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Previous Trope Repair Shop thread: Needs Help, started by ThisIsNotATheorem on Aug 7th 2012 at 11:27:21 PM

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman

So there is this example.

• Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, current President of Liberia, and the first elected female leader in Africa. She has to be tough as nails; there's the threat of a coup.

As written it seems like a Zero Context example, I don't know enough to fix it. I do know this is outdated already, she is no longer President of Liberia, and this has no relation to the coup, it was simply term limits.

• "(Averted by Brienne of Tarth, who is more like Virginity Makes You Stupid, but that's another matter.)"

Okay...then why is this listed? I'm going to remove it ASAP, but this entry just annoys me. It's just so random and has nothing to do with the rest of the page. If it's an aversion and "another matter", then it shouldn't have been added in the first place.

I'm a feminist whose life was ruined by TV Tropes.

Hey, is it possible to add a 'Troper Tales' section to this entry? I work in an electric steel mill and the meltshop manager is a woman. Honestly. And she is the type of woman who can get shit done.

I have a problem with this line:

natural childbirth is the second-most painful experience anyone can have (the most painful is cluster headaches, but so few people get those, it's really not worth mentioning)

I suppose torture, evisceration, rape, and any number of other horrors aren't as bad as child-birth or cluster headaches? I have trouble believing that.

Abnormalitycomplex

I think this is a cool trope. For one thing when well done it can be attractive though intimidating and even inspire a bit of a "crush" for a character. The danger is that in unskillful hands it can make a character into a Straw Feminist . But when well done it is quite cool.

Edited by jasontaylor