Women have valid input on female game characters. Who knew?

This series by Anita Sarkeesian is a pointed view of a women on the inequality of genders in video games. The first episode explores the idea of the Damsel in distress and how it relates to current video gaming. The most interesting and first point that she makes in this video is that of Dinosaur Planet. This is literally a situation where a female protagonist was given a valuable heroic roll and then at the last minute sidelined into the damsel in distress. Crystal, has come to represent the theft of female competence in gaming due to her staff of power literary being taken and used by the new hero Fox McCloud to rescue her in what was originally her own game.

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