Tropes vs. Women in Video Games
Season 2 Episode 8 - The Lady Sidekick
2.8 ?
2013
Documentary, Talk
This episode examines how female sidekicks and companions in games are often designed to function as glorified gatekeepers, helpless burdens, and ego boosters, a pattern that works to reinforce oppressive notions about women as the ones in need of protection and men as the ones in control, who take action and do the protecting.
