from TVtropes. I'm sure they have a page for it (don't even need to look) but they didn't come up with it, the term originates from the comic book community http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_Re http://www.unheardtaunts.com/wir/ The nature of it are the tendency by (primarily male) writers to use female characters as emotional foils for male characters by brutally killing them off. As was
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by Glamourweaver - 61 post
http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=488522&page=7#post11393994
