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Feminist Frequency and bitch media
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Tropes vs. Women
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A trope is a common pattern in a story
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or a recognizable attribute in a character
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that conveys information to the audience.
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A trope becomes a cliche when it's overused.
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Sadly, some of these tropes often perpetuate offensive stereotypes.
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#3 Smurfette Principle
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What do Inception, the Transformers,
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and the Muppets all have in common?
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They all suffer from a trope called
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the Smurfette Principle.
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As defined by TVTropes:
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"The Smurfette Principle is the tendency for works of fiction"
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"to have only exactly one female amongst an"
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"ensemble of male characters, in spite of the fact that"
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"roughly half of the human race is female."
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"Unless a show is purposefully aimed at a female viewing audience,"
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"the main characters will tend to be disproportionately male." - TV Tropes
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In 1991 Katha Pollitt, a feminist essayist
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wrote an article for the NY Times
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because she was disturbed by the lack of
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substantive female characters
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for her young daughter to watch.
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She found that most of the programming
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aimed at young people
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had a majority of male characters,
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with just one female included in the group,
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she called this The Smurfette Principle.
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You’ve probably guessed by now
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that this trope was named after
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the only female smurf in all of Smurfville.
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Once upon a time,
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the Smurfs were an hormonious
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all-dude miniature civilization comprised entirely
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of kind good natured little blue dudes
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living out their cooperative-dude existence
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somewhere deep in their dude forest utopia.
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We’ve got Lazy, Grouchy, Jokey,
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Brainy, Baby, and Papa Smurf
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and all their Smurf buddies
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living out their smurfy existence
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free from any of those meddling, divisive,
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controlling, manipulative, mean women folk.
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But one day the evil wizard Gargamel
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decided on a devilish plan to sabotage smurfdom.
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And how will he do that?
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yes that’s right, by creating a female smurf!
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“That’s it, I’ll get them through their hearts,”
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“I will send them a Smurfette!”
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