Feminist Frequency website
“The gruesome death of women for shock value is especially prevalent in modern gaming”
“The Damsel in Distress predates the invention of video games by several thousand years”
Levelling up article
“If you do not see yourself on Netflix, on Instagram, in games, in forums, where are you?”
“As a girl growing up playing games I was always like, why do I have to play as a boy?”
Laura Mulvey’s academic paper
“There is pleasure in being looked at”
“The cinema has structures of fascination strong enough to allow temporary loss of ego while simultaneously reinforcing the ego”
Diversity Matters article
“Most games feature white protagonists”
“Persons who genuinely see themselves as good people end up justifying turning a blind eye to overt racism and violence”