{"id":60034,"date":"2014-01-04T09:00:24","date_gmt":"2014-01-04T14:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=60034"},"modified":"2014-01-04T14:36:20","modified_gmt":"2014-01-04T19:36:20","slug":"pac-man-and-mr-pac-man-flipping-the-script","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2014\/01\/04\/pac-man-and-mr-pac-man-flipping-the-script\/","title":{"rendered":"Pac-Man and Mr. Pac-Man: Flipping the Script"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anita Sarkeesian is back with a new installment in her feminist analysis of video games. This one is a 25 minute discussion of the Ms. Male Character Trope<\/a>, the phenomenon in which video games spice up their characters by including a female modeled off of the original male character. \u00a0It’s a good example of the way in which males are centered, while females, if included at all, are seen as a non-normative kind of human, animal, or thing.<\/p>\n

She starts with the classic example of Pac-Man and Mrs. Pac-Man, observing that only Mrs. is marked with symbols of femininity; Pac-Man, who’s not even called Mr.<\/em> Pac-Man, has no markers at all. \u00a0This is typical. \u00a0This is how maleness is made simultaneously invisible and front-and-center, while femaleness is othered. \u00a0Like this<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"Pacman<\/a><\/p>\n

A fan sent her an example of what a reverse world would look like, where women were the default and men were marked and othered. \u00a0Awesome:<\/p>\n

\"2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Here’s the whole video:<\/p>\n

<\/object><\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Anita Sarkeesian is back with a new installment in her feminist analysis of video games. This one is a 25 minute discussion of the Ms. Male Character Trope, the phenomenon in which video games spice up their characters by including a female modeled off of the original male character. \u00a0It’s a good example of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":60923,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15,23384,55,2096,2087,868,1711,293,23622],"class_list":["post-60034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-culture","tag-social-construction-discourselanguage","tag-gender","tag-gender-femininity","tag-gender-masculinity","tag-power","tag-toysgames","tag-social-construction","tag-social-construction-symbols"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2014\/01\/13.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60034"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60039,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60034\/revisions\/60039"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}