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In the Movies, Why Does the Woman Always Have to Die? And Other Gender Stereotypes

Psychology in Everyday Life: The Psych Files

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Deadpool - Is There a Female Character in the Movie?

In deadpool, too, we see what we see in other films. There is such a thing as the becdel test that also looks at how many women are in a movie. So it's just weird that we need a female character to be attacked and perhaps killed in order to give the male character an acceptable way to access his feelings. I'll have links to some of the newer booksat mean, you may have heard of heather has two mommies,. Other books, daddy's roommate and a tale of two daddies.

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