Anita Sarkeesian Quotes

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It's both possible, and even necessary, to simultaneously enjoy media while also being critical of its more problematic or pernicious aspects.

Anita Sarkeesian
Why are [...] female characters in combat roles wearing high-heels? With all the fighting, running and climbing these women have to do, dressing them in high-heels is clearly a decision rooted in sexualized aesthetic pleasure rather than believability.

Anita Sarkeesian
For this video I tried to get a glimpse of Batman's rear end, but it's as if his cape is a piece of high-tech Wayne-Industries equipment designed to cover up his butt at all costs.

Anita Sarkeesian
On the GamerGate Controversy:
Ethics in journalism is not what's happening, in any way.

Anita Sarkeesian
It gets worse and worse, it reinforces this idea of women as sexual objects, right; there's this idea of women as playthings for their amusement... [that] we are not meant to be treated with respect.

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Well maybe the princess shouldn't be a damsel and she could save herself.

Anita Sarkeesian
The mystical pregnancy is one of the tropes that I loathe the most because while other tropes represent women in stereotypical ways, this one hits us on a biological level.

Anita Sarkeesian
Since mobile, indie and retro inspired games are built on a legacy of inequality in the medium the new wave of 80s and 90s nostalgia has brought with it a resurrection of the worst of the old-school damsel in distress stereotypes. Indeed, many of these new titles essentially function as love letters to the trope as a way of paying homage to classic games of years gone by.

Anita Sarkeesian
We can trace the woman as reward trope all the way back the beginning of the medium itself as [...] upon successful completion of many arcade games players were rewarded with a related smooch of victory trope, so named for the kiss the hero received as a reward for rescuing a kidnapped princess. Sometimes the prize is blatant as with the standard hero reward in which the king will give his daughter to the hero. On other occasions it's taken a step further by employing the parallel of sex for victory or rescue sex trope.

Anita Sarkeesian
Princess Peach is in many ways the quintessential stock-character version of the damsel in distress.

Anita Sarkeesian
If you want to get to know a character, learn about their interests, goals or desires, their butt is probably not going to give you that information.

Anita Sarkeesian
When the media we create excludes girls and women, fails to depict them as leaders and innovators or treats them as little more than side-kicks, love interests and sex objects, is it any wonder that women are systematically excluded and under-represented in so many careers and leadership positions?

Anita Sarkeesian