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86: Strong Female Character
Your battle-hardened hosts gather in the Thunderdome to discuss Strong Female Characters in our media. What kinds of aesthetic and narrative features tend to mark someone as a “strong female character”? Which genres seem most invested in the presentation of a specific kind of sexualized female badass? How do we celebrate the presence of authentic strong female characters while keeping our critical goggles attuned to their more problematic incarnations?
Time Stamps:
1:39 - Your favorite pop culture dissidents engage in a little thoughtcrime and talk about Independence Day demonstrations of American military might (we recorded this episode on July 4th)
6:10 - Strong Female Characters
38:15 - What’s Your FREQ Outs: Super Mario Maker 2; Courtney Milan's entire oeuvre; Gato Roboto
Links Mentioned:
https://supermariomaker.nintendo.com/
http://www.courtneymilan.com/
https://gatoroboto.com/
What to the Slave is the 4th of July: https://www.thenation.com/article/what-slave-fourth-july-frederick-douglass/
Become a backer of this podcast by joining our community on Patreon! Find us at patreon.com/femfreq
Subscribe to our YouTube channel for more videos: http://bit.ly/2bDhQUX
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By Kat Spada, Anita Sarkeesian
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Your battle-hardened hosts gather in the Thunderdome to discuss Strong Female Characters in our media. What kinds of aesthetic and narrative features tend to mark someone as a “strong female character”? Which genres seem most invested in the presentation of a specific kind of sexualized female badass? How do we celebrate the presence of authentic strong female characters while keeping our critical goggles attuned to their more problematic incarnations?
Time Stamps:
1:39 - Your favorite pop culture dissidents engage in a little thoughtcrime and talk about Independence Day demonstrations of American military might (we recorded this episode on July 4th)
6:10 - Strong Female Characters
38:15 - What’s Your FREQ Outs: Super Mario Maker 2; Courtney Milan's entire oeuvre; Gato Roboto
Links Mentioned:
https://supermariomaker.nintendo.com/
http://www.courtneymilan.com/
https://gatoroboto.com/
What to the Slave is the 4th of July: https://www.thenation.com/article/what-slave-fourth-july-frederick-douglass/
Become a backer of this podcast by joining our community on Patreon! Find us at patreon.com/femfreq
Subscribe to our YouTube channel for more videos: http://bit.ly/2bDhQUX
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