pittsburghmuggle
Since: Jan, 2010
Feb 28th 2014 at 1:43:51 PM
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Maybe we need two different tropes for "Black is bigger" and "black is better", because "Blacks have big penises" and "big penises are better" seem to be two different tropes.
"Freedom is not a license for chaos" -Norton Juster's The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics
KingZeal
Since: Oct, 2009
Feb 28th 2014 at 2:02:14 PM
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I don't think splitting the two would mean much.
And really, I think all of this can just be fixed by keeping the implications of the trope concisely spelled out while at the same time turning down the snark and negativity. We could also move some of the unnecessary stuff to the Analysis page, but I don't think that would be necessary.
Valhelm
Since: Dec, 2009
Sep 3rd 2012 at 10:36:21 AM
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Could somebody index this? I'm not quite sure how to do so, but I think it could go in Unfortunate Implications and Sex Tropes.
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Telcontar
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Since: Feb, 2012
Sep 3rd 2012 at 10:58:14 AM
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Just add it to the lists on Sex Tropes, Race Tropes, Stereotype, and Bigger Is Better.
That was the amazing part. Things just keep going.
I think the trope description is a little too much. It pretty much drops describing the trope and simply hops right onto the negative aspects. It's not that those aspects may not be true (I'm not doing the research right now, just looking at this trope description as a visitor to the trope page would do), but this description spends 80% of its time assuming the reader knows what is being talked about and talking about how bad the history is instead of explaining the trope. Evidently the writer felt very strongly about this - which is fine - but I think those feelings are coloring the description too much.
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