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Much of Gail Simone’s popularity comes from the 1990s, when she attacked male comic writers for putting superhero girlfriends in harm’s way, coining the term “fridging.” Now she’s bragging about the term being added to the dictionary on BlueSky in a retrospective on feminism after the comic industry collapse.
Comic books have been in a dismal state of sales for the last decade or more, largely because the storylines stopped being fun and mattering. Marvel and DC Comics set up a duopoly in the United States after decades of flooding the shelves to squeeze out competitors, leaving the big-2 as the only ones left standing that drew readers to a decreasing market of specialty shops.
Most fans wanted to see their beloved superheroes continue their adventures, but in the mid-2010s, readers saw them replaced with a black, female Iron Man, female Thor, black-hispanic Spider-Man, gay Superman, and more as a new crop of writers took over, forming a whisper network of those who bowed to identity politics first before storytelling. The industry collapsed as a result and hasn’t recovered, even though some gimmicks such as the Absolute DC Universe and Ultimate Marvel Universe are keeping the companies afloat in the short term.
How did the industry get to this point? It began in the 1990s when feminists started questioning superheroes, traditionally books aimed at teenage boys, and trying to rewrite the industry to find a new, modern audience. While the 1990s went to their excesses in edginess and violence as well as over-the-top sexuality, it was geared at a teenage boy market competing with ever-increasing movies and video games in the same vein.
Gail Simone rose to prominence in the comics industry through her incisive feminist critique during this time, most notably with the 1999 launch of the website Women in Refrigerators, which she co-founded. The site, named after a controversial scene in Green Lantern #54 where Kyle Rayner’s girlfriend is murdered and stuffed in a refrigerator, cataloged instances of female characters being killed, maimed, or depowered to advance male-driven narratives. This concept, dubbed “fridging,” became a rallying point for discussions on female representation in comics, which then pressured editors into hiring more female writers to try to manipulate the state of comics.
As more women became influential in the industry, comics began to change and diminish as a result as a traditionally male hobby was invaded for a female space. Many of the readers tuned out over the period of years, arguably leading the comic industry to the state it is now, where there’s very little discussion of story or characters anymore.
On BlueSky, Gail Simone noted that the fridging term was added to the dictionary, bragging about it in a link saying, “So Mirriam Webster has announced that 'FRIDGE' is an official word in their dictionary now, and sited me as the concept's creator in the definition. Very cool, and weird at the same time. I got death threats over this, cool for it it to be recognized.”
As more women became influential in the industry, comics began to change and diminish as a result as a traditionally male hobby was invaded for a female space. Many of the readers tuned out over the period of years, arguably leading the comic industry to the state it is now, where there’s very little discussion of story or characters anymore.
She clarified once a reader mentioned that they lamented the storyline in Green Lantern that started it all, saying, “That's important. I don't blame Ron Marz for any of this, I LIKED the way he wrote Alex and Kyle is still my favorite. It was the TREND that was the issue. @ronmarz.bsky.socialhas always been incredibly gracious and understanding about this.”
Ron Marz, in recent years, has been known to deftly navigate this comic industry field by making over-the-top political posts on leftist identity politics. Comic insiders have told Fandom Pulse that Marz is often disingenuous in this and simply posts that way to appease members of the whisper network to keep getting writing jobs in the industry, which, unfortunately, is how someone has to maintain their clout given the rampant blacklisting going on of political opponents of this extreme leftist tribe.
Even though Simone may have gotten in the dictionary, the “Women in Fridges” situation shows a clear line between declining comic book sales and interest, to where the industry needs to wake up and change if they’re going to get back to the male-centric action fun that brought readers to comic books in the first place.
>>148984734>whisper networkI heard they have issues with abusers. So you know Bleeding Fool writers are out.
Do people really care that much about what gets added to a dictionary?
you need more viewership to your blog or something OP?
>>148984687 (OP)I still like Gail for her giantess and vore coomerism
Funny that Wifebeater Arroz is crying about this considering that every time I view one of Gail's tweets I see him replying to her and constantly getting ignored
>Irrelevant hack clinging to any shred of relevance
Wow! Anyway.
>>148985147uhh bleedingcool.also made a article of this. enjoy
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/gail-simone-definition-of-fridge-now-in-merriam-webster-dictionary/
>>148984687 (OP)I thought Simone regretted making that term popular. Oh well.
