{"id":27036,"date":"2014-08-27T14:18:47","date_gmt":"2014-08-27T14:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/how-games-lazy-storytelling-uses-rape-and\/"},"modified":"2014-08-27T14:18:47","modified_gmt":"2014-08-27T14:18:47","slug":"how-games-lazy-storytelling-uses-rape-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/how-games-lazy-storytelling-uses-rape-and\/","title":{"rendered":"How games&#8217; lazy storytelling uses rape and violence against women as wallpaper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mostlysignssomeportents.tumblr.com\/post\/95874946875\/how-games-lazy-storytelling-uses-rape-and-violence\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">mostlysignssomeportents<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/66.media.tumblr.com\/659b8e03c10d6b0e01be13b610aaf467\/tumblr_inline_nay059v5Is1rkw4x1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Anna Sarkeesian\u2019s brilliant, crowdfunded <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC7Edgk9RxP7Fm7vjQ1d-cDA\">Tropes vs Women in Video Games <\/a> web-series (<a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/?s=Sarkeesian\">previously<\/a>) has a new episode, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5i_RPr9DwMA\">Women as Background Decoration: Part 2<\/a> [TW: rape, sexual violence, violence], which expertly dissects the use of violence against women, especially sexual violence as a lazy means of establishing skimpy motivations for player characters to hunt down the baddies. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2014\/08\/26\/how-games-lazy-storytelling.html\"><strong>Read more\u2026<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>mostlysignssomeportents: Anna Sarkeesian\u2019s brilliant, crowdfunded Tropes vs Women in Video Games web-series (previously) has a new episode, Women as Background Decoration: Part 2 [TW: rape, sexual violence, violence], which expertly dissects the use of violence against women, especially sexual violence as a lazy means of establishing skimpy motivations for player characters to hunt down the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-724","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}