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My pet peeve this week; the fake tits trope. I get it, you want the town bimbo to seem cheap and trashy. The competition needs to seem shallow and silly, so what better way to showcase that than sending her to the plastic surgeon for oversized, overpriced balloons?
Except I have implants, and so do a lot of other women.
I had three kids, lost all the baby weight, got in good shape and was left with saggy, limp bags of skin on my chest…for the rest of my life. Frankly, they were deformed, grotesque and they made me unhappy, so we spent thousands of dollars reconstructing my chest so that I could feel good in my body.
This is all aside from the fact that many women get implants because of double mastectomies, injuries, or many many other reasons. I get that this is only one facet of the character that you’re writing but maybe find a different way to explain that she’s fake?
Sincerely,
A reader who’s being just a little more vulnerable today.
Oh yeah I hate that too. Another similar issue I see is that the FMC’s competition wears fake lashes or fake nails and refer to them as talons
In the book still beating, the rival is FMC’s sister
And both FMC and MMC keep mentioning sister is shallow
Okay MMC, why are you dating this sister for 15 years then
Yeah it’s not fair at all. Total bullshit and definitively misogynist
The other way around too when FMC is said to be homely and needs to make more effort on appearance , which I don’t see happen as often
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