If you’ve been here long, you know that a lot of my pure and unbridled hatred for love triangles is that the second male is usually likable, nice and sympathetic (or darker and interesting-the point is, a character we’re meant to like) and the second female is greedy and jealous and we’re meant to hate her.
Ouch. Yes, that drives me bananas -- it feels like kin with the equally-loathed trope 'men's friendships are manly and firm and real and reliable and quietly deep, while women's friendships are false sweetness spread very, very thinly over catty hatred and viciousness.'
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Date: 2008-09-17 12:11 am (UTC)Ouch. Yes, that drives me bananas -- it feels like kin with the equally-loathed trope 'men's friendships are manly and firm and real and reliable and quietly deep, while women's friendships are false sweetness spread very, very thinly over catty hatred and viciousness.'