Anita Sarkeesian has brought her controversial Tropes vs. Women in Video Games video series to an end with a final episode.
One of the bigger controversies in the modern video gaming world was Anita Sarkeesian’s Tropes vs. Women in Video Games video series. It was both heavily criticized and heavily defended by proponents on either side, which led to a lot of overall nastiness including some very serious claims of internet harassment from Sarkeesian. She has now decided to wrap up the series with one final episode: “The Lady Sidekick”, which you can watch to the right.
The project was first announced some five years ago, when Sarkeesian ran a Kickstarter asking for $6,000 to explore feminist issues within video games. She instead received a whopping $160,000 to pursue her project, and has done so over the last years.
In a blog post discussing the conclusion of the project, she describes the whole saga as “simultaneously awful and wonderful, and the journey is one which I will most certainly never forget.”
“Doing meticulous, comprehensive research spanning the entire history of video games as preparation for those episodes was tremendously difficult and time-consuming,” she writes, “but looking back, I believe the results speak for themselves.”
While Sarkeesian may be done with the project, the production team Feminist Frequency has a new series planned that will use its “signature feminist media analysis” to “examine the connection between representations in pop culture and the racism, sexism, and transphobia of our current political climate.”
Source: Feminist Frequency.
