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Dear people complaining about certain events in Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows:
Irene being killed was not "fridging". Moriarty had a logical reason to kill her, which, as a bonus, happened to harm Holmes. He kills lots of men for the exact same reason throughout the film; they are no longer useful. If you complain about this, you are arguing that this is somehow especially bad because Irene was a woman, or that Irene should've been treated differently than others, because she's a woman. Given that the others happened to include Mary Marston-Watson and Simza, you're arguing that she should be treated differently than even other women.
Heck, Moriarty even says he's going to kill Watson just to dick with Holmes. So the bad guy says he's going to kill a man just to screw with the male lead, and that's okay, but when he kills a woman for objective reasons which also happen to screw with the male lead, it's horribad.
And don't say fridging is really about how women are more likely to be killed off than men in media. Because that means you can point to literally any instance of a woman dying, and say she's been fridged. The term's effectively meaningless. Even within the film, most of the people dying and being threatened are men. Of the three female featured characters, one dies, and they are threatened, altogether, on a half-dozen occasions. By contrast, the male characters die in droves, and the title character dies twice.
I do find it ironic that Women In Fridges, which was created to condemn sexism, was itself somewhat sexist and has been used to perpetuate sexism. The original list included merely bad things happening to women, without any comparison to bad things happening to men. It's not so much comparing apples to oranges as comparing a red apple to another apple which is invisible, but it's totally there, guys, and it's green and not ripe and filled with worms. Then everyone started saying that every red apple was one of the ones that was better than the invisible green apple. Yes, we know green apples exist, and there are less of them than red apples, but aside from them being green, how do they differ? No, that green apple is one of the good ones, but everyone knows most are bad.
-J
Heck, Moriarty even says he's going to kill Watson just to dick with Holmes. So the bad guy says he's going to kill a man just to screw with the male lead, and that's okay, but when he kills a woman for objective reasons which also happen to screw with the male lead, it's horribad.
And don't say fridging is really about how women are more likely to be killed off than men in media. Because that means you can point to literally any instance of a woman dying, and say she's been fridged. The term's effectively meaningless. Even within the film, most of the people dying and being threatened are men. Of the three female featured characters, one dies, and they are threatened, altogether, on a half-dozen occasions. By contrast, the male characters die in droves, and the title character dies twice.
I do find it ironic that Women In Fridges, which was created to condemn sexism, was itself somewhat sexist and has been used to perpetuate sexism. The original list included merely bad things happening to women, without any comparison to bad things happening to men. It's not so much comparing apples to oranges as comparing a red apple to another apple which is invisible, but it's totally there, guys, and it's green and not ripe and filled with worms. Then everyone started saying that every red apple was one of the ones that was better than the invisible green apple. Yes, we know green apples exist, and there are less of them than red apples, but aside from them being green, how do they differ? No, that green apple is one of the good ones, but everyone knows most are bad.
-J