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Aidan Moher
Personal blog · aidanmoher.com/bloggamesculture
Aidan Moher's personal blog at aidanmoher.com covers games and culture. Since 2013, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “'We Have Always Fought': Challenging the 'Women, Cattle and Slaves' Narrative”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in a discussion of the 'Strong Female Characters' trope, where the commenter asks whether patriarchy or media portrayal explains fewer women in risky jobs. The post covers gender and media depictions of women.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Aidan Moher is a writer and the Hugo Award-winning founder of Astrolabe and A Dribble of Ink, and author of Fight, Magic, Items: The History of Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, and the Rise of Japanese RPGs in the West. His work has appeared in WIRED, Vulture, IGN, Washington Post, Electronic Gaming Mon
Most-linked posts?
- 'We Have Always Fought': Challenging the 'Women, Cattle and Slaves' Narrative4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2013-05-29
What Hacker News says?
> Edit: I wonder what is the feminist explanation for less women doing risky jobs? The patriarchy doesn't want women to be cannon fodder because they could start believing they can be aggressive and revolt against men? Or really just the media - if more female warrior movies were being made, women would be flocking to the military by the millions? http://aidanmoher.com/blog/featured-article/2013/05/we-have-...
Comment linking /blog/featured-article/2013/05/we-have-always-fought-challenging-the-women-cattle-and-slaves-narrative-by-kameron-hurley/
on “I hate Strong Female Characters”Submitted 'We Have Always Fought': Challenging the 'Women, Cattle and Slaves' Narrative as a story · 2 points
HN discussion- Mz · 2014-09-04
Submitted “We Have Always Fought': Challenging the 'Women, Cattle and Slaves' Narrative as a story · 1 points
HN discussion Submitted 'We Have Always Fought': Challenging the 'Women, Cattle and Slaves' Narrative as a story · 1 points
HN discussion