Beatrix Kondo

Beatrix Kondo is the final boss in a long quest dismantling gender issues in pop culture. She writes about K-dramas, anime, and East Asian media, specializing in ruining happy endings by pointing out red flags.

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Hinako, a young woman in a sailor-style school uniform, stands in an alley looking towards a stone stairway. A misshapen monstrous figure stands at the top of the stairs.

Silent Hill was always feminist, Part 4: Silent Hill f and the system that was always the monster

When the pattern becomes undeniable

Beatrix Kondo Mar 31, 2026

James Sunderland stands in front of a barred cell, facing away from it, holding a rifle. Inside the cell, Maria is sitting on a bed, looking towards James.

Silent Hill was always feminist, Part 3: Silent Hill 2, James Sunderland, and the murder no one calls murder

You cannot observe Silent Hill 2's villain from a safe distance

Beatrix Kondo Mar 24, 2026

Radha Mitchell as Rose in the 2006 Silent Hill movie. She is walking into the town; due to the extreme fog, only whiteness can be seen behind her

Silent Hill was always feminist, Part 2: Rose and the mother who won't reconcile

The 2006 Silent Hill film adapted the first game, but made its protagonist a mother, not a father

Beatrix Kondo Mar 18, 2026

A screenshot of Silent Hill depicting Harry Mason talking to a nurse in a gloomy hospital room

Silent Hill was always feminist, Part 1: The cult, the witch, the burning girl

When horror speaks in code

Beatrix Kondo Mar 10, 2026

Monika sitting at a desk, facing the screen, her hands folded under her chin. In the windows behind her, there's a starry sky filled with explosi

The monster was right

How Doki Doki Literature Club exposes dating sims as systems that punish female autonomy

Beatrix Kondo Feb 5, 2026

Where are the gaming PCs that don't look like alien spaceships?

Handheld gaming is better with a pillow

New Star Fox isn't hot, and I love that about him

Silent Hill was always feminist, Part 4: Silent Hill f and the system that was always the monster

Silent Hill was always feminist, Part 3: Silent Hill 2, James Sunderland, and the murder no one calls murder

Silent Hill was always feminist, Part 2: Rose and the mother who won't reconcile

Silent Hill was always feminist, Part 1: The cult, the witch, the burning girl

The monster was right