Why Are Manic Pixie Dream Girls Getting Dumber? - The Frisky
Look, let’s put aside the fact that manic pixie dream girls are inherently irritating, because the purpose of a woman’s life is not to make a boring accountant realize that he should run around naked in traffic. Unless that is her job, somehow. Unless it’s some sort of life coaching thing. Then I guess… life coaching is a field that really exists, in the real world, that real people pay for. People make choices. But that is never the case with manic pixie dream girls in the movies or television, because they never seem to have calculated career paths. They don’t want career paths! They just want to live!
That’s fine. That trope has existed for a very, very long time. The problem is not that that trope exists, it’s that it’s getting worse. …
As much as I love Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Audrey Hepburn, Holly Golightly is just about as annoying and incompetent as Jess or Natalie Portman in Garden State. The only difference is that she dresses way classier.
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As much as I love Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Audrey Hepburn, Holly Golightly is just about as annoying and incompetent...
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girls. It’s an impossible ideal...and it makes women seem helpless (like most tropes)
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