sorry, couldn’t read all the comments so i’m not sure if this was brought up or not.
she keeps saying at about 10-14 min mark that the “choice to use feminizing signifiers” “forces” the game/show characters to “exhibit feminine stereo-types.”
i do question the use of overly-stereotypical feminizing signifiers in games in a superficial way.
but how can she say these “feminizers” force the female stereotypes without noticing the irony?
she can’t even bring herself to ignore the signifiers.
she had some good points, and these things should be talked about and examined, but these portions almost ruined it for me. We all grew up in this skewed (and hopefully healing) society, so the cues are in-grained and hard to ignore. but most of us aren’t pontificating on their negative impact.
overall this is a very ambitious and well researched piece of work, and she should be congratulated; not least of which on angering, and hopefully educating the more shallow and reactionary side of the internets.
