Dragon Age is sexist

Anita Sarkeesian repeatedly uses Dragon Age as an example of games that objectify and marginalise women.

Oh.

Chauvinist Pigs

Chauvinist Pigs

Here’s my awesome all-female squad, Team Bechdel. Each of them has a respected and important job, a unique rich personality, distinct physical appearance, dress sense, and individual skill set. Each has their own sexual preferences and makes their own sexual/romantic choices. When they have finished killing endless legions of anonymous male soldiers to vanquish the evil male antagonist Corypheus, they head back to the headquarters at Skyhold and report to their superiors, Leliana and Josephine, before paying their respects to the late religious leader, the Revered Mother, Divine Justinia. All this despite the fact that only 6 of the 9 writers of Dragon Age: Inquisition are female!

Blessings of Andraste upon you.

(Andraste: the Prophet of the dominant, exclusively female-controlled religion in Dragon Age. Andraste is a woman.)

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