@DarthShap said:
Ok I had forgotten about that that was 1999 quote. My bad.
Having said that, the concept has evolved since then. At the time, nothing had been theorized. Since then however, the expression, the list and its interpretation have changed.
Now you go do your research. We are not in 1999 anymore. Here, I am helping you:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_Refrigerators
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WomenInRefrigerators
http://www.comicvine.com/women-in-refrigerators/12-43763/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DInYaHVSLr8
You are welcome.
The concept has not evolved. I was going to point this out, but hoped you would... the concept is flawed in principle. That name comes from a non-superheroine and yet the definition is only meant to address superheroines. It is more, in my estimation, blindness to context and males more so than it is that anything that is said about the idea is actually accurate. This is incredibly apparent when you look at some of the list with such an entry as "Carol Ferris" who was never "maimed or depowered" or at least that is not why she was added. Why she was added is because she became empowered, not once, but twice over. The reason she is on the list is because it's not favorable empowerment.
Further, the same type of people that would come up with this type of list are the same type of people that would say the primary victim of war are the women because they have to deal with their men (note the possessive as in the objectification of men) dying and then would argue that Arsenal's daughter's death isn't him being victim contrarily to their first point.
Of course then the whole argument of women who develop some sort of psychosis, are maimed, are raped, are victimized, etc is special to the gender...well i just have to laugh because that then ignores all those other characters such as Norman Osborn, Doc Oc., Harry Osborn, Sandman, many other Spiderman villains, almost all Batman villains, a litany of Superman villains, and not to mention all the heroes who face such things like Spiderman, the X-men, Speedy, Robin, etc. So when it all comes down to it I'm pretty sure I could find more male characters facing these things than female and I'd be more than willing to say, even adjusted so that it's based on percentage of victimized of the whole gender, males would likely come out way way way more victimized.
Oh and just to point out...the carol ferris thing invalidates the whole list in general because the idea is supposed to be depowered, not empowered v.v since again, part of the idea is depowerment without return to pre-depowered levels.
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