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Feminist Frequency: Interviews with Pop culture (in collaboration with media bitch)
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Tropes vs. Women
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A trope is a common pattern in a story or a recognizable feature of a character that conveys information to the public.
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A trope is a cliché from overuse.
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Unfortunately some of these Tropes often perpetuate offensive stereotypes.
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Episode # 2: Women in Refrigerator
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Who remembers Green Lantern # 54 in 1994 when Kyle Rayner discovers that his girlfriend Alex DeWitt was brutally murdered and stuffed into a refrigerator?
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Ok, I myself have never read Green Lantern, but Gail Simone fortunately, for she began to notice a pattern.
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Simone was tired of seeing how "super heroines or invalidated, raped or injured were put in the fridge."
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In 1999 she began an alarmingly long list of more than 90 female comics where superheroes lost their power, were brutally assaulted and brutally died prematurely,
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usually as a complication for the male hero to seek revenge or his epic journey in hand to work.
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They called this repeating pattern Women in Refrigerator, for obvious reasons.
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The list has grown continuously since its establishment.
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I'm going just a few examples.
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Spiderman's first love Gwen Stacy in 1973 of a building thrown by the Green Goblin.
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Spider Mans arrival and despite heroic rescue before they hit the ground, she dies either whiplash or shock.
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It is not surprising that this seemingly random death of an important character the fans enraged.
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The writers chose to kill an important female character whose sole purpose is Peter Parker, a complex and interesting storyline to give.
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When Batman was Stephanie Brown, who include The spoiler, a female Robin and Batgirl was brutally tortured to death with a drill by Batman's nemesis, The Black Mask.
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The highly sexualized images of Brown's torture were used throughout the various albums.
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Some fans were so incensed about the freezing of Batgirl that they refer to it as "torture porn".
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Another strong superhero who died a premature death was banal and Big Barda.
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She was the leader of the Female Furies and a member of the Birds of Prey and the Justice League.
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She was married to Mr. Miracle, and surprisingly physically stronger than her super-man.
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But despite all these forces was in her kitchen Big Barda shown no signs of a real fight.
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And of course her death was a good storyline for her husband.
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He struggled with the plan whether or not the Anti-Life Equation to use all sentient beings with whom he could dominate.
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Big Barda is just one of many female characters whose arbitrary and meaningless death was used to a more complex storyline for a male character creation.
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Comics are sometimes difficult to follow because characters slain, and be revived,
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or because there are several canons in different strips for the same character, so this is not for everyone but it is still rises often.
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Women in the Refrigerator is a way here to understand, through this complex world in general consider patterns to be drawn about the way women are treated in comics.
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When Simone's list released in 1999, there was immediate opposition from some comic fans who felt it was unfair female characters to choose from.
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This kind of criticism comes up every time we emphasize Tropes about women.
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In this case, fans criticized Women in Refrigerator by saying that male heroes also tortured and slain, so where do we worry about?
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The people who manage Web Women in Refrigerator replied by another trope to create named Man Devel-thaw (how I love fans!).
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Comic-book fanboy John Bartol explains:
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"If male heroes have changed or appear to die, they usually come back stronger, either in terms of power either in terms of personal development / relevance to the reader."
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Many male characters fit neatly into the Man thawed tropic. For example Superman, Hal Jordan as Green Lantern, Barry Allen as the Flash, Spiderman, Captain America, Hulk, Nick Fury, etc. etc.
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A typical example of how this difference is applicable even when characters are invalidated, it was Barbara Gordon as Batgirl in the spine by the Joker shot her father, Commissioner Gordon, to run through.
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She was permanently paralyzed and had a completely new identity for themselves in the creation.
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But when Batman's back was broken over the knee of super villain Bane, who recovered completely.
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Simone responded to this criticism by saying:
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"First, there have always been more male characters, so a handful of deaths makes little difference.
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Second, they died in a different way - they tended to die heroically, though fighting.
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While in many cases the super women just on the kitchen were found ".
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The authors of these cartoons treat similar situations quite different depending on the gender of the character. And the women seem to be worse off.
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Although the Women in Refrigerator tropic its origin in comic books can be applied to other media from pop culture, such as video games, television shows and movies.
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Libby and Shannon from Lost were slain for example, specific story of two male characters to push ahead.
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And what about all this portrayal of women from Heroes who lost their strength and could not control.
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In video games like God of War 1, Splinter Cell and Fable 2 is the story of a man who avenges the death of female relatives.
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