Feminism versus FACTS (Part 3, RE Damsel in distress II).

One of the key features of Anitas most recent 'Tropes vs women' series is that sexist stereotypes in games like Mario are important in determining out attitudes to women in society.
The bottom line is this is bullcrap, and the Mario games have no more impact on the promotion of sexist stereotypes than they do on the promotion of cruelty and demonization of turtles.

Anita also makes the bold statement that these games promote sexism. Well I've heard many make claims like this about violence and video games. The problem is though, that given the amount of violent video games played, the effect on violence on society must be small to negligible. This is a far FAR stronger case than Anita has for claiming that Mario like games promote sexism.

A transcript of this video can be found here:
http://thunderf00tdotorg.wordpress.co...

Many thanks to Linda for supplying the transcript!

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