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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