

Or, as my professor put it: “It’s like the Stepford wives meets Terminator.”Īs apt a description of the series as I’ve ever heard.


The Fallout franchise, being heavily influenced by the imagery and iconography of 50’s and 60’s Americana, has always been rather tongue-in-cheek with its presentation of traditional gender roles. Going in, something that interested me greatly was how the game would handle gender in terms of characters and their roles. Welp, Fallout 4 has been out for a few weeks now, and if Twitter, Tumblr, and Pornhub’s traffic drops are any indication, a good number of us have been foregoing our real lives in favor of traversing the radioactive ruins of Boston.
