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Natalie Portman Finds It Upsetting to Be Part of Manic Pixie Dream Girl Trope

posted 6 years ago by TMC-4 (19528)
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http://www.vulture.com/2018/10/natalie-portman-manic-pixie-dream-girl.html

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

Whats with the manic pixie dream girl trope?! Is it a recent trend thing or I’ve been living under the rock? I don’t mean the actual trope, girls depicted in the movies in that way, just that name for that certain trope.

I’ve only heard about it recently, like two weeks ago on YT, it was referenced about the girl in 200 Day of Summer movie, and the actress Zooey Deschanel in general that she often playes the type.

And now this is like the 3rd time I’ve seeing it mentioned.

[–] TexasJack (12515) 6 years ago

I recall first hearing the phrase about five years ago.

[–] MavKilledGoose (788) 5 years ago

Baader-Meinhof phenomenon.

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

Yes, it seems so.

My new BM phenomenon thing is the “plot armor”, I started seeing it a lot on the GOT board, even under GOT related YT video in comments after season 8.

I noticed someone saying for that particular word in the comments it has become a trend.

Although I did check in urban dictionary the phrase was listed in 2008.

But I still believe there are certain trendy words spoken at the certain periods of time, e.g. now days it is bae, woke, and so on, and in the late 60’s trendy word for example was groovy which I guess now is lame to say (English is not my first language so I might be wrong).

Sometimes when I google some word meaning it will also show a line chart with the timeline when that word was most in the use and when it started to decline.

[–] sut6432 (2845) 5 years ago

This is ridiculous.

It's amazing to me how much some women in today's world are moving so far away from having any kind of heart.

Apparently, caring about a man is wrong, falling in love is considered wrong, trying to help someone who isn't yourself is wrong, and being a decent human being is wrong.

Natalie Portman sucks. All she does now is bitch about feminism. So much so that she degraded the 5 men nominated for best director at the Golden Globes a few years ago because they had a dick and balls.

Society is screwed. At least the population will decrease with so many women turning into cold hearted selfish assholes, because no one will want to be around them with their constant need to be a victim of some societal cause.