I love your idea that "rescuing the princess" is just another weekend game for Mario. It puts a lovely spin on a tired trope, and actually makes much more sense.
I think much of the resistance to the Damsel in Distress storyline stems from the fact that it simplifies the usually female captive to an object to be won and the usually male rescuer to one who is motivated to good deeds by the acquisition of a person. The heroism of the rescue for rescuing's sake and the horror of stolen agency (e.g., confinement) are nuances often lost in the telling. And actually, it's the difference between Nice Guy and Good Guy that's at the crux of the #YesAllWomen/#NotAllMen discussion. Aaaaand, you probably get all of that already, and I'm just repeating things you already know. But the face-to-face conversations I've been having as a result of the shootings seem to include these points over and over again with a lot of people not quite understanding what I'm saying. So sorry for the redundancy.
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Date: 2014-05-28 10:48 pm (UTC)I think much of the resistance to the Damsel in Distress storyline stems from the fact that it simplifies the usually female captive to an object to be won and the usually male rescuer to one who is motivated to good deeds by the acquisition of a person. The heroism of the rescue for rescuing's sake and the horror of stolen agency (e.g., confinement) are nuances often lost in the telling. And actually, it's the difference between Nice Guy and Good Guy that's at the crux of the #YesAllWomen/#NotAllMen discussion. Aaaaand, you probably get all of that already, and I'm just repeating things you already know. But the face-to-face conversations I've been having as a result of the shootings seem to include these points over and over again with a lot of people not quite understanding what I'm saying. So sorry for the redundancy.