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#сексистское
#металитература
И, немного о сексизме в литературе.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MenAreTheExpendableGender

Men Are the Expendable Gender
A Double Standard in media whereby women automatically have the audience's sympathy and men don't. Comes in large part for the need for hordes of non-faceless Mooks whose suffering and death we won't lose much sleep over in all sorts of media.

A female character can lose that some or even all of the audience's sympathy if they are manipulative, somehow 'immoral', ugly, or just plain evil. Male characters on the other hand have to earn the audience's sympathy by entertaining or interesting us with their their actions. If they don't, we either don't care what happens to them or want them to suffer for failing to entertain/interest us. A Lovable Coward male character is not an exception since we find them entertaining.

Strangely, women find it difficult to lose audience sympathy by being useless, worse than useless, or selfish cowards - as long as they don't get other people with the audience's sympathy killed, that is. Stranger still, all this can still hold true if the woman in question has already been established as a Bad Ass. See Chickification.

Perhaps strangest of all, this trope also bleeds over into villain roles: the suffering and death of female villains is generally not dwelt upon, if only because they are generally less evil than their male counterparts. But the suffering and death of male villains, on the other hand, is much more acceptable if only because they are often so much, well, eviler.

Like most tropes, this one didn't come out of nowhere. In the Time Before Writing, men literally were more expendable than women because in the event of a population-decimating war or natural disaster, one man and ten women could produce ten babies in the time it took ten men and one woman to produce one. Therefore, societies and species that didn't treat men as more expendable than women tended to expand more slowly and die out more easily than those that did. In today's world of modern health care, food surpluses and peace treaties the trope is less relevant, but it still lives on in our cultural assumptions... not entirely without reason, as the basic underlying logic (pregnancy takes X number of months to complete once started regardless of how often or with how many partners a woman has sex, and women only average Y children per pregnancy) still haven't changed.

The consequences of this are complicated, but in summary:

If the story requires random anonymous characters to die just to move the plot forward, they'll likely be male. If the plot requires a tragic death that motivates the protagonists or shows how evil the villains are, the victim will be female. Similarly if the story demands random mooks get a beat down by a character to up the sense of danger or just show off how awesome the protagonist is, they will be male.
Female villains are more likely to be redeemed and also less likely to be taken seriously in their villainy.
Male characters get more explicit and brutal deaths. If a man and a woman are killed in equally brutal ways, the woman's death is treated as worse. Extra points if the camera cuts away right before she gets butchered.
Male villains who target female characters are portrayed as more evil than those who target men.
Sympathetic male characters are expected to put themselves at risk to protect female characters. Female characters do not lose as much audience sympathy for being unwilling to put themselves at risk to protect characters of either gender and are less likely to be accused of cowardice.

#сексистское
#депрессия_в_клиническом_понимании
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