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Gotham City is really not a very good place to be a woman. Gothamites who happen to be female have very few options beyond being a damsel in distress, a sex object and/or dead. In fact the only women on the list who arguably don’t fit into one (or more) of these categories are Batgirl and police officer Anna Ramirez from The Dark Knight - but she ends up being a traitor whose life is only spared via a random coin toss.
There are a few other women who briefly appear in the six Batman movies (including the five unnamed women who hang on Bruce Wayne’s arms in the Nolan films) however their roles are so minor and unimportant to the plot that I’ve elected not to included them in this infographic.
As Elisa Kreisinger recently pointed out on her blog the stereotypical Hollywood roles for women coupled with the male gaze behind the camera poses a big problem for video remixers wishing to create alternative visual stories. Because there is so little to work with in the original source its extremely difficult to re-imagine stronger or more complete female characters in a Batman Universe remix. That said I’m carefully searching the filmographies of both Uma Thurman and Michelle Pfeiffer looking for creative ways to include them in this project without all the sexist tropes.
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Gotham City is really not a very good place to be a woman. Gothamites who happen to be female have very few options beyond being a damsel in distress, a sex object and/or dead. In fact the only women on the list who arguably don’t fit into one (or more) of these categories are Batgirl and police officer Anna Ramirez from The Dark Knight - but she ends up being a traitor whose life is only spared via a random coin toss.

There are a few other women who briefly appear in the six Batman movies (including the five unnamed women who hang on Bruce Wayne’s arms in the Nolan films) however their roles are so minor and unimportant to the plot that I’ve elected not to included them in this infographic.

As Elisa Kreisinger recently pointed out on her blog the stereotypical Hollywood roles for women coupled with the male gaze behind the camera poses a big problem for video remixers wishing to create alternative visual stories. Because there is so little to work with in the original source its extremely difficult to re-imagine stronger or more complete female characters in a Batman Universe remix. That said I’m carefully searching the filmographies of both Uma Thurman and Michelle Pfeiffer looking for creative ways to include them in this project without all the sexist tropes.

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