{"id":1089,"date":"2015-04-02T10:31:53","date_gmt":"2015-04-02T14:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/?p=1089"},"modified":"2015-04-02T10:31:53","modified_gmt":"2015-04-02T14:31:53","slug":"tlf-feminist-frequencys-positive-female-characters-in-video-games-the-scythian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/2015\/04\/02\/tlf-feminist-frequencys-positive-female-characters-in-video-games-the-scythian\/","title":{"rendered":"TLF: Feminist Frequency&#8217;s Positive Female Characters in Video Games, &#8220;The Scythian&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So yesterday, Anita Sarkeesian and Feminist Frequency released a new video in a new series on videogames focused on positive depictions of women in games. It seems that these will be much shorter than those found in <em>Tropes vs. Women in Video Games<\/em>, and will focus specifically on a single character, rather than a laundry-list format.<\/p>\n<p>On the one hand, this suggests that Sarkeesian is listening to some of her (rational) critics, who dislike the laundry-list format. And I think this is a good move &#8211; it allows for more focus, more nuance, and avoids the problem of rapid-fire lists. <a href=\"http:\/\/thelearnedfangirl.com\/2015\/04\/feminist-frequencys-positive-female-characters-in-video-games-the-scythian\/\" target=\"_blank\">My write-up for TLF is here<\/a> (includes links to video and transcript).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So yesterday, Anita Sarkeesian and Feminist Frequency released a new video in a new series on videogames focused on positive depictions of women in games. It seems that these will be much shorter than those found in Tropes vs. Women &#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/2015\/04\/02\/tlf-feminist-frequencys-positive-female-characters-in-video-games-the-scythian\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1710,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9130,104,9147,9136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-criticism","category-gender","category-tlf","category-videogames"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6XN03-hz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1710"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}