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swinging-stars-from-satellites · 2 months ago

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every time a woman dies in a story is not fridging every time a woman dies in a story does not inherently make it fridging fridging is not inherently bad or misogynistic it is a PLOT DEVICE that can be used to good or poor effect just like every other plot device PLEASE can we learn nuance

#also like. side characters die as plot motivators all the time why do we only complain about it when it's a woman #especially in media properties that historically have had a lot of female characters who DON'T die and who DO have their own purpose #outside of motivating a man i.e. dc comics or doctor who #like am I saying those media properties are perfect in their treatment of female characters? no! but writing a female character #especially a SIDE CHARACTER who was never meant to be an MC- out in order to motivate another character?#guys that's so normal. please stop acting like anytime a female character dies it's inherently evil misogynistic writers being patriarchal #bc it's not. it is a storytelling device. in the hands of a bad writer it can be bad. in the hands of a good writer it can be good #PLEASE stop acting like entire tropes are inherently Bad 🙄#sorry I just saw a post that rankled me #Lu rambles #also ☝️ ****'* ***** ** *** ******** 👍

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