Women In Refrigerators: Part 2 of Why I Hate Feminists

A few days ago, I watched a YouTube video explaining the Women in Refrigerators phenomena.  The speaker in this video, Anita Sarkeesian, basically stated that pop culture is evil because a common occurrence in stories (this study focused on comic books), involves women being brutally murdered to set the plot for their male counterparts to avenge them.  Sarkeesian also complained that when male superheroes die, they tend to come back to life, whereas the women are never revived. 

     
Now I don’t have a problem with this study as a whole, I agree, though less common than the rescue damsel in distress cliché, the avenge mother/wife card is overused.  However, there is a very good reason for this.  Comic book authors want to deliver the best story possible, and there is nothing that develops a character like killing off his girlfriend.  Why do men come back and women stay dead?  You might ask.  This answer is even easier, in super hero comics, usually the male superhero is the main character.  You can’t kill him off and expect to keep making money.  Maybe if Women in Refrigerators had looked a little closer they might have realized that sexual equality in superheroes is pretty standard in series that don’t follow a single individual, such as X-men or The Avengers.  Of course, there’s always the question of why aren’t there more female leads in superhero comics….again the answer falls back to authors trying to deliver the best product.  It’s easier for a male cartoonists to identify with a male subject and write a good story from a male’s point of view.  Also, the comic reading demographic is largely male, and a protagonist of their same sex is general appeals to them more.  So in the end, in this particular case of sexism, I don’t believe it’s the oppressive grip of a patriarchal society that causes of super heroines to be brutally murdered, but actually the fault of females themselves.  Less females read comics, so in turn less females write comics, and as a result we have less female protagonists and more chopped up in the refrigerator. 

        
      In reality that was just a little thing that set me off, and probably wasn’t worth the rant I wrote about it.  Still, it is just one of the examples of failed feminism I would like to point out.  

Women in Refrigerators Video:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DInYaHVSLr8

Women in Refrigerators Website:  http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WomenInRefrigerators