Tropes vs. Women in Video Games — Season 1, Episode 9: Women as Reward
Documentary, Talk • 30 min • 2 seasons, 18 episodes • ★ 2.8/10
Episode synopsis
Content Warning: This educational episode contains game footage of a graphic sexual nature. This episode explores the numerous ways in which the Women as Reward trope manifests in video games. The trope occurs when women or women’s bodies are employed as rewards for player actions, a pattern which frames female bodies and sexuality as collectible or consumable and positions women as status symbols designed to validate the masculinity of presumed straight male players. We then discuss how this trope both reflects and reinforces the pervasive, socially constructed mentality of male entitlement that operates in the background of our culture.
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
- E10Women as Reward – Special DLC Mini-Episode