Gender Dynamics Index: Difference between revisions

 

This index is divided into five sections:

* Gender Dynamic Metatropes: Illustrating the underlying dynamic in characterization of male and female charaters that give rise to many [[Double Standards]].

* Female Tropes: How the Gender Dynamic Metatropes manifest for female characters.

* Male Tropes: How the Gender Dynamic Metatropes manifest for male characters.

* Contrasts: Direct contrasts between [[Always Female]] and [[Always Male]] Tropes that illustrate gender dynamics.

* In Real Life: Research that illustrates aspects of Gender Dynamics. (Acceptable: studies on double standards in how we view men and women or media that illustrates a double standard. Unacceptable: Political writings aiming to use evidence of double standards to advance an agenda.)

 

* [[Karma Houdini]]: more often applied to villainous female characters.

* [[Villainesses Want Heroes]]: All that a villainess needs to be redeemed is true love. Or just good sex.

 

In summary, objectification is when a female character is reduced down to her passive attributes and her agency denied. It can manifest in being valued for fanservice, but more subtly when a female character is characterized as good or competent ''because'' she's female or her negative actions downplayed as the fault of a male character. The implication is that objects, namely women, don't have the ability to make moral choices; their existence is summed up by their attributes and all their apparent 'choices' are the result of the agency of real people, namely men.

 

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[[Category:Sociology Tropes]]

[[Category:Characters As Device]]

[[Category:Gender and Sexuality Tropes]]

[[Category:Narrative Tropes]]