Discarded and Feeling Blue
It was removed by TRS, yeah, because "slapstick, but for women" is redundant.
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Would this argument also apply to Gender Is No Object, another trope bypassing a RL Double Standard?
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^ From a glance it looks like users are mistaking a Discredited Trope for never having been a trope.
Discarded and Feeling Blue
But it was never discredited. It still regularly happens. That doesn't mean it's relevant, though; it's all just Slapstick and always has been.
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The problem wasn't that it was a Discredited Trope, the problem was that it was a list of avertions of an imaginary Omnipresent Trope. "Women are immune to slapstick" is pretty much a Dead Unicorn Trope
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It has left something of a legacy in the video examples, though. Some are clearly made to highlight that it's a girl receiving it.
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Discarded and Feeling Blue
Well, I imagine they were moved from the other trope.
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Recently I've gone to check the Slapstick Knows no Gender trope and noticed it got merged with general Slapstick page.
Why did this happen? Is the "slapstick affecting character regardless of gender" aspect not tropeworthy?
Also the image isn't very illustrative (the actual slapstick is only about to happen) and generally just kind of gross.
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