fall woman

English

Noun

fall woman (plural fall women)

1. female equivalent of fall guy
   • 1978 August 19, Lorraine Bethel, “Ella Ellison: The Voice of a Revolutionary Past”, in Gay Community News, volume 6, number 5, page 12:

     Plea bargaining is a clear example of what the white male ruling class encourages […] people in trouble with the system as a result of race, class, and other types of oppression are offered less punishment if they oppress others, or procure another victim for the state. Poor and Third World men, as well as gay men, are frequently encouraged by society to exercise their male privilege of oppressing women as their only means of "power." This is the same type of negative power Irving and Williams had in their situation. Their only access to life itself (since they falsely believed a first-degree murder sentence carried the death penalty) appeared to be in finding a fall woman for the prosecution.