The Princess and the Pea
The Princess and the Pea
Fairy Tales (1835)
Source: The Princess and the Pea: The Graphic Novel
“Maybe she hadn’t saved the world but she had made a major improvement.”
Charles Bukowski book Post Office
Post Office (1971)
Context: I squeezed Fay’s hand, kissed her on the forehead. She closed her eyes and seemed to sleep then. She was not a young woman. Maybe she hadn’t saved the world but she had made a major improvement. Ring one up for Fay.
“Once, there was a girl who vowed she would save everyone in the world, but forgot herself.”
Holly Black book The Darkest Part of the Forest
Source: The Darkest Part of the Forest
Aristophanés (-448–-386 BC) Athenian playwright of Old Comedy
tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text.jsp?doc=Aristoph.+Eccl.+236 <br class="br">Ecclesiazusae, line 236-238 <br class="br">Ecclesiazusae (392 BC)
“It's a strange new world out there and the rules have changed: It's every princess for herself.”
Karen Marie Moning (1964) author
Source: Bloodfever