Re: [TML] Where should this take place?

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Where should this take place? Knapp (13 Jun 2015 08:26 UTC)

Re: [TML] Where should this take place? Ethan McKinney (13 Jun 2015 16:56 UTC)

Re: [TML] Where should this take place? Knapp (13 Jun 2015 17:35 UTC)

Re: [TML] Where should this take place? Kelly St. Clair (13 Jun 2015 18:18 UTC)

Re: [TML] Where should this take place? Richard Aiken (13 Jun 2015 18:37 UTC)

Re: [TML] Where should this take place? Knapp (13 Jun 2015 18:51 UTC)

Re: [TML] Where should this take place? Knapp (13 Jun 2015 18:53 UTC)

Re: [TML] Where should this take place? Richard Aiken (14 Jun 2015 06:36 UTC)

Re: [TML] Where should this take place? Knapp (14 Jun 2015 06:59 UTC)

Re: [TML] Where should this take place? Richard Aiken (14 Jun 2015 13:22 UTC)

Re: [TML] Where should this take place? Kelly St. Clair 13 Jun 2015 18:17 UTC

On 6/13/2015 10:35 AM, Knapp wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 6:56 PM, Ethan McKinney
> <xxxxxx@gmail.com <mailto:xxxxxx@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Women in Refrigerators
> What?

Shorthand/jargon, originating in the comic book industry/fandom (based
on one particularly ugly incident), for the unfortunately common trope
of female characters whose purpose/existence in the story is solely to
be killed or abused in order to motivate a heroic male protagonist.

(For one thing, it's almost vanishingly rare for it to be the other way
around.)

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