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Which do you think should be retired: the damsel in distress or the femme fatale?

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Which do you think should be retired: the damsel in distress or the femme fatale?

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Personally, I think both tropes should be retired because of their misogynist implications. What do you think?
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Re: Which do you think should be retired: the damsel in distress or the femme fatale?

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I vote neither, I have been both (metaphorically)

I agree that both have been done to death, no pun intended, but they can be well written as well.

So rather than retire either I would rather retire some of the atrocious treatments of banal writers.
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