::goes back to look::
Yeah...Nightswimming. I was actually distracted by the cruelty to the cellphones. Just tell the truth. Not an American English writer.
I read all of oxoniensis's (eta: non 'cest) work. Shame she fell out of love with the show--I'd like have seen her work with the canon we've had since she stopped writing.
I also found an interesting conversation about the difference between misogyny and sexism and how and where they may nor apply to Show. Points are made about can you achieve feminism by letting your men cry and be scared and experience the trappings of feminine characters, as well having women around that do what they do not because of the boys, and some of them even win.
And, oh, they die. Some with agency, some as the monster, some win as they die as the agent. Some manage to stay very present in the story despite being dead.
Carefully noted that Show listens too much to the Off With Her Head Brigades that rise up, but you still ended up with a Bela who didn't care about the Boys except for how they could help her, or Ruby who was playing them to end the world, or Ellen and Jo who were trying to help save the world.
Dean's got his issues, he's got a trailer-load. But it's not the same thing, and I don't think it's inherently damaging.
Horror movie tropes gives us a few more women in peril and women in white, but they're not usually knights in white armour plowing grateful damsels.