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fandomsecrets2013-02-24 03:21 pm
case) wrote in fandomsecrets2013-02-24 03:21 pm
[ SECRET POST #2245
⌈ Secret Post #2245 ⌋
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Secrets Left to Post: 04 pages, 098 secrets from Secret Submission Post #321.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 2 3 4 - come on, troll with a little more subtlety ].
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(Anonymous) 2013-02-25 12:44 am (UTC)(link)■ Remixing video game stock footage for a blog that praises the game Portal for being about "non violent conflict resolution" and criticizes "you hardly see" Chell.
■ Complaining about The Powerpuff Girls' use of the Straw Feminist trope and forgetting the character was revealed to not be a feminist at all (on top of the irony of her caring about appearance). And applying real life problems to things in episode that don't even apply to those problems.
■ Lumping Y: The Last Man and the Daughters of Amazon therein as example of "crazy man hating Straw Feminists without any realistic feminists showing up" when not only do calmer more grounded feminists appear but Brian K. Vaughan explicitly created the characters as examples of one type of feminist school of thought and other characters as opposing ones.
■ Dismissing Clarice Starling from Silence of the Lambs because she's overshadowed in the cultural memory of the film by a male character (Hannibal) even though Clarice fits her previously established criteria; she has the most screen time in the film, the story arc revolves around her, we see her make decisions and she is the character that the viewer identifies with in a role that earned Jodie Foster her second Oscar along with Anthony Hopkins for his Hannibal Lecter role. It's virtually impossible to describe the plot in a way that makes Hannibal seem anything like the lead character, but Sarkeesian says the exact opposite of this.
■ She lists Clementine from Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind as a Manic Pixie Dream Girl, even though she is a character who was an outright subversion of this trope who actually says to her romantic foil: "I'm not a concept. Too many guys think I'm a concept or I complete them or I'm going to make them alive, but I'm just a fucked up girl who is looking for my own peace of mind. Don't assign me yours."
■ Under research failure specifically, this post from another feminist blog argues that understanding the history of certain phrases in the song reveals that "Baby It's Cold Outside" is not actually about date rape. To be fair to Sarkeesian, though, this is one where quite a lot of people don't do the research.
■ Another egregious example is the video game Bayonetta. Even leaving aside the fact that the character can easily be interpreted as a satire of the adolescence pandering she accuses her to be (which even at worst, it would suffer the Truffaut Was Right problem. At worst), she gave away many hints that she actually didn't play the game much, if at all. The biggest one is when she says Bayonetta is a single mother, something that is just not true. Bayonetta does play the Action Mom trope, but only metaphorically (Sarkeesian portrays it in the video as if she is a literal single mom). And even that is a stretch considering the girl she takes care of is HERSELF from the past. Made even worse by saying, even stressing, that that's her one and only positive character trait. To be fair, she later rectified and edited the video removing the parts in which she talks about the game itself and left only her complains about the marketing campaign in Japan, which were much more legitimate.
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(Anonymous) 2013-02-25 12:51 am (UTC)(link)Or the Femme Fatale in Power Puff Girls as an example of a "straw feminist" even though that was the whole point of her character and the ending of the episode goes out of its way to say that's not what feminism is really about and contrasts her with feminists like Susan B. Anthony.