Spotlight: Tropes vs. Women [Update]

I’ve been a fan of Anita Sarkeesian’s Feminist Frequency videos since her Toy Ads and Learning Gender video.  Now she has an  interesting and enlightening pair of videos that I hope will be part of a continued series. In “Tropes vs. Women” Sarkeesian covers tropes, which she defines as “a common pattern in a story or a recognizable attribute in a character that conveys information to the audience,” that are specifically applied to women.

I personally find her videos interesting because I am trying to write a story that I sometimes fear relies on too many tropes. Also, I think tropes have the ability to effect the real world in that they change how we look and label ourselves and other people. In a way, they change the narrative of life.

Check out both videos after the jump.

[Update: the series is set to contain six episodes, and they will all be posted here as they are released.]