Anonymous asked: You should really read Women in Refrigerators. You don't seem to understand what fridging is.

Answer:

phoenix:

brevoortformspring:

I think I understand what fridging is just fine. I simply do not agree that every instance of something bad happening to a female character within the context of a super hero story constitutes fridging.

I absolutely agree with this.  It’s like the tendency to say every Original Character MUST be a Mary Sue.

I’ve never liked how some people have taken fridging to such lengths that you can’t do ANYthing to a female character, else you get called out for it.  And it can frequently just be an emotional reaction to being a fan of said characters.

There IS a fine line between bad things happening to characters, and actual fridging, and that mileage is going to vary for everyone, but sometimes it’s just an overreaction.

And I’m doing a terrible job of explaining my thoughts, and have begun rambling, so shutting up now. >.<

#this  #this is a good and non screaming explanation that has so often escaped me 

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   That’s actually an excellent point (I don’t know if killing a non-female character purely in service of another...

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   You know comics way more than me, but I disagree with your argument about the killing of an established female...

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    I think this is a great summary of what fridging is.

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    Sometimes you get Whedon on Astonishing X-Men where he makes Kitty Pryde’s life a living hell, putting her through the...

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    Haha. I was trying to post a thing the other day and kept getting hung up on whether or not something constituted...

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    Much fridge. Such man pain. Wow.

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    I admit to being new to a lot of things in comics culture, but for me, whether something counts as fridging depends on...

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