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* [[women in refrigerators]] - the senseless and graphic death, mutilation, torture, or abuse of female characters to dramatize a plot point, show that the villain is Really Villainous, or free up the male lead for a new sexy romance by getting rid of the current love interest who has become boring to the male audience or male writers and simultaneously titillating them with offensively graphic and gory sexualized violence | * [[women in refrigerators]] - the senseless and graphic death, mutilation, torture, or abuse of female characters to dramatize a plot point, show that the villain is Really Villainous, or free up the male lead for a new sexy romance by getting rid of the current love interest who has become boring to the male audience or male writers and simultaneously titillating them with offensively graphic and gory sexualized violence; see also [[women die so men can take revenge]] | ||
* [[death by childbirth]] - of course, because women are seen largely as childbearers and [[mother]]s, death by childbirth is a preoccupation of writers, even when the death is wholly unrealistic (e.g., ''[[Star Wars Episode 1]]'') | * [[death by childbirth]] - of course, because women are seen largely as childbearers and [[mother]]s, death by childbirth is a preoccupation of writers, even when the death is wholly unrealistic (e.g., ''[[Star Wars Episode 1]]''; ''[[Switch (film)|Switch]]'') | ||
* [[women die so men can take revenge]] | * [[women die so men can take revenge]] | ||
* [[death by coughing]] - women in historical epics who cough inevitably have "consumption" and will die attractively; see, e.g., some large percentage of [[opera]]s | * [[death by coughing]] - women in historical epics who cough inevitably have "consumption" and will die attractively; see, e.g., some large percentage of [[opera]]s | ||
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Latest revision as of 14:31, 15 April 2008
Women character deaths exemplify the problems with female characters generally: They are often not fleshed out as real people; as stand-ins for collections of stereotypes, archetypes, and plot functions, their deaths are also treated as symbols and plot functions.
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- women in refrigerators - the senseless and graphic death, mutilation, torture, or abuse of female characters to dramatize a plot point, show that the villain is Really Villainous, or free up the male lead for a new sexy romance by getting rid of the current love interest who has become boring to the male audience or male writers and simultaneously titillating them with offensively graphic and gory sexualized violence; see also women die so men can take revenge
- death by childbirth - of course, because women are seen largely as childbearers and mothers, death by childbirth is a preoccupation of writers, even when the death is wholly unrealistic (e.g., Star Wars Episode 1; Switch)
- women die so men can take revenge
- death by coughing - women in historical epics who cough inevitably have "consumption" and will die attractively; see, e.g., some large percentage of operas
- Dead/evil lesbian cliché - lesbian characters who might have been happy must die