PBS was pretty slow to embrace the Internet, but in the last few years they’ve really gone full out. They’ve remixed Mr. Rogers, they’ve been doing some pretty compelling short documentaries about all sorts of topics. And their first dedicated webseries about video games, Game/Show, is… really interesting, actually. First of all, it’s hosted by James Warren of Kill Screen, who’s probably one of the better games journalists out there at the moment. Secondly, it makes a pretty compelling case that long after everybody reading this is dust, we’ll still be playing Mario games:
Did you dream of the day you'll get married and find true happiness by cooking, cleaning and serving your husbands every wish, as a little girl? Or maybe you were always taught that women are secondary citizens because they are definitely more incompetent then men...Yea, I don't think so. Unfortunately back in the day things were drastically different, and these ridiculous, inappropriate ads go to show how much our society has changed. It's kind of surreal looking at these images and knowing that this was accepted at some point.
