How is the existence of bald eagles a trope? This seems like People Sit On Chairs.
edited 29th May '18 5:14:15 PM by TheMountainKing
Ronnie
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The current laconic is this "The use of Bald Eagles or their plumage for other raptors".
what is meant by “the use of bald eagles”?
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There's probably room for a general trope on patriotic symbolism, but bald eagle imagery by itself is too narrow to be healthy, since most examples would be little more than, "There's a bald eagle here."
edited 30th May '18 5:03:55 AM by Fighteer
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That laconic needs to change.
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Elder statesman
The current Laconic suggests that it's trying to be an "All X Are Y" trope. In this case, perhaps All Eagles Are Bald, "An eagle or other large raptor is depicted as a bald eagle when it logically should not be."
edited 30th May '18 8:11:52 PM by Gideoncrawle
Bigotry in the name of inclusion is still bigotry.
Okay, but what does that mean? Like, a bird is said to be another species of eagle but is “played” by a bald eagle? Is that really so common?
Elder statesman
I have no idea. I do know that "All X are Y" tropes in general tend to attract a lot of PSOC misuse from people who haven't bothered to read the trope description.
Bigotry in the name of inclusion is still bigotry.
Ronnie
As I mention earlier I did place the proposed trope in the Trope Launch Pad
, where several examples can be seen.
It’s literally just a list of all bald eagles in fiction. That’s People Sit On Chairs.
So here's the thing I've seen a lot of Bald Eagles; as well as other birds given the iconic look, in popular culture. Yet do not fall under the Eagleland trope since they have nothing to do with the US. Is there a possible new trope here? When I tried to make it most people just claimed that it's still Eagleland.