![]() ![]() The idea for placing the list online originated with software developer Jason Yu, who also served as the original site host. Robert Harris, a librarian and comic-book fan, contributed to site maintenance and updates along with fan John Norris. Technology consultant John Bartol edited the content. Journalist Beau Yarbrough created the initial design and coding on the original site. Respondents often found different meanings to the list itself, though Simone maintained that her simple point had always been: "If you demolish most of the characters girls like, then girls won't read comics. The list is infamous in certain comic book fan circles. Simone also e-mailed many comic book creators directly for their responses to the list. The list was then circulated via the Internet over Usenet, bulletin board systems, email and electronic mailing lists. Simone and her colleagues then developed a list of fictional female characters who had been "killed, maimed or depowered", in particular in ways that treated the female characters as mere devices to move forward a male character's story arc, rather than as fully developed characters in their own right. ![]() ![]() 3 #54 (1994), written by Ron Marz, in which Kyle Rayner, the title hero, comes home to his apartment to find that the villain Major Force had killed his girlfriend, Alexandra DeWitt, and stuffed her in a refrigerator. It refers to an incident in Green Lantern vol. The term "Women in Refrigerators" was coined by writer Gail Simone as a name for the website in early 1999 during online discussions about comic books with friends. ![]()
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