Misleading Name: Straw Prude

Based on the name, you would assume that the trope deals with a portrayal of prudishness as a negative trait. Based of the examples / descrtiption, it seems to be about using "prude" as an insult while portraying the act of calling them prudes is the negative act.

Straw Prude found in: 9 articles, excluding discussions.

Since January 1, 2011 this article has brought 1 person to the wiki from non-search engine links.

(Note that six of these pages are categories. Only one is a work, and without having seen the film I cannot tell if it is missuse.)

Perhaps we could try custom-titling it to Straw "Prude"?

Disregaurd. I don't know what I'm talking about.

edited 6th Jan '12 6:01:06 PM by DrStarky

^^ That won't fix it.

The "Straw X" naming convention is a particular group of tropes: those where a character of X characteristic or position is set up simply to be made to look bad (defeated, made to look stupid, proved to be wrongWrongWRONG) for having the characteristic or holding the position. This one doesn't fit that family. It's just a pointless snowclone.

There were only five replies to the YKTTW, two of which were objections to either the name, the definition or both, despite being open for 15 days.

Kill it.

edited 6th Jan '12 7:28:52 PM by Madrugada

Cut it. It has a bad name. An unclear definition, and almost no examples. If someone wants to do something with the concept they're better off starting from scratch again in the YKTTW.

Cut it.

I didn't notice how bad the examples and usage were. Cutting sounds fine.

I was the one who sponsored this trope, and I'm fine with cutting it.

(Then again, it wasn't my idea in the first place. Some guy was talking about this trope in another thread, and I was like, "sure, lets make a trope page for that".)

If we had more examples, I'd prefer that we took the effort to find a better title. But with only four examples after all this time, it's simply not worth the effort. So, unless someone come up with a good title (or more examples) pretty much right away, just chop it.

Hmm... Should we have a standardized title for in-universe straw? The current straw family of tropes is about the author building a strawman. Characters making strawmen out of each other is a quite different phenomenon. With tropes such as Strawman Political, one can simply say "in-universe example". But when a trope is about characters misrepresenting each other. What to call that?

Actually, this whole trope is just "Sour Prudes, invoked in-universe without proper in-universe justification". Which, quite frankly, is the same thing as "Sour Prudes, Invoked".

While some people may feel strongly about such injustice, the fact that the trope never got off the ground strongly indicate that it doesn't need it's own page. Lets just list the examples as "invoked" on the other trope page, and be done with it. I have saved the Straw Prude page to my harddrive, so I can salvage the examples later. Cutlisting now.

It's been cut.