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Author: helterskelter

Apr 10th 2013 at 2:27:52 PM

''The description even flat-out says that the people don't matter: "Often the choice is one-sided, where the main dilemma is not who she ends up with, but what lifestyle"''

It does say often. Often it is about this lifestyles when it comes to female-led love triangles. Not always, and you'll always have exceptions.

''Also, why does the man have to be "very" feminine?''

What it actually says:

"A good rule of thumb is whether the man seems very feminine "

[[http://www.thefreedictionary.com/rule of thumb Rule of thumb definition.]] It is a good rule of thumb. I'm thinking of works like Grease 2 which (while I don't think actually had a love triangle, and isn't this trope) had a more traditionally female role given to the guy, and his love interest was actually a ''dangerous'' lady in the same way Danny Zuko was a dangerous guy. She's not just "exotic".

The thing is, you are assuming ''literally every'' love triangle with two guys is this trope. That there's actually no exception. But if they don't fit the trope, then they ''aren't'' the trope. This is a problem BettyAndVeronica suffers from, actually. It should go through TRS to deal with that.

In this case: "so that would make the rich man the gentleman and the servant the scoundrel" would be RichSuitorPoorSuitor. It wouldn't be this trope. I can add something warning people not to simply add every love triangle they can think of.

''(Incidentally, there is already a Spear Counterpart listed for Betty and Veronica: Cock Fight)''

Which anyone is free to edit, regardless of what the pages say. It was in fact added long after both pages had launched. It is not a SpearCounterpart. I can see why it was added, but it's simply a related trope.

@acrobox: Perhaps. It's hard to say--after all, an important part of this choice is that in BettyAndVeronica both choices are actually relatively safe. One is just more exotic and has sex appeal. The reason this often becomes about lifestyles seems to be because women often have a 'dangerous' suitor instead. So I'm not sure what the DoubleStandard would be in this case. Women have dangerous love interests?