Talk:Women in Refrigerators

Isn't there a another term, one more widely used, for this plot device, like "dead girlfriend of the week" or something? --Mrs. Potato Head 13:25, 9 October 2010 (UTC)

Women In Refrigerators may be less immediately understandable to someone with no connection to US comics, TV Tropes, Television Without Pity, etc., but it is more widely used than any other single term aside from possibly The Cartwright Curse, which turns up regularly outside of fandom as well. Girl of the Week and Babe of the Week are both common in those exact formats. The doomed love interest thing has dozens of quickly-coined, quickly-forgotten variants rather than a single widely-accepted term... at least in my experience. Franzeska 20:49, 12 October 2010 (UTC)

Split page?

I'm beginning to think this page should be split into two-- one for Gail Simone's original site (maybe called "Gail Simone - Women in Refrigerators" or "Women in Refrigerators (website)" which could go into the history of the site, list various reactions from fans & pros, etc., arguments & counter-arguments, references in various canons, etc. (Like, I wanted to get into the Ron Marz "women in ovens" thing and Gail Simone's awesome subversion of the trope in "Black Canary" but it doesn't really seem to fit on this page....) And then maybe this page could be redone as a trope page, either still called "Women in Refrigerators" or maybe just called "Fridging," and it would describing the trope *as a trope*. Thoughts? -- Liviapenn 06:36, 25 October 2010 (UTC)

Sounds good to me. The use of 'fridging' as an expression has strayed pretty far from the original site. Franzeska 16:26, 25 October 2010 (UTC)

Sounds good to me too. Right now the page looks like it's trying to go in to directions at the same time. --Doro 18:35, 25 October 2010 (UTC)