--Anything where one character (especially the woman, because it's usually the woman) has to adhere more to stereotypical gender traits in order to be acceptable to the other.
Men who don't adhere to gender stereotypes are sensitive and learning. Women are unwomanly. Women who want men to adhere to gender stereotypes are pushy or worse, men who want women to adhere to gender stereotypes are looking for a good woman. Unless they're abusive.
--Anything where one character (especially the man, because it's usually the man) "protects" the other character by preventing them from doing things.
This can work if the person being stopped genuinely doesn't understand the danger. But normally, it's "you'll get in the way/can't handle it/etc."
>em>I'm kind of headdesking over this at the moment, actually, because one of the anime I follow just resolved a romantic plotline that I'd been very interested in (read as, in fandom terms: canoned my OTP!) in such a way as to contain both least favorite and favorite tropes. AUGH.
Don't you hate it when they go "Let me cater to your kinks in ways that will make you mad!" (I have this problem with shoujo a lot.)
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Date: 2008-11-18 10:22 pm (UTC)Men who don't adhere to gender stereotypes are sensitive and learning. Women are unwomanly. Women who want men to adhere to gender stereotypes are pushy or worse, men who want women to adhere to gender stereotypes are looking for a good woman. Unless they're abusive.
--Anything where one character (especially the man, because it's usually the man) "protects" the other character by preventing them from doing things.
This can work if the person being stopped genuinely doesn't understand the danger. But normally, it's "you'll get in the way/can't handle it/etc."
>em>I'm kind of headdesking over this at the moment, actually, because one of the anime I follow just resolved a romantic plotline that I'd been very interested in (read as, in fandom terms: canoned my OTP!) in such a way as to contain both least favorite and favorite tropes. AUGH.
Don't you hate it when they go "Let me cater to your kinks in ways that will make you mad!" (I have this problem with shoujo a lot.)