Looking for games with strong female leads for my daughter (even just to watch as I play). Came across this link, but they're a bit age-inappropriate. Any suggestions from the community?
Looking for games with strong female leads for my daughter (even just to watch as I play). Came across this link, but they're a bit age-inappropriate. Any suggestions from the community?
We’re going to highlight fifteen games that we enjoy and happened to feature a female lead protagonist as well.
Edit: Daughter is only 5 so she's unlikely to play much but she watches me and as long as it's not too violent, it should be fine
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Why?
Edit: Thanks for the downvotes. I guess people don't like open-ended questions around here.
People in media are often displayed filling strongly defined roles based on their outward appearance and such, this reinforces biases and forms certain expectations, thus it's good to provide examples that show people in different roles.
E.g.:
gay men are often presented as flamboyant, always horny party people, but seldom as successful, serious business guys or as a caring partner for their loved one.
Or the classical trope of the damsel in distress, where the womans purpose is to be in danger so she can be rescued by a strong heroic male.
Or Men in general who are seldom portrait as emotional complex people.
And dads are always stupid and not as smart as the clever mum, who knows how to use a washing machine. Or, so every ad seems to reinforce.
That one's a particularly insidious one, because originally it was 'Is is the woman's job to do the housework'. And then women's liberation (sort of) happened, at which point the marketing pivoted to 'Only the woman can be trusted to do the housework'. It reinforces the exact same shit, but reframes it as empowerment, whilst throwing men under the bus in the process.
But then, we're all lemmy/kbin users so I'm pretty sure we all agree that advertising is the work of the devil.
Humans base a lot of their self worth and understanding on the way others label them. This is known as labeling theory.
Thus, it is important that we present stories that avoid stereotypes and allow people a more nuanced view of society.
Celeste. It’s a platformer with a nice story about anxiety and overcoming one’s fears.