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Uncanny X-Men Writer Gail Simone Boasts About Feminist Term "Fridging" Being Added To The Dictionary

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Jun 12, 2025
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Much of Gail Simone’s popularity comes from the 1990s, when she attacked male comic writers for putting superhero girlfriends in harm’s way, coining the term “fridging.” Now she’s bragging about the term being added to the dictionary on BlueSky in a retrospective on feminism after the comic industry collapse.

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