Tropes vs. Women in Video Games — Season 1, Episode 10: Women as Reward – Special DLC Mini-Episode

Episode synopsis

This totally free supplemental add-on content pack for our Women as Reward video examines how women’s bodies are used not just as a reward for in-game actions but also, via paid downloadable content, as a reward for spending actual money. We then address the most common defense of this kind of objectification and commodification of women’s bodies: the argument that “sex sells.” This video is intended as a supplement to our Women as Reward video, which we recommend watching first.

About Tropes vs. Women in Video Games

Tropes vs. Women in Video Games aims to examine limiting, sexist patterns associated with female representations in games, and to illuminate how these patterns reinforce and perpetuate harmful attitudes about women in our culture.

More episodes from Season 1

• E1Damsel in Distress (Part 1)
• E2Damsel in Distress (Part 2)
• E3Damsel in Distress (Part 3)
• E4Ms. Male Character
• E5Women as Background Decoration (Part 1)
• E6Women as Background Decoration (Part 2)
• E7The Scythian – Positive Female Characters in Video Games
• E8Jade - Positive Female Characters in Video Games
• E9Women as Reward