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Originally Posted by adamhenderson
It is easy to say that women are presented well in slasher films because it is always a female character that survives at the end, but if we take into consideration the well worn trope that only the virgin survives in the end of most horror movies, it does raise some interesting implications with regards to sexism. The ultimate subconscious suggestion of a film like 'Halloween' is that women who don't have sex and focus on their academics are smarter than the supposed 'bimbos' who don't care for academics and have promiscuous sex.
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Although I can honestly only recall a handful of movies where that is actually the case - isn't that more of a religious thing? I mean, even people who are not religious are often more or less influenced by the religion of the society they have grown up in.
Look at all our prophets, or a character like the Virgin Mary. Look at all of our celibate priests, nuns and monks... So many of the holy characters and people that we are more or less raised to look up to, or even follow as our leaders, are virgins or at least celibate. I think it goes much deeper than just gender.
And again - are our male movie heroes any less stereotypical?