Imagine a beat up old chevy with a trunk full of greasy hot dogs on a bumpy dirt road. But with more lens flare.

Yeah, that kind of character treatment isn't exclusive to women. It's also how gay people are treated, or foreigners, or anyone that isn't an easily accessible, "default" person.

Then I don't really know. Nobody's trying to say what the only right way to tell stories is, just what kind of things has a negative impact on the industry overall and why. The damsel trope has a negative impact because it's a lazy way of using a woman as an impotent and personality bereft MacGuffin, contributing to…

It doesn't matter! I don't care if she was reading Valerie Solana's SCUM manifest over and over in every single one of her videos and added "because of video games" at the end, the kind of reactions she's getting are absolutely insane and speak volumes more about the internet and gamer culture than any other points…

Are you asking what you could do in a game that had to have a damsel-in-distress to make the trope less of an issue? Or how the rest of the game industry would need to look for the trope not to be a problem any more?

A single instance of something does not a trope make. A man rescuing a woman is not inherently sexist, it's that it happens so very often and with so very little variation and always with the same gender roles that's the problem. Like she says in the video, the existence of the damsel-in-distress trope doesn't make a…

I haven't seen a single aspect of her that hasn't received some kind of criticism, everything from her clothes, to her tone of voice, to her scene transitions, to her old thesis, etc. It's kind of to be expected that whatever she does, someone will find some kind of fault with it. But now she's doing exactly what the…

A lot of people ask this, and I just can't help but wonder: what did you expect? Fireworks? CGI dick fights? Celebrity guest stars? What? She asked for $6k and got 26 times that cause of the publicity from the backlash against her, did you expect her to suddenly turn the project into a blockbuster?

Dude, it's a pretty tall order to tell someone to make a commercially viable, popular game just cause they got their hands on a minimal budget. Especially considering that money was specifically gifted through her kickstarter for the express purpose of creating these videos.

And Rebochan mentioned a few good games with realistic female protagonists that aren't oversexualized, and you told him/her to shut the fuck up. I honestly have no idea what point you're trying to make if you think the existence of, for example, the Metroid Prime series is irrelevant to your argument.

I can't provide alternate reasons because I don't think something as vague and general as "reasons for not wearing a condom" can be summed up in a few points and still be useful to anyone.

So these root causes, they're no doubt the result of in-depth, non-ambiguous, global studies into male sexuality, psychology and culture, yes? They're not just a bunch of things you made up on the spot just now?

Except we haven't had a Todd Akin revolution going on for the past 500 years

If one wants people in authority to stop thinking the Sun orbits the Earth, presenting evidence to the contrary will probably have a bigger effect than pointing and laughing. See: Copernican Revolution.