After watching part 1 of FeministFrequency's Damsel in Distress video, I decided to continue on and watch part 2 as well. First of all I'd just like to say that I really enjoyed watching both of these videos. She spoke in a clear way that was easy to follow and understand. Another thing I really appreciated about her videos was that she included clips from every single game she mentioned. I can't imagine that that was an easy task to gather all of those clips, but being a visual person myself, I found it very helpful to see what she was talking about first hand.
Being a non-gamer, I really appreciated her sort of historical lesson at the beginning of her first video. Yes I'm aware of the whole "damsel in distress" trope but it's not something I had ever given much thought to before watching this video so I guess I had always assumed that this particular trope began with Disney's Snow White, or Cinderella, etc. I didn't realize that this whole idea of the "damsel in distress" trope began much earlier.
I really liked her argument about violence against women in part 2 of her Damsel in Distress video. Although I don't think that video game developers are encouraging violence against women I do agree with her argument that it is something that needs to be addressed and talked about, especially in video games and films.
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