Another thing that both pieces failed to address is the trope of men who make women come alive; however, if women accomplish a similar feat, they're encouraged to seem nonthreatening. Think about Lawrence Selden in The House of Mirth or Henry Higgins in Pygmalion versus the Manic Pixie Dream Girls in the Onion article. Liberating someone is not necessarily a negative thing, and what irritates me is that both of those articles ignore the fact that these women have to portray themselves as Amazing Manic Pixies because otherwise everyone would be terrified of them.

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