anosognosic:

argumate:

problematic tropes are only problematic due to their prevalence, not bad in and of themselves; they are bad on a statistical level.

this complicates the discourse significantly as it means any individual application of a terrible trope is not very terrible at all, a subtlety that is hard to express and which most people don’t seem to get.

bold talk for a post that doesn’t even pass the bechdel test