Tropes vs. Men in Videogames

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(Here's a bit of semi-satire for you all.) Representations of women in media and their effects in society seems to be a cool thing to write about when discussing popular culture. With academics writing lengthy articles, endless video commentaries and Anita Sarkeseean's popular series Tropes vs. Women inVideogames taking the recent spotlight, it seems everyone, including my colleagues over at Pop Trends  Otaku K and Random V, are writing about representations of women in media. I wanted to take a different approach to this topic and explore the other gender. Let's call this a study on masculinism. Now, it would be easy enough to take the Sarkeesian approach and say "males are misrepresented" and leave it at that, but instead let us go a step further and discuss how these representations of men affects both men and women.