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As a direct result of this trope, many slasher movies have a [[Final Girl]] (and one with no form of self-defense training at that), since audiences are somehow more likely to root for a young, nubile, defenseless ([[Missing White Woman Syndrome|white]]) woman on the run from a psychopath who gutted her friends like fish, as opposed to a man in a similar position. |
As a direct result of this trope, many slasher movies have a [[Final Girl]] (and one with no form of self-defense training at that), since audiences are somehow more likely to root for a young, nubile, defenseless ([[Missing White Woman Syndrome|white]]) woman on the run from a psychopath who gutted her friends like fish, as opposed to a man in a similar position. |
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If the women are abducted rather than killed, it's probably because [[Mars Needs Women]]. See also [[ |
If the women are abducted rather than killed, it's probably because [[Mars Needs Women]]. See also [[Damsel in Distress]], [[Mono-Gender Monsters]], [[Touch of the Monster]]. Many this trope's aversions come from the fact that [[Men Are the Expendable Gender]]. |
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