Changing essay title

As I write more of my essay and read more little bits of information, I've realised that what I really want to say in my essay is that female characters in cinema are actually damaging to women in the real world. So I've changed my essay title again, to 'How are the tropes of female characters damaging to women?'

I don't know how much I can actually proves the links between presentation of female characters and sexism/violence against women in the real world, but you can't argue that most violence against women is committed by men, and most instances of rape and domestic violence are vastly committed against women, rather than men, And even if men are the targets, it is mostly men acting against men too. 

I think that while the correlation may not necessarily be provable, especially as I only have a few days left to write this essay, but these tropes definitely fuel the fire for a lot of men whose masculinity is threatened, and who are perhaps on the cusp of greater violence against women, even if they don't realise it.

In fact, it may be the ones who don't realise what they're doing that make it worse. Many men who have raped women may not even consider it rape as they're doing it, because they're taught to be entitled from a young age, and taught to disrespect women from a young age, subliminally, through not only the tropes within films, but also how female characters are treated outside of films. For example, the fact that female characters are often left out of merchandise - like the absence of Princess Leia, Gamora (Guardians of the Galaxy) and Black Widow (Avengers) costumes and merchandise. We are taught that women are secondary, almost objects sometimes, and this culture continues to undermine women and threaten their safety.