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This video is based on the article "Playing with privilege: the invisible benefits of gaming while male" written by Tropes vs Women in Video Games producer Jonathan McIntosh. You can read the full ...

Content Warning: This educational episode contains graphic sexual and violent game footage.

This is the second episode exploring the Women as Background Decoration trope in video games. In this in...

Content Warning: This educational episode contains graphic sexual and violent game footage.

In this episode we explore the Women as Background Decoration trope which is the subset of largely insig...

I'm honored to be the recipient of the 2014 Game Developers Choice Ambassador Award. The Ambassador Award honors an individual or individuals who have helped the game industry advance to a better p...

In this episode we examine the Ms. Male Character trope and briefly discuss a related pattern called the Smurfette Principle. We've defined the Ms. Male Character Trope as: The female version of an...

The Legend of the Last Princess is a hypothetical game concept created in conjunction with the Tropes vs Women in Video Games web series. This short video illustrates a subversion of the tradition...

This is the third installment in our three part mini-series exploring the Damsel in Distress trope in video games. In this episode we examine the rare Dude in Distress role reversal and then take a...

TRIGGER WARNING: This video contains a handful of graphic scenes involving violence against women. Parents should preview the video first before sharing with young children.


This is the second in...

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 ...

This project was successfully funded as of June 16th 2012!

NOTE ON COMMENTS & TRIGGER WARNING: Comments on this video were closed at midnight June 16th 2012. I left the comments open on this vid...

Warning: SPOILERS for the first Hunger Games novel and movie

The Hunger Game is one of the most popular young adult novel series rivaling Harry Potter and Twilight. As the first of its film adapta...

Warning: SPOILERS for the first Hunger Games novel

The Hunger Game is one of the most popular young adult novel series' rivaling Harry Potter and Twilight. As the first of its film adaptations wa...

It's been a few years since I've checked in with The Bechdel Test for Women in Movies so I thought it would be a good time to look in on Hollywood and see if there's been any substantial improvemen...

LEGO has been intentionally marketing and producing sets and themes almost exclusively for boys over the last few decades.

In part 1 of my two part LEGO and Gender series, I explored how LEGO we...

Watch Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oe65EGkB9kA

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LEGO announced that after 4 years of intensi...

You've heard them about a bagillion times before, and every December they are played over and over again, yup, it's the same old Christmas and Holiday songs. But have you ever noticed that some of ...

Here is my Top 10 List of favourite non violent video games for the iPhone. I compiled this list because, while there is a huge variety of different types of video games, the testosterone driven, ...

The Straw Feminist trope is a deliberately created, exaggerated caricature of a feminist that is used to undermine and ridicule feminist movements. This was probably one of the most difficult and ...

The Mystical Pregnancy is a trope writers use to create drama and terror by invading, violating and exploiting women's reproductive capabilities. Often these female characters have their ovaries h...

The Evil Demon Seductress is a supernatural creature usually a demon, alien, robot, vampire etc. who is most often disguised as a sexy human female. She uses her sexuality and sexual wiles to mani...

The Smurfette Principle was named two decades ago by Katha Pollitt, when she noticed that there were a disproportionate amount of male characters in programming aimed at young people. Even in adul...

This is the second of a six part series created for Bitch Magazine - http://bitchmagazine.org

Women in Refrigerators is a trope identified by comic book fan (and now comic book writer) Gail Simo...

As soon as I saw the trailer for Sucker Punch I correctly guessed that it would be another adolescent boy fantasy masquerading as a pseudo-female-empowerment film. What I was surprised about howeve...

This is the first of a six part series created for Bitch Magazine: http://bitchmagazine.org/post/tropes-vs-women-1-the-manic...

Tropes vs. Women explores the reoccurring themes and...

Created for Feminism in Focus - WAM! 2011 and NIST.TV

Watch video interviews from other Feminist Video Creators (this link will be live starting Wednesday March 23rd, 2011) http://nist.tv/playli...

Mattie Ross is the star of the award winning film True Grit. She is a remarkable character being cast as a strong, tough, independent, and determined young woman. While I think Mattie's character...

Oscar season is a time when members of Hollywood are celebrated and reward for the work that they do. But it is also a time when we see just how male centered the movie industry really is. As All...

I really wish I hadn't seen Kanye West's leaked music video for his hit song Monster. I was horrified, furious, livid, angry, and sad; I actually didn't even get through the whole video the first t...

I recently watched afternoon cartoons on Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network and I was shocked to find a flood of highly gendered toy commercials. These ads not only market toys to children but it also...

The recently released November issue of GQ has some highly sexualized photos of select members of the Glee cast. I weigh in on the impact that a photo shoot that takes actors who play high school ...