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** Sophia now too when you realize just how much she's suffered over the course of the series. She was raised with an abusive and potentially pedophilic father, witnessed the world ending and the dead coming back to devour the living, been on the run as everything fell apart, living in mortal terror every step of the way, and then [[It Got Worse]].

* [[Unfortunate Implications]]:

** Most female characters winds up playing damsel-in-distress far more often than not and don't mind sitting around doing more than domesticated roles. Lori explicitly calls Andrea useless because she is standing watch and scouting with the guys rather than performing domestic duties with the women in "18 Miles Out".

** Lori wanting to effectively [[Stay in the Kitchen]] is probably justified {{spoiler|what with her being pregnant and all}}, Andrea does want to help, as mentioned, and, well, time will tell with the others. Of course, Lori showing this attitude before that spoiler is probably harder to excuse, as is her wanting to project those gender roles onto others.

** Andrea's pretty incredulous when Lori says that, and more or less tells her that's a stupid attitude and that Lori's lucky she's been sheltered enough to be able to keep it this long.

** T-Dog is a serious offender. He's only known by the type of nickname normally associated with rappers. After Morgan, he's one of the only major black characters, and yet stands around doing next to nothing, in some episodes saying next to nothing, adds no real value to the group, and only seems to be in the show for [[Anvilicious]] moments (i.e., Merle's racist rant) or to say "black guy" things (his statement about "not doing that gangsta shit" during a firing range training).

** The show seems to go out of it's way to portray its female characters as foolish, stupid, and impulsive whenever they dare to act on their own initiative. See Andrea's shooting of {{spoiler|Daryl}}, and Lori's crash in "Nebraska". None of the male characters, even the barely trained civilians such as Dale or Glenn, ever face such problems.

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