Damsel in Distress.
The damsel in distress is a stock character, a young, nubile woman placed in some dire predicament by some villain or monster. She inevitably requires a hero to rush valiantly to her rescue. Because of the politically incorrect nature the damsel in distress is not used as often as they previously were and when acted the role is usually played as camp. Video games still feature the occasional old-style damsel. Some traditional damsels in distress include Andromeda, Cinderella, Rapunzel, Sleeping Beauty, and Snow White.
In describing the mobilization of the damsel in distress character in popular news, Goff says “Ideally, from the point of view of political rulers, the redefinition circuit is only complete after the geopolitical war is reconstructed out of the social sphere and into the individual, whereupon the individual is iconographed in order to be reintegrated with a mythology that substitutes itself for social reality in the public imagination.”