"As long as men have
written female characters, entertainment has been packed with girls
whose individuality is just a means for some tiresome hero to work out
his own ennui. From William Shakespeare's Juliet Capulet to Truman
Capote's Holly Golightly, the characters' uniqueness was like an
ideological rib-eye that the down-on-his-luck hero could feast on to
thrive and prosper in his own life. These idiosyncratic muses were
finally given a common name in 2007:
The "Manic Pixie Dream Girl" — and now, in 2013, it's time to put the term to rest."
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