Anita Sarkeesian: Sexism and Stereotypes in Videogames

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgvYJ9Ei90Y

Anita Sarkeesian has made quite a name for herself online with her "Feminist Frequency" web series. She's probably best known for creating "Tropes vs. Women in Video Games", where Anita points out what she considers to be sexism within gaming. Do Anita's arguments hold up under scrutiny though?

SOURCES:

Female Characters in Videogames... debunking a myth
https://youtu.be/RXMoLCA3GQ4

Female Game Protagonists
http://victorsopinion.blogspot.com/p/...

Sexist games=sexist gamers? A longitudinal study on the relationship between video game use and sexist attitudes.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25...

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