I believe Rabin (who coined the term) later clarified that the defining characteristic of an MPDG is that she doesn't have her own story arc; she exists to "fix" a male character or help him find meaning or rediscover himself or whatever. For example, Clementine from Eternal Sunshine… may act impulsively, wear woolly…

Immediately!

her feelings for him only got serious when he kept inviting her to hang out

Reminded me of a crap 90s British comedy called Staggered, in which Martin Clunes has his heart ripped out by his bride-to-be. I'm guessing it wasn't based on that.

Hover over the avatar to preview their profile. @RainbowKite:disqus is a "fat, happy, middle-aged man".

The logical corollary of that is that Ivy League students can be as offensive as they want because they're rich. Just as long as they're ALL rich - which we can presume they are - then there's no problem!

Once I've seen something twice I can quote most of the jokes from it. It's not a good ability to have. Comedy gets stale for me really quickly and the ability to pull out quickfire TV quotes butters few parsnips outside of this site.

I don't think she's seen it as about educating people about victims, so much as offering a different take on victimhood. There aren't many narratives about victimhood - misery-lit books and rape-revengesploitation films spring to mind, and they're all pretty much interchangeable. This is a story we haven't heard…

I spend WAY too much of my time on the liberal web, and literally the only time I've ever come across people like that is from Right-wingers forwarding me links explaining to me what "the SJW movement" is about. (Obviously, as an SJW I need them to explain to me what my position is.) Apparently, if a spoiled…

As these jokes get older, do you think they'll just get even staler, or do you think eventually we'll say "I remember 2017, when this came out, and that's exactly what it was like back then"?

Try new… PROGRESSIVISM

I always liked the way Xan's teenage b***hiness used to clash with Kimmy's arrested development. Kimmy's normally so lovely to everyone, it was fun to have someone she could be mean to occasionally.

I felt the shame just writing it. My thought process was roughly as follows:

Not if they had regular men's and women's nights.

Read again, friend.

If there were, that would be clearly acceptable on a quid-pro-quo basis. But nobody's interested in doing that because it's unlikely to be good for business. Doing a theme night is a financial gamble; he should offer to underwrite the cost of Men's Night and then maybe if that gets off the ground he can build an ice…

Are those "alternative quotations"?

Often, yes. To them I send Margaret Atwood's (attrib uncertain) classic: "Men are afraid that women will humiliate them. Women are afraid that men will kill them."

Well we used to just call you what you were, but your feelings get all hurt when we do that, so as good liberals in this PC age, we have to keep up with the new lingo to avoid microaggressing you. You self-identify how you want. What do you want us to call you? Pick a word to ruin, we've got thousands of them.

Since we're defining the term, it's worth lobbing out that there are some actual MRAs that do good work and have valid points to make, though they're always in limited circumstances and often individual cases. Unfortunately, the vast majority of people who identify as MRAs draw false equivalencies between those cases…