Writers, you can do way better than that
Last week, local theater production “Ang Huling El Bimbo” was released online for public viewing amid quarantine.
Her story grows increasingly morbid as the play progresses: She gets raped by strangers, loses her friends in the process, thrown into prostitution and a life of drugs and is then killed in a hit-and-run at the end. In a story that revolves around Joy’s unfortunate fate, the men reap their character development and the woman ends up in a morgue.
Fridging is a trope that’s short for Women in Refrigerators. It refers to the “Green Lantern” canon where the hero’s girlfriend was found chopped up and stuffed into a refrigerator. People have been protesting against it since 1999. It started as a congregation of feminist comic book fans who have had enough of seeing fictional women’s lives discarded to “torture” other main characters—usually men.
Fiction is a boundless realm for creativity—so what reason is there to resort to a marginalized character’s tragedy or demise?, Elena Lazic emphasizes the frequency of sexual violence in films and how it often transforms into a misogynist depiction of power.
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