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Courtesy link to the TLP pls?
Gorgeous Greek does exist though. And we do have Foreign Fanservice for general depiction of foreigners as exotic and sexy. It's a thing in media and story-telling.
I personally don't think that Finno-Ugric Fanservice is frequent enough to be a separate trope from Foreign Fanservice.
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There is no reason why this discussion can't be held on the draft.
^ Thanks. I did bring the issue up over there, but wasn't sure the Trope sponsor was sympathetic to the objections. Looks like those points have gotten voiced on the draft now as well.
A poster on the TLP has proposed a trope which I have serious reservations about. It’s called Finno-Ugric Fanservice and attempts to lump together Finnish, Estonian, Hungarian, and Mordovian examples of Fanservice, including several real life examples. The real life examples strike me as a problem for starters, and I’m not especially sold on this particular grouping for the reasons the troper is arguing.
There’s a broader question here, though. Part of their rationale is that tropes such as Sensual Slavs and Gorgeous Greeks exist (the latter in fact does not exist). I’m not even sold on the need for these tropes, honestly. Otherwise, we could end up with dozens of Fanservice trope proposals for every country and ethnic group imaginable. I’m not at all a fan of this possibility.
I’m thinking this proposed trope is a non-starter, and that the Sensual Slavs example mentioned above should be reconsidered as well.
Thoughts?
Edited by BoltDMC