Overused Female Tropes In Movies And TV Shows That Never Happen IRL

We're just as obsessed with chick flicks as the next girl, but we'd be lying to ourselves if we said their plots were parallel to real life. As much as we wish we could be the protagonist of our fave flick, or realities simply don't add up to what she's experiencing. Some of our fave movies are unrealistic AF, and that's okay. The non-realistic aspects are exactly what makes it work in a movie. In an AskWomen thread, women discussed common female tropes in movies that never happen IRL. We never realized just how many female plots have become cliches. Check 'em ot below. 

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    Handwriting - Posted by u/janearcade 11 hours ago What woman-focused trope do you often see in movies/tv shows, but rarely (if ever) in real life?
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    The reason they're so prevalent in movies is because they're meant to be fantasies from our wildest imaginations. 

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    Font - Maleficent_Bunch5702 · 11h The nerdy girl with glasses in the library getting with the quarterback in high school lol
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    The ultimate HS love story. 

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    Human body - janearcade OP · 11h · edited 4h Or the "unpopular girl in school that everyone picks on or ignores, gets a makeover and surprise! She is model-beautiful and now the most popular girl in school."
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    Font - Font - catastrophized · 10h Women thinking that creepy stalker behavior is endearing. Those scripts are 100% written by men.
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    Rectangle - CrushedIntoServitude · 11h There was a movie about two best friends who book their weddings at the same venue and they spend the next few months terrorizing and sabotaging each other in a bid to force the other to cancel ??? WTF. I am so sick of women all secretly hate each other movies.
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    Font - random_582 · 11h Sick girl troupe, rarely ever are women with fatal illnesses finding love before they die
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    Font - palladium422 · 11h Two women having a "cat fight" over a very mediocre man.
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    Font - Zeiserl · 11h The old "oh no she wears the same clothes as I and now we're mortal enemies". I don't see it as much as I see it referenced as a trope. But it's still bullshit.
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    Font - Ok_Store_1983 · 11h All they ever have to talk to each about is their love life or man problems.
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    Font - MaleficentBarnacle60 · 10h Girls who are genuinely supremely awkward and clumsy while being irresistibly beautiful. Gives damsel -in -distress and "pick-me's" vibes.~ think Twilight or maybe 50 Shades of Grey
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    Font - FionaTheFierce · 9h That an attractive woman is horribly mean to all the unattractive women around her. The boyfriend of hot girl is verbally abused by him and falls in love with the dorky "unattractive" girl who helps him pass his math class. They go to prom and it is super romantic and the mean girl and her group of mean girls plot revenge but it backfires and they end up getting publicly shamed. Or something like that
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    Font - GlassHalfDecaf · 7h The skinny and fit looking glutton that hates to workout
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    Font - LithiumPopper · 9h All women want to be writers, especially for a paper or magazine. And their boss is always a man. There are other professions!!!
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    Facial expression - xxivtarotmagic_ · 6h Those Hallmark Christmas movies where a highly ambitious woman with a thriving career gives it all up to marry a hot pastry chef from some small town. I'm sorry but no woman with all of that going for her would throw it all away for a man
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    Font - _No_Soup_For_You__ · 5h Bras and underwear that match.
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