I don't much care about the sex of a fridging victim, honestly. I find it annoying when ANY character is killed purely to advance the motives of a central protagonist.
I don't mean to say that if only Rue was a boy, it would be fine to treat him as a disposable nonperson who exists only to validate the main character. The fact fridging mostly happens to female characters in media/the way those characters are treated overall in this book overall is just indicative of a second problem.
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Date: 2012-03-25 01:47 pm (UTC)I don't mean to say that if only Rue was a boy, it would be fine to treat him as a disposable nonperson who exists only to validate the main character. The fact fridging mostly happens to female characters in media/the way those characters are treated overall in this book overall is just indicative of a second problem.