super mario bros – Bad Reputation A feminist pop culture adventure Fri, 01 Apr 2011 08:00:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.6 37601771 Found Feminism: “Peach and Zelda Catch Up” on College Humor /2011/04/01/found-feminism-peach-and-zelda-catch-up-on-college-humor/ /2011/04/01/found-feminism-peach-and-zelda-catch-up-on-college-humor/#comments Fri, 01 Apr 2011 08:00:23 +0000 http://www.badreputation.org.uk/?p=3454 Oh dear. This is another “is it, isn’t it?” Found Feminism.

still from the film showing Princess Zelda (a white woman with long brown hair and elf ears, wearing a tiara) laughing

"I go for a walk and just head straight for the dark world!"

I’m actually quite interested in the muddy waters of “well, is it feminist?” because I think it helps us understand the wide representation of ideas over the project. Anyhow, on with your selected submission. I picked up this one whilst engaged in other nerdy pursuits and it’s a comedy sketch of a meeting between 80s-to-the-present computer game heroines Princess Zelda and Princess Peach talking animatedly (see what I did there?) about their lives, loves and future aspirations.

 

Clicky to watch: Zelda and Peach

I love the concept, especially the foregrounding of previously “invisible” women, the implied critique of “woman as quest object” and the way that the conversation renders passive kidnappees into active participants.

However, I am less keen on the inane “all girls love a bad guy” undercurrent. Perhaps it would have been better if rather than simply switching from one (stereo)type of man to another, the two of them had decided to go off and do something for themselves?

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