Yeah, I'd forgotten that bit of the video. Whether you want to argue about how prevalent that particular sub-trope is it's very hard to argue that these aren't all good examples of it and all from recent AAA games.
Because I have to constantly look out for repetitiveness in my own writing, the re-use of "more insidious" jumped out at me.
That's all I've got.
Yup. While of course there is still editorializing (this isn't a news report, this is the video equivalent of a hybrid academic/persuasive essay), I feel like while the first video was a little shaky in spots, Sarkeesian really hits her stride in this one.
She's using a diverse range of examples for each point, and backing her persuasive claims with a mixture of logic and the aforementioned examples. There aren't any insults or invectives being hurled at anyone.
I do want to say that it still bothers me a little to be taking the discussion down to such a micro level. It smacks of tone policing and I think it's still quite on-the-nose to point out that we have no women participating in this discussion - granted, there was plenty of that in the Games & Platforms threads on Sarkeesian and (of course) the safe space thread. But this degree of nit-picking at Sarkeesian's videos still makes me uncomfortable.
On the plus side, it is good to review the content of her video series since it's been a while since I watched them.
Oh, I'm still following. Just already had my say and didn't have more to add.
Still reading and interested. Finding it supremely difficult to contribute in a meaningful way... mostly because of the laser focus and my tendency to ramble incoherently.
Nothing to pick out in this case; she's basically throwing out more relevant examples to illustrate what she is describing.
Nothing controversial in this beat. GTG
In Breath of Fire 4 (2000) Elina has been turned into a hideous monster and then begs you to kill her.
AUGH SPOILERS!!!
Eh, ok, I'm so late to the party for that one that I really have no room to complain.
I actually don't remember this part of the video, and have to admit that the "Euthanized Damsel" moniker is disturbingly fitting.
So Sarkeesian's point here continues to flow from the prior beats; she's accurately accomplishing her goal from an earlier beat of identifying multiple hybridizations between the Damsel in Distress and some other varied tropes.
So we’ve seen developers try to spice up the Damsel in Distress cliché by combining it with other tropes that involve victimized women. I’ve identified a few of the most common of these trope-cocktails, which join together multiple regressive or negative representations of women including the disposable woman, the mercy killing and the woman in the refrigerator.
This one is the first time that I'd be really curious to see how frequently it is used against women versus against men or general groups of people, because I know I've seen the "put them out of their misery" trope a lot in games over the years. Hell, Bioware games like Mass Effect and Dragon Age have gotten quite a bit of mileage out of the "mercy killing" trope.
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