yt: Women in Refrigerators is a trope identified by comic book fan (and now comic book writer) Gail Simone because she was sick of seeing "superheroines who have been either depowered, raped, or cut up and stuck in the refrigerator [for the benefit of male characters' development]."
longdesays...

What!?!?! They killed off big barda? That was a quality character.

I've heard this theory, but there have been lot's of (b & c-list) male characters treated similarly. Is it really so much more egregious with female characters?

Great sift.

budzossays...

Feminists are some of the most boring people on the planet, next to Christians and sports fans. They remind me of the Eddie Izzard joke about the boring kid who puts everything into Venn diagrams. Feminists seem to live their life obsessed with notching down hash marks in a two-column M/F scoresheet.

Sepacoresays...

Seems a bit disingenuous. Pointing out a few random occurrences while using the terms 'trends' and 'a lot' while not putting forward the statistical results of their study to provide structure to the claims made and undefined/vague values used is a poor way to get your point across.

She states that they get comments like mine above or even outright disputes to the claims "whenever they point out tropes about women specifically". Well, rather than presenting a one-sided case by throwing out a few examples as if they alone will justify the points made, maybe try offering some actual statistics next time to help prevent such responses.

Empowering women is one of the critical necessities I feel is important for stabilizing the idea of wider spread of human rights, but this shit is just dribble lacking substance.

For those who want a bit more info,

The list of atrocities to women in comic books (111 in total)
http://www.unheardtaunts.com/wir/women.html

DC and Marvel stats of 'Women In Comics Statistics' (the involvement of women in creating comics. The increasing trend should help to balance-out any other 'trends', relative to stats and target audiences)
http://thanley.wordpress.com/category/women-in-comics-statistics/

Not a great deal of stats out there that I found, no wander she didn't give any study results, no one does any on this subject lol.
As for actual gender and age audiences, this was the best i found.
http://comicsworthreading.com/2007/05/10/superhero-comic-reader-stats/

Upvoting because her slightly lazy left (on your right) eye-lid was tripping me out. Is it me or is there a fractional difference? 1 E.g. @ 5.38 to 5:51

Sagemindsays...

A Story arc needs motivation.
What better way than to motivate a hero than to have something horrible happen to someone he loves or in an unnatural and gruesome way. That's what get a guy gets angry. That's the motivator. The artist looks for the event that makes themelves the most angry, disturbed or what ever to further the story arc.

You can't have something boring and un-emotional happen and expect it to evoke emotion and cause rifts in the plot line.

The fact is, most comic book artists happen to be male, they relate to male characters the most so there are more male characters to females. Every character after the main hero is a secondary character.
Most, if not all, heroes tend to be straight-males. Therefor the damsel in question will almost always be female.

Solution: More female comic book artists. (I guess)
Or gay or whatever. (but not lesbian because her vise will still end up being another female)

oOPonyOosays...

Upvoting because her slightly lazy left (on your right) eye-lid was tripping me out. Is it me or is there a fractional difference? 1 E.g. @ 5.38 to 5:51

- She raises her left eybrow for that statement, i think .

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