just ask any silent movie heroine who's been tied to a railroad track
See, I'm not sure that's the same kind of thing. That's suspense, where you wonder if the rescuer will get there in time. Also, for me, at least, an important component of h/c is that the suffering serve some purpose -- the hero is being tortured because his withholding of information will save lives, or he got an injury or an ilness from doing some kind of good deed.
A female hero can certainly do all that, but it's not common. Most female suffering in movies is done quite specifically to make pain look like sexual pleasure. (I remember a woman-written video game review site where one of their benchmarks was how much female characters sound like they're having an orgasm when they die.)
I'm not sure which is your Freudian typo. Woobie? I don't even know what that means or what you were trying to type. ^^;;
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See, I'm not sure that's the same kind of thing. That's suspense, where you wonder if the rescuer will get there in time. Also, for me, at least, an important component of h/c is that the suffering serve some purpose -- the hero is being tortured because his withholding of information will save lives, or he got an injury or an ilness from doing some kind of good deed.
A female hero can certainly do all that, but it's not common. Most female suffering in movies is done quite specifically to make pain look like sexual pleasure. (I remember a woman-written video game review site where one of their benchmarks was how much female characters sound like they're having an orgasm when they die.)
I'm not sure which is your Freudian typo. Woobie? I don't even know what that means or what you were trying to type. ^^;;