[[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/discussion.php?id=r5l7rt1j&trope=StepfordSmiler From YKTTW]]

{{Earnest}}: Apparently yes. I always wondered how this was done.

{{Po8}}: Wha? It looks like the referent was deleted here.
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{{Pro-Mole}}: "The brainwashed Ju Dee's (Pronounced just like Judy's) from AvatarTheLastAirbender. They're mentally ''literal'' Stepford Wives." So, they ''think'' they come from Stepford?... let's change it to ''practical''.

%%drop revision: [002] 05/11/07 at 05:10 AM by Pro-Mole
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->Some readers may describe ''any'' {{Housewife}} raising her own children as a StepfordSmiler [[YouSayGirlLikeABadThing on very little or no evidence]], bringing in the UnfortunateImplications about "staying at home = women being slaves of [[TheUnfairSex those evil men]].

{{fleb}}: ...I've never seen this. StepfordSmiler is a pretty objective and recognizable trope easily distinguishable from the normal {{Housewife}}.
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{{Po8}}: I added "Mixed-Gender Examples" at the bottom, but it's a pretty stupid supercategory name. I think it highlights that the breakup is kind of arbitrary and weird. Perhaps it would be better to just do "Female Examples" and "Other Examples"?
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Is there an official term for this phenomenon - where a person hides deep insecurity or even psychological harm behind an artificial public persona? Or is TvTropes the first to categorize and name this type of thing?
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{{Aline}}: I took off this part:
*Ivan Braginsky is the personification of the Russian nation and its people in AxisPowersHetalia. A sweet and cheery HuskyRusskie, he dreams of the day everyone stops fighting... because he will have crushed them beneath the hammer and sickle and all will be one with Russia. Type C like you would not believe, combined with PsychopathicManchild and Yandere to the max.
Mainly because it was in the ''Female'' examples, and there was already an entry for the male ones.