Snuggled up on the couch on a brisk October Sunday, my boyfriend looked deep into my eyes and whispered sweetly that I was his “Manic Pixie Dream Girl.” This gave me a few instinctual reactive thoughts: 1) This is probably bad news. All that I’ve read and seen about the Manic Pixie Dream Girl is that
"Too many guys think I'm a concept, or I complete them, or I'm gonna make them alive..."
The ladies will always be our favorites.
The ladies will always be our favorites.
We all thought we were the first ones to mismatch our socks.
Say it with me, guys: manic pixie dream girls aren’t real.
There’s always been a specific type of girl who I find the most fascinating in film. She’s the whimsical, dreamy sort of girl who probably doesn’t exist fully in real life –…
You either knew a ukulele girl or you were a ukulele girl.
“This task was appointed to you. And if you do not find a way no one will.”
By Katie Lotz
The term “Manic Pixie Dream Girl” was invented by critic Nathan Rabin, writing in 2007 for the web site The A.V. Club in order to explain his disappointment with Kirsten Dunst’s character in the film Elizabethtown: That bubbly, shallow cinematic creature that exists solely in the fevered imaginations of sensitive writer-directors to teach broodingly soulful young men to embrace life and its infinite mysteries and adventures. While Rabin has rightly brought to light how this Hollywood trope is quite often sexist in its relegation of women to the position of muses who exist to guide the blossoming of male characters, while
Raise your hand if you "HATED" the color pink.
The Manic Pixie Dream Girl deserves more credit than she gets.
Tyra would tell me this is too commercial
In 2005, film critic Nathan Rabin first used the term “Manic Pixie Dream Girl” to describe Kirsten Dunst’s character in the movie Elizabethtown. The Manic Pixie Dream Girl, or MPDG for short, is a character stereotype in which an otherworldly, beautifully shallow female character’s sole purpose in a piece of media is to guide the...
Because you're ~not like other girls~.
