Dr. Caroline Heldman breaks it down
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Amazing video. Should be required viewing for high school students. I may make it required viewing for my future college students.
“The Fighting Fucktoy” is my new favourite phrase.
See: Why male gaze is awful and needs to be addressed
This documentary was awesome and powerful definitely recommend that you guys watch it!
A subject we referenced a couple of times before, which constantly needs to be reiterated: there’s a crucial difference between female characters being primarily badass while incidentally sexy and characters being primarily sexy while incidentally badass.
It’s super disingenuous to obviously design a heroine’s look, personality and actions around (straight) male gaze appeal and repackage it as female empowerment just because she’s technically a powerful hero (or sometimes, a villain).
~Ozzie
This week’s throwback: Fighting F*cktoy or “How to make absolutely no progress in the way female characters are depicted and repackage it as empowerment”.
~Ozzie
Black Desert Online
@avatarwill113 submitted:
A Dark Knight from Black Desert Online. It’s so incredible generic and dreadful.
I do get the feeling that Black Desert Online crew does more research looking through Lady Gaga’s wardrobe than any textbook. Sadly this doesn’t make them unique in the slightest, just perhaps the most blatant. (x)
Of course, Lady Gaga is trying to get attention through some combination of shock and novelty, and is hopefully not expecting to get trapped in mortal combat at any moment.
– wincenworks