#2: Jan 6th 2017 at 2:29:16 AM
Currently under discussion in Trope Talk. I'll close this and recommend that discussion continue there. If a need for repair is established, call a moderator to move the Trope Talk thread to TRS.
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Note: This is a continuation of that https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/query.php?parent_id=48508&type=att
. I tried to create a forum for this before, and it was shut down, but then I took it over to Trope Talk https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=14830360230A53777900&page=1
and now I have a clearer idea about it, and some support, so please hear me out. Even if you don't agree, can we please have a discussion about it before you completely shut it down?
As it stands now, Your Cheating Heart is not a trope. It's just "cheating occurs." There's nothing specific about it. It's not a storytelling convention... it's just a thing. It's a topic, not a trope.
(For a simile, there are several different tropes that bad parents fall under; they're not all the same—you've got Abusive Parents, Parental Neglect, Archnemesis Dad, When You Coming Home, Dad?, ect. Same with crying: It can be used a lot of different ways, and so it's an index, not a trope, even though it is story relevant.)
As a topic, I propose that Your Cheating Heart is turned into an index, where these specific cheating tropes are listed, as well as any others that I missed:
Good Adultery, Bad Adultery isn't really a trope either: Sympathetic Adulterer is a trope, and Bad Adultery is a default. (The badness is inherent in the word "cheating," and so it's not a trope any more than Bad Murder is.) I think Good Adultery, Bad Adultery could either be deleted, or turned into a sliding scale.
edited 2nd Jan '17 11:25:24 AM by Eievie