>>148984687 (OP)This bitch is insufferable.
>>148985257I remember Simone supported some weird schizo named Archie-edits who made Photoshop edits of Betty and Veronica as lesbians and other comics, and she'd pass them along as if they were real.
There was also a gay black wannabe comic writer called Neo-prodigy talking about how he'd strangle fujos with piano wire that was one of her besties but don't know what happened with him.
>>148984687 (OP)>Comic books have been in a dismal state of sales for the last decade or more, largely because the storylines stopped being fun and mattering.The specific way they're produced and sold got nothing to do with it, I'm sure. If you want to make a product that's all the author's incestuous masturbatory fanfics fantasies, you should at least make it feature siblings touching each other's privates occasionally.
Ain't nobody cares for your interpretation of Oreo Woman and Monster Energy Man otherwise.
>>148984687 (OP)Fridging is next-level marxist mental illness. I mean it. Up there with shit like "magical negro". It takes a mind diseased beyond repair to think a man reacting with sadness at a woman dying is female genocide.
I believe the overreliance of stereotypes are bad in storytelling terms but to a certain extent the issue isn't necessarily political but part of the nature of the industry. (People who desperately try to avoid stereotypes often fall into other stereotypes which they are blind to.)
If you have 21-23 pages to tell a story each week, you have to contend with short hand to tell a story. You cannot develop everyone and sometimes you do create contrived situations to create drama and tension. Superhero comics are largely a disposable form of entertainment and were never supposed to be taken seriously. I can spend multiple issues building up a villain with a point but at some point they will have to go too far so the hero can beat them.
I would love for the writing to be better in comics and for storytelling and characters to be better. But in some ways I feel the entrenched industry issues became entrenched creative issues and even people like Gail cannot escape contrived storytelling techniques of comics, she just uses a different flavour whilst criticising the old flavour.
Dictionaries won't define what women means now
>>148986374>Up there with shit like "magical negro".There is a literal magical German in the old "Don't be a Sucker" short from WW2.
The stock character is real, which is why nobody figured that a movie character getting stalked by a German trying to tell him all about Fascism was weird in any way.
Go touch grass.
>>148984687 (OP)That fat bitch is really proud of extorting her way into the industry huh.
She did the Sweet Baby Inc. thing decades before SBI existed. Called a company bigoted online until they hired her purely to make her shut up. The "problem" of course always was completely made up.
>>148986851She was fine rubbing elbows and bumping fists with some of those dastardly male bigot pigs until they'd personally inconvenience her image too, like Byrne.
>>148986851Nah, the late 80s and 90s were full of capeshit characters being murdered and revived to drive sales, including Batman just walking off a severed spine.
Heck, they apparently even tabled killing that Robin through AIDS before they settled on leaving it up to a telephone vote.
>>148986902Nice try but that wasn't what she complained about. She specifically framed killing off side characters as a female-only problem and called DC sexists. Nonstop. Until they paid her protection money, essentially.
>>148986851She showed you the way, but she can't take your hand.
You too can draw a salary writing capeshit simply by being a very persistent online stalker. It's not like they got quality standards.
>>148984687 (OP)They recorded another common usage.
So, unless she can demonstrate that at least 20% of all usage cases of the term are by her own hand, her role in getting the explanation added to the dictionary isn't significant.
But then again, she knows how her business operates.
>>148986607Ah yes, the famous German negros
>>148984734>Ron MarzI almost punched him at a convention after party last year. The man has an ego he never earned.
>>148984787A little bit. It's an indicator of who has social power in a society. See also things like the deicision to capitalize Black when referring to race, but NOT white, by the powers that be.
>>148984687 (OP)Oh look, a bitter eunuch whining about something he never understood. She didn't even write the big list of bullshit.
Gail fucking wrote birds of prey with Benes on art and Cocreated fucking outlaw, and she defends Marz to this day.
Imagining she's some man-hating dyke feminazi to crusade only proves your battle hardened pussy drying skills and how right people are that you're a bunch of furry cave dwelling virgins bitching at mom about your nugs
>>148987735Ron Marz changed Jade's origin to involve near-rape by her foster dad. Ow the edge.
>>148987963Enjoy the tendies and stay downstairs while your mom gets her back blown out, little buddy.
This destroys trump chudcels
>>148984687 (OP)kill yourself you fucking spic nobody gives a fuck about your shitty 'news' blog
