Sentences with phrase «sexist trope»

In the past decade this has led to shifts in the meta - narratives of games, away from the sexist trope of saving the princess, and towards more complex ideas of redemption, guilt and self - discovery.

Add to that another old sexist trope: If a man cheats on you, it's your fault.

The company didn't invent misogyny, but its Echo line of products and services, which make use of the personal assistant Alexa, played to sexist tropes before the company stepped in to help remedy matters.

Just as the rise of third - wave feminism tries to crush the idea that a woman's worth comes only from her ability to attract men, why do sugar babies appear to be running backwards towards old, sexist tropes?

Walker here recycles and subverts racist and sexist tropes, digging them up from the recesses of culture.

That means users can't hide their slurs, epithets, and racist or sexist tropes in their bio without a penalty.

Twitter will also permanently suspend accounts where profile information includes violent threats and racist or sexist tropes, that incite fear, or reduce people to less than human terms.

Not exact matches

Pleasingly, this also helps to unseat the ridiculous (and sexist) notion of the «friend zone», a common trope in advice aimed at men, according to which the world is full of lovelorn males cruelly relegated to friend status by the women they desire.

Yet the success of Muylaert's films, which reject both the populist tropes of vapid entertainment and the impenetrability of art cinema, has been met with a series of sexist episodes played out in social media and a widespread belittlement of her authorial function.

In reflection, her argument is actually very convincing, highlighting how the application of the trope, even done so humorously, should be considered as sexist parody, rather than parody of sexism.