trashmedium, it’s just too much. Women read comics also and get tired of this stuff.
A woman gets raped in a comic, do they show her dealing with it, her emotions, her thoughts? No, it’s all about the man in her life. He gets to be all upset and get all the thought bubbles, while he goes and beats up the guy who raped her.
Women gets killed, not because it’s important to the story, but just to get the man in her life to be all full of angst.
And, yes men can be “friged”. Usually happens less than women though and there are more men characters in comics, so that is wrong.
It’s bad writing.
What about “Identity Crisis”? Someone at DC suggested, “What we need is a rape!” I highly doubt they even thought about having it happen to a male character. Even if it did happen to a male character, I don’t think a rape was needed in the story.

Superheroes are chiefly men, and if that’s an issue, well, whatever, but the fact is they are, and the deaths of the women in these comics are chiefly due to the fact that the protaganist has a strong emotional attachment to them. so sure, is the whole “girlfriend gets killed by supervillian” deal a little played out? VERY. but calling it sexism is a little overdramatic.