Dinah Lance In Green Arrow: The Longbow Hunters

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I found that the fridging of Dinah Lance in Green Arrow: The Longbow Hunters, was a bit different that the traditional definition of the act. Though Dinah is brutally tortured, she is not killed or disabled afterwards, so her death isn’t a meaningless act. However, the purpose of the scene is to force Ollie or Green Arrow to kill her torturer, without hesitation, an act only solicited by Dinah’s kidnapping. Also I did find that females were objectified throughout the comic, or at least stripped and naked for not real reason. Especially in the torture scene, Dinah is only wearing a shirt that is completely torn open, allowing us to see her entire body. It is gruesome, there is blood dripping down her body, she has multiple bruises, and it

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