Why it’s important to talk about Tropes vs. Women In Video Games

Re:Why it’s important to talk about Tropes vs. Women In Vide... by revelation on Tuesday March 19, 2013 @11:49PM (#5405517)

“The reality is this trope is being used in a real world context where backwards sexist attitudes are already rampant. It’s a sad fact that a large percentage of the world’s population still clings to the deeply sexist belief that women, as a group, need to be sheltered, protected and taken care of by men.”

Did she really just generalize about double-digit percentages of the whole world population?

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Re:Why it’s important to talk about Tropes vs. Women In Vide... by lowboy on Wednesday March 20, 2013 @01:07AM (#5405755)

Maybe there's a source for it and it's not generalization. I'd believe that a "large" percentage (not the majority, but double digits) of the population thinks that women need some level of care/consideration by men, and that there would be quite a few women in that group.

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Re:Why it’s important to talk about Tropes vs. Women In Vide... by a_bonobo on Wednesday March 20, 2013 @01:44AM (#5405848)

It's a fairly large research area, the effect in question is called "benevolent sexism", in which women are portrayed as being "weaker" (where the definition of weak is NOT purely physical strength) and need help to get along in life.

The interesting thing is that benevolent sexism is also widely spread in women themselves.

Here's a fairly recent paper about the spread of benevolent/hostile sexism in university undergrads, where benevolent sexism was relatively evenly spread between male and females: http://pwq.sagepub.com/content/36/4/432.full

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Re:Why it’s important to talk about Tropes vs. Women In Vide... by GHFigs on Wednesday March 20, 2013 @12:35AM (#5405664)

Shh. It's okay when feminists do it.

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