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Author: Sligh_Br

Dec 31st 2013 at 8:16:05 AM

Even though this description is very bad and "feministrantish", I do think there's a trope buried there somewhere. Desperately NeedsABetterDescription because of that. OP should add the two comparisons proposed NoWomansLand and TheSmurfettePrinciple. Should also edit "incredibly fuking dumb" to makes no sense whatsoever within the story.

PS: Lord of The Rings is entirely justified in doing so, in my opinion, because it's about a male-centric society. Not to mention it's only broadly based on NorseMythology, mostly on it's creatures, not so much it's cosmology (which is much more based on christian mythology) or it's society (which is based in English Middle Ages). The LAST inspiration is what matter for this discussion, by the way.

Something like Star Trek (original series), on the other hand, is not justified at all and would be an example of this trope (how come a work set on a very egalitarian futuristic society has a grand total of ONE named female character and she's not even important to the plot?), in my opinion.