Women in Refrigerators
Website analyzing comic book trope of female injury or death / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Women in Refrigerators (or WiR) is a website created in 1999[1] by a group of feminist comic-book fans that lists examples of the superhero comic-book trope whereby female characters are injured, raped, killed, or depowered (an event colloquially known as fridging), sometimes to stimulate "protective" traits, and often as a plot device intended to move a male character's story arc forward, and seeks to analyze why these plot devices are used disproportionately on female characters.
Type of site | Comic book |
|---|---|
| Available in | English |
| Owner | Gail Simone |
| Created by | Daniel Merlin Goodbrey Rob Harris Gail Simone Beau Yarbrough John Bartol |
| URL | lby3.com/wir |
| Registration | No |
| Launched | March 1999 |
| Current status | Online |