[ SECRET POST #5199 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5199 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, it comes originally from a genre (which never gets called a genre because the writers were mostly "literary" in spite of writing a large volume of collective work using the same tropes and plots) someone called "bad penis confessional." A synopsis, (ahem):

"Oh, woe is me, I'm a hugely successful artistic figure but I've lost my will for life. My wife and children are distant from me. (Because I stopped doing any emotional labor for them after the honeymoon.) My career has become a grind of producing the same derivative work. But wait! Who is this comely underpaid avant-garde muse half my age! Look at how creative she is! (Because no one values her work.) In becoming infatuated with her, I feel new creative juices (in my shorts)!"

In other words, authors were getting woodies writing as if they were Woody Allen. And there was a fuckton of this back in the 80s and 90s that ended up produced into movies.

(Last Tango in Halifax has a nice takedown of this trope with John/Judith.)

[(Anonymous)]

The coiner of the term has an interesting article on disowning it about a year after:
https://www.salon.com/2014/07/15/im_sorry_for_coining_the_phrase_manic_pixie_dream_girl/

[(Anonymous)]

*7 years after coining it

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