https://broadlytextual.com/2025/02/28/representing-women-in-the-elder-scrolls-v-skyrim-the-politics-of-presence-part-1/ texts on tap for the public Wed, 29 Oct 2025 16:27:47 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://broadlytextual.com/2025/02/28/representing-women-in-the-elder-scrolls-v-skyrim-the-politics-of-presence-part-1/#comment-1136 Thu, 06 Mar 2025 13:44:06 +0000 https://broadlytextual.com/?p=3902#comment-1136 I seem to remember a lot of misogyny-tinted complaining about Lydia as well, people complaining about her voice lines and shouting her off of cliffs. It might be interesting to think about how the follower system enables non-diegetic gendered violence by setting up such an unequal power relation right from the beginning. That relation gets compounded with the marriage system too.

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