Anita Sarkeesian’s fourth entry in her series Tropes Vs Women in Video Games has been released.
This video looks at characters who are just a female version of the original male video game character.
There are countless examples of this in video games and while the habit didn’t originate in video games, as Anita shows in her video below, video games have taken on the trope and still haven’t let it go. She describes it as the ‘Ms. Male Character Trope’  and also discusses what she calls ‘The Smurfette Principle’. This is an interesting entry in the series and is definitely worth a look.

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