The BBC today published Ralph Jones' in-depth and very enlightening article on the #writing trope "#fridging." The "phrase was inspired by a 1994 #GreenLantern story, in which the Green Lantern discovers that his girlfriend has been killed and stuffed into a fridge and, as [#film writer Izzie] Austin puts it, 'Dead wife make man sad; man process sad by doing #violence'." #DrPhibes anyone? https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20230315-how-shrinking-perpetuates-hollywoods-most-sexist-clich
How Shrinking perpetuates Hollywood's most sexist cliché

The Apple TV+ series is the latest screen hit to use a dead family member or romantic partner as a narrative driver for its male hero. When will this crass trope end, asks Ralph Jones.

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