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The Dead Wife Trope Is Back With A Vengeance. What Are We Doing?!

By Jan 10th
11 of the Best Enemies-to-Lovers Romances Sure To Get Sparks Flying

By May 29th
‘Superman & Lois’ Has a Fridging Problem

By May 15th
Did the Washington Post Seriously Decide to Focus on What E. Jean Carroll Was Wearing?

By May 10th
Can We All Agree to Let These Toxic Plus-Size Romance Novel Tropes Die?

By Dec 29th
11 of the Most Iconic Femme Fatales in Cinema

By Aug 5th
The Trope is the Point: How The Northman Uses Hamlet to Critique Traditional Masculinity

By Apr 24th
The Final Girl Trope in Horror Movies, Explained

By Mar 29th
After Callouts for Ableist Tropes & Language, Author Thankfully Delays Book Release

By Mar 14th
Is “The Chosen One” Really Played Out?

By Jan 1st
How Gossip Girl 2.0 Subverted One of the Most Problematic Teen Drama Tropes

By Aug 16th
Ask the Mary Sues: Let’s Talk Reluctant Partners and the ‘Enemies to Friends’ Trope

By Mar 20th
Please, Batwoman, Do Literally Anything Else Besides Killing Kate Kane

By Jun 9th
Atlanta Newspaper Is Rightfully Outraged Over Clint Eastwood Movie Richard Jewell’s Depiction of Their Female Reporter

By Dec 10th
Stranger Things Sure Loves to Sacrifice Those Lovable Side Characters

By Jul 15th
This Video Shows How The Big Bang Theory Tries to Make Misogyny Look “Adorkable”

By Sep 2nd
Watch: Science Fiction and the Problem with the “Born Sexy Yesterday” Trope

By Apr 30th
There’s Another Terrible Beauty and The Beast Trope We’re Not Talking About

By Mar 12th
Hey, Military Science Fiction Authors: Stop It With the Tropes Already

By Nov 10th
Stop Calling Romance Novels “Just” Love Stories—They’re So Much More

By Nov 1st