Dixie Kong's Gender Trouble | A Feminist View on Donkey Kong Country

Join us as we take a trip down to Donkey Kong Country and explore the themes and narratives of the original SNES trilogy. How do they escalate, build upon each other and finally culminate in Dixie Kong's Double Trouble? What are the true social problems at the heart of Kong society? Let's find out!

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00:00 Introduction
09:20 The Trials of Donkey & Diddy
20:26 Gender in Donkey Kong Country
38:07 The Tone of Donkey Kong Country 3
47:53 Conclusions and a Conclusion
58:26 Patreon

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Bonus meme:
Kiddy Kong is genuinely rad. Like he is a really fun character to play as and the balance he provides in Donkey Kong Country 3 is honestly amazing. It's kind of sad how a lot of us have just been focusing so hard on the way he looks that all of the good he does has been completely overshadowed by hate. We have probably watched every single Donkey Kong Country based video there is to be found, and the amount of times we have seen people claim that they just kill him first chance they get so they don't have to play as him is honestly ridiculous. One of the reasons cited is because of how much slower than Dixie Kong he is, but that is actually not really quite true at all – in reality Kiddy and Dixie have the exact same running speed. But I can see why someone would miss that when they even go out of their way to avoid playing as him. People are actually so mad about this boy that they make stuff up based on what he looks like – he is chunky so therefore he must be a slow runner. Gosh, I dunno. Dixie Kong's Double Trouble changes the focus a bit, makes the characters move at similar speeds and instead focuses on their specific abilities as differentiating factors, and I actually think it is better for it. Maybe we should just be a bit nicer about Kiddy Kong and not be freaking babies about it. Kiddy Kong is good, and you should all just stop being mean.