Writerly Ways

[cornerofmadness]

I was thinking about tropes I no longer want to see any more. Not because I'm tired of them (looking at you arrogant disdainful detective in the Sherlock mold) but because they just might not be that great of an idea and yet have become somehow ridiculously popular

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[ozma914]

I'll go you one better--a girl once broke up with me because I was too nice of a guy.

Yeah, I'm with you a hundred percent: Even an alpha male doesn't have to be an asshole.

[cornerofmadness]

Oh lord. She's probably one who enjoys these romances. It's like a form of internalized misogyny.

Exactly you can be alpha without being cruel

[ozma914]

No, she was a self-stylized Bad Girl: Reading anything would be one of those things only good people do. You know those people who sit around when there are piles of books in the next room, but they're bored to tears because there's no booze and they don't have money for a new tattoo? One of those.

[cornerofmadness]

Ah yeah I know that woman

[classics_lover]

There's the Ross Gellers of the world, male characters who are coded to seem like they are nice but they are just as self-centred and dickish as the guys who are honest about what assholes they are. I can live a long, happy life never seeing those guys show up in media again.

Give me all the media that breaks down toxic masculinity.

[cornerofmadness]

I actually had to look that up. Believe it or not I've never seen Friends (just not my thing) but yeah I get what you're saying.

It's one of the things I really like, as I said about Pson. Gil especially is non-toxic and I want more of that