{"id":1120,"date":"2015-06-02T13:46:31","date_gmt":"2015-06-02T17:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/?p=1120"},"modified":"2015-06-02T13:46:31","modified_gmt":"2015-06-02T17:46:31","slug":"tlf-jade-for-beauty-positive-female-characters-in-video-games-ep-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/2015\/06\/02\/tlf-jade-for-beauty-positive-female-characters-in-video-games-ep-2\/","title":{"rendered":"TLF: &#8220;Jade for Beauty: Positive Female Characters in Video Games,&#8221; ep. 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My <a href=\"http:\/\/thelearnedfangirl.com\/2015\/06\/jade-for-beauty-feminist-frequencys-positive-female-characters-in-video-games-jade-beyond-good-evil\/\" target=\"_blank\">TLF review of Anita Sarkeesian&#8217;s second video in the <em>Positive Female Characters in Video Games<\/em> series (on Jade from <em>Beyond Good &amp; Evil<\/em>)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A lot of my frustrations with this episode are less to do with the specifics about what Sarkeesian says than a lot of the assumptions and implications of what she says. Overall, I actually think her video is a decent review of why she likes the game, which is actually pretty informative (and made me consider playing the game). However, there are a lot of &#8220;feminist pitfalls&#8221; to it that I find problematic (as a fairly militant feminist myself), such as the assumption that any game with violence subscribes to hegemonic male militarism (although I don&#8217;t think she uses that exact phrase).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My TLF review of Anita Sarkeesian&#8217;s second video in the Positive Female Characters in Video Games series (on Jade from Beyond Good &amp; Evil). A lot of my frustrations with this episode are less to do with the specifics about &#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/2015\/06\/02\/tlf-jade-for-beauty-positive-female-characters-in-video-games-ep-2\/\">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":[9130,104,9154,9147,9136,9141],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-criticism","category-gender","category-social-justice","category-tlf","category-videogames","category-violence"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6XN03-i4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120","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=1120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}