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Author: Wii

Jun 17th 2012 at 8:09:27 PM

...I cannot muster any other immediate reaction to this beyond "No. Just... No."

This has the exact same problems that Feminine Fear does, so if it was meant as a solution to the issue with that proposal, it's completely misguided. Feminine Fear's main problem is that it ''just isn't a trope'', and this isn't either. It's an AudienceReaction '''at best''', and can't be properly used as one either; to quote what I've said on the Feminine Fear page (with reversed genders), "even if it were made into one of those (an AudienceReaction), all it could be is 'this scared/frightened/disturbed affected me, and I'm a man, and I think because I'm a man it was a stronger reaction than that of a woman's.'"

Feminine/Masculine Fear are not trope-worthy; they are far, far too subjective, sex-specific/sexually divisive, and inflammatory by nature. What they need to be is about creative intent backed by WordOfGod or InUniverse [[DiscussedTrope discussions]] about the vulnerabilities/fears of the sexes, or whatever else. With regards to men, we could have a trope for things like that obnoxiously offensive Doctor Pepper Ten commercial, or for say a film that the director has stated was intended to be emotionally evocative primarily to men, or even something about things like the women of "The Talk" laughing about how Catherine Kieu Becker castrated her husband - see here if you weren't interested in being proud of being human today: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wP4VeMJp9pE&t=6m07s - and having a lot of joking fun at the man's expense. Those are all things that could somewhere hold the essence to a trope. This just doesn't. So, we need to refocus on WordOfGod or InUniverse examples.