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Article: Female Characters, Made To Suffer for Our 'Art'
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- September 18, 2005
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Women play an enormous role in the new television season.
They're paralyzed by venomous bites of exotic spiders that crawl
under their front doors, after which they can put up no struggle as
they're raped and murdered.
They're locked in the house for a couple of years by a husband who
chains them in the basement in a dog collar.
They're impaled on the ceiling, where they spontaneously combust.
They have strange unnamed things done to them by aliens during a
hurricane and wind up, in shock and naked (naturally), in a swamp.
They are abducted while test-driving a vintage sports car they saw
for sale on the Internet, have their mouths and eyes covered with