The Lady Sidekick
Tropes vs. Women in Video Games - Season 2

The Lady Sidekick ()

Rating

Available  to rent or buy

DESCRIPTION

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.