If it had been structured like your average Borderlands 2 plot point - maybe. God knows that series treats casual murder of hundreds upon thousands of pseudo-innocent humans, creatures and androids like some casual and light-hearted fun. 
It isn't, though. This more or less feeds into the "gamer rage" problem Jim's mentioned in his video, in that we've turned depictions of violence into such an acceptable form of expression - and Anita has as well, by the looks of it, being a gamer herself - that we're okay with writing down fantasy murder sprees that would make even H.H. Holmes do a double-take and say "Whoa, son. Simmer down a little, why don'tcha?"
To me, though, this is more a generational issue than a cultural one. We've been exposed to horror movies and violent games; we're the ones who were targeted when the nineties started to bring forth its Darker and Edgier superheroes, sociopathic antiheroes get all the love and even their own video game (i.e. Deadpool) and we celebrate wanton sociopathy because it's just that zany and opposed to our boring, productive, safe lives (i.e. Saints Row The Third and onwards).
I don't think her little fanfic ties into her being a researcher into Women's Studies and Feminism in general. It just happens to be a little ultraviolent ditty that's been put together by someone who maybe excessively values TVTropes as research material.
I mean, it's a great casual resource and us casual viewers won't mind her using it, but the thing is, TVTropes doesn't have a chance in Hell of being considered academically noteworthy, unlike Wikipedia. I'm sure some serious literary scholars plunked down a few thousands words under the guise of a Troper alias - but the acceptance just isn't there. Insofar, it's just a fun tool to go "Oh, hey; ever noticed how there's always this or that reoccurring motif in our favourite cultural productions?"
TVTropes' closest literary noteworthy cousin probably is anything from the French Structuralist school of literary analysis. Take a class on Ferdinand de Saussure or Julien Greimas and you'll realize the Tropes are treading old ground to mine old favourites and Pop Culture standbys for increased relevancy - which is admirable but difficult to bring forward in an academic context.
It isn't, though. This more or less feeds into the "gamer rage" problem Jim's mentioned in his video, in that we've turned depictions of violence into such an acceptable form of expression - and Anita has as well, by the looks of it, being a gamer herself - that we're okay with writing down fantasy murder sprees that would make even H.H. Holmes do a double-take and say "Whoa, son. Simmer down a little, why don'tcha?"
To me, though, this is more a generational issue than a cultural one. We've been exposed to horror movies and violent games; we're the ones who were targeted when the nineties started to bring forth its Darker and Edgier superheroes, sociopathic antiheroes get all the love and even their own video game (i.e. Deadpool) and we celebrate wanton sociopathy because it's just that zany and opposed to our boring, productive, safe lives (i.e. Saints Row The Third and onwards).
I don't think her little fanfic ties into her being a researcher into Women's Studies and Feminism in general. It just happens to be a little ultraviolent ditty that's been put together by someone who maybe excessively values TVTropes as research material.
I mean, it's a great casual resource and us casual viewers won't mind her using it, but the thing is, TVTropes doesn't have a chance in Hell of being considered academically noteworthy, unlike Wikipedia. I'm sure some serious literary scholars plunked down a few thousands words under the guise of a Troper alias - but the acceptance just isn't there. Insofar, it's just a fun tool to go "Oh, hey; ever noticed how there's always this or that reoccurring motif in our favourite cultural productions?"
TVTropes' closest literary noteworthy cousin probably is anything from the French Structuralist school of literary analysis. Take a class on Ferdinand de Saussure or Julien Greimas and you'll realize the Tropes are treading old ground to mine old favourites and Pop Culture standbys for increased relevancy - which is admirable but difficult to bring forward in an academic context.
