> the bad boy ends up with the popular girl after watching st elmos fire and fast times at ridgemont high (both shit propaganda movies that goes against the narrative that media was better in olden times), i've come to the conclusion that the bad boy trope is some hollywood cuck fetish, it's so over the top and extreme that there's some kind of humiliation aspect attached to it (the producers want to humiliate normal guys and also humiliate the pretty girl). in real life there are women who go for criminals (these are always trashy girls), and there are guys that girls call bad boys (but these are just normal guys who have lots of options with girls and date around), but the bad boy portrayed in these movies in just an awful person who in real life would be isolated.
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