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3.51 AVERAGE
3.51 AVERAGE
Adding to the growing number of voices about Refrigerator Women not being even remotely okay, Moraine has written a fine short story.
As a rule, dead girls tend to leave pretty corpses.
this was a story but not really. there's no way to spoil this. dead girls. dead girls everywhere. no one's taking care of them or dealing with them. it's not an apocalypse or anything. they're just there. is it a metaphor? i don't know.
this was a story but not really. there's no way to spoil this. dead girls. dead girls everywhere. no one's taking care of them or dealing with them. it's not an apocalypse or anything. they're just there. is it a metaphor? i don't know.
Initially, I decided giving it a 2-star rating because I liked the premise but failed to understand the entirety of it as well as the writing style. I figured that liking this one requires an acquired taste and I should just give up w/ understanding what it wants to convey. Naturally, since I don't want to admit defeat and felt like it'd be shameful for someone who titles herself as a critical reader to just get on w/ life and not know what point I've missed, I researched my way and read more articles about this (best decision ever)
[b:Eyes I Dare Not Meet in Dreams|35435608|Eyes I Dare Not Meet in Dreams|Sunny Moraine|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1497524698s/35435608.jpg|56815919] is a feminist tale fleshing out the Woman in Refrigerators Trope and attacking society's usual demeanor towards this movement. Basically the Woman in Refrigerators Trope is "where a woman's intense suffering is used to kickstart or progress the male protagonist's storyline. The woman is typically the protagonist's partner, family member, or love interest. The origin of the term is in a specific comic book story, where the protagonist finds his female partner murdered, and hidden in his refrigerator." And that my dear friends, is one of the worst and problematic plot devices used in media history. We don't have time for more women characters to be handed down in the arms of death just to spark something heroic! This short fiction does a fine job w/ protesting against this trope and somehow divulges more disturbing narratives of the undermined female character.
This pertains to how often women characters are portrayed by the media in a sexualized manner even in death. Ain't that pretty "aesthetic"?
Dang, have I not read more follow-up articles about all this sht, I would still probably be clueless about this trope and the story's conviction. Though I have to say, I still didn't like much of the writing style, it's easy to read but that's just it. Additional 2 stars because I learned a lot of things because of my initial confusion!
Here's the link to this: https://www.tor.com/2017/06/14/eyes-i-dare-not-meet-in-dreams/
"We never would have believed, before the dead girls started climbing out of their refrigerators, that people could be literally resurrected by sheer indignation."
[b:Eyes I Dare Not Meet in Dreams|35435608|Eyes I Dare Not Meet in Dreams|Sunny Moraine|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1497524698s/35435608.jpg|56815919] is a feminist tale fleshing out the Woman in Refrigerators Trope and attacking society's usual demeanor towards this movement. Basically the Woman in Refrigerators Trope is "where a woman's intense suffering is used to kickstart or progress the male protagonist's storyline. The woman is typically the protagonist's partner, family member, or love interest. The origin of the term is in a specific comic book story, where the protagonist finds his female partner murdered, and hidden in his refrigerator." And that my dear friends, is one of the worst and problematic plot devices used in media history. We don't have time for more women characters to be handed down in the arms of death just to spark something heroic! This short fiction does a fine job w/ protesting against this trope and somehow divulges more disturbing narratives of the undermined female character.
"That’s the thing, actually. There are exceptions: girls with horrific traumatic injuries, girls missing limbs, girls who were clearly burned alive. A lot of those last. But for the most part the flesh of the dead girls tends to be undamaged except for the small evidences of what did them in, and there’s always something about those things which is oddly delicate. Tasteful. Aesthetically pleasing.
As a rule, dead girls tend to leave pretty corpses.
This pertains to how often women characters are portrayed by the media in a sexualized manner even in death. Ain't that pretty "aesthetic"?
Dang, have I not read more follow-up articles about all this sht, I would still probably be clueless about this trope and the story's conviction. Though I have to say, I still didn't like much of the writing style, it's easy to read but that's just it. Additional 2 stars because I learned a lot of things because of my initial confusion!
Here's the link to this: https://www.tor.com/2017/06/14/eyes-i-dare-not-meet-in-dreams/