Monster Misogyny: Difference between revisions

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{{quote|''"You goddamn chauvinist pig ape!"''|'''Dwan''', ''[[King Kong]]'' (1976)}}

The phenomenon in [[B Movie|B Movies]] from the 1950s to early 1960s in which rampaging monsters/serial killers seem to focus their "random" attacks mostly on women. Usually young, innocent, vulnerable women. Although such films may show a man or two as victims, [[Double Standard|the real focus is on the ladies]]. For instance, if the movie includes a montage of attacks, expect every victim shown to be female.

The phenomenon in [[B-Movie|B Movies]] from the 1950s to early 1960s in which rampaging monsters/serial killers seem to focus their "random" attacks mostly on women. Usually young, innocent, vulnerable women. Although such films may show a man or two as victims, [[Double Standard|the real focus is on the ladies]]. For instance, if the movie includes a montage of attacks, expect every victim shown to be female.

This seems to be a wide-scale application of the [[Disposable Woman]] concept, sans any significant connection to [[The Hero]]; further, the deaths carry no more than the normal dramatic weight, and do not motivate the Hero to action any more than would male deaths. All other things being more or less equal, the director will simply ''choose'' to populate his movie with female victims. And then, of course, there are plots in which the killer will ''specifically'' target females.

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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.

If the women are abducted rather than killed, it's probably because [[Mars Needs Women]]. See also [[Distressed Damsel]], [[Mono Gender Monsters]], [[Touch of the Monster]]. Many this trope's aversions come from the fact that [[Men Are the Expendable Gender]].

If the women are abducted rather than killed, it's probably because [[Mars Needs Women]]. See also [[Distressed Damsel]], [[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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