Editor's blog: I am sexist (Eurogamer.net)

[Gormy Cuss]

2. The Dudley Do-Right cartoons used this device frequently enough to establish it as a trope

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but the woman (Nell) was ALWAYS rescued before the train hit and sometimes Do-Right and others were also tied to train tracks.
Converting this to a way of killing a woman character is the difference in gaming. As the link author points out, the game also doesn't reward this behavior if a man is hogtied to the tracks.


Oh look -- he describes male privilege to a T here:

... And when you have an entrenched attitude that you may not fully recognise and you are confronted by arguments that go to the core of that attitude, it's easy to get upset, because it feels like a personal attack. Your natural response is to try to change the subject, attack the speaker or frame the argument differently, rather than engaging with the thing you can't comprehend at the heart of the original point.