Season 2 Episode
Tropes vs. Women in Video Games - Season 2 Episode 8 The Lady Sidekick
2.80 48 minutes This episode examines how female sidekicks and companions in games are often designed to function as glorified gatekeepers, helpless burdens, and ego boosters, a pattern that works to reinforce oppressive notions about women as the ones in need of protection and men as the ones in control, who take action and do the protecting.
