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Women in Refrigerators - the tendency to have female characters raped, murdered, or brutalized in order to give their male counterparts some extra motivation - is certainly a blight on the superhero genre. But it's a fixture of TV and movies, too; Dark Knight director Christopher Nolan played the "dead wife" card in two of his previous movies, and the grotesque scene from which the "Women in Refrigerators" cliche gets its name bears an uncanny resemblance to the ending of David Fincher's roughly contemporaneous Seven. Credit where credit is due: In an entertainment landscape that routinely uses female characters as disposable mechanisms to drive the actions of the their male compatriots, comic books are the one medium in which people noticed.

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If you have this journal friended, there is almost no chance that you haven't heard about the Recent Unpleasantness (aka the Open Source Boobs Project), so I will skip straight to the best thing to come out of it (for the two or three people who might not yet have heard of this), the Open Source Women Back Each Other Up Program. There were buttons and t-shirts and stickers within a few hours, of course. I just ordered two 10-packs of the medium-sized buttons. (And I ain't going to wait for the next con to start wearing one.)

As the OP said to a commenter who congratulated her on winning the internet, the aim here is in fact to win at REAL LIFE.