Her Campus at St. Andrews
Not Your Manic Pixie Dream Girl: Analyzing the MPDG Trope
You’ve seen it before countless times. The female lead with blue hair, ripped jeans, and a cigarette takes the male protagonist by the hand...
Riverdale and the Student/Teacher Relationship Trope
The CW has yet again produced another guilty pleasure show that is sure to keep me occupied on a Thursday night. From the creators of...
Sweet/Vicious: Rape Revenge Trope or Something More?
My Tuesday nights are usually saved for working and playing catch-up on my sleep, but this week something else caught my attention. MTV has...
The Fallacy of the Manic Pixie Dream Girl
There was a time in my life where I wanted to be Ramona Flowers. She was so cool in Scott Pilgrim vs. The World with her colored hair, her...
Why The Dystopian “It” Girl Needs to Go
Over the past several years as a teenage bookworm, I know that I’ve read at least two or three dozen dystopian young adult novels. When I...