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All Girls Aren’t Clumsy. They’re Just Written That Way By Lazy, Lazy Hollywood.

Hollywood, I love you. But Hollywood, you’re lazy. You constantly (and pretty much exclusively) use the “adorable and clumsy pretty girl” trope to humanize your leading ladies. Why? Surely there are other ways to show me these beautiful women are “human”?As a result of your laziness, we audiences are presented with cookie-cutter filmmaking, boring films,…

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