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[elle_white]

 Wow, TV Tropes, changing the trope "Pink Bishoujo Ghetto" to Improbably Female Cast isn't cool. It implies that anything with a lady heavy cast is "improbable," and something that should be avoided.  Moderators have said it only applies to cases were it would be unrealistic, like in a military unit during a time when women didn't serve on the front lines. But, the trope originally just referred to anything with a large cast of women, not the improbability of such a cast.  

The male equivalent was changed from "Blue Bishounen Ghetto" to Cast Full Of Pretty Boys, which... has the same meaning. A trope that referred to the large amount of representation women had in a piece of fiction was changed to point out the implausibility of that representation. Considering that women don't often have a great amount of representation in the media, this comes off as a little disturbing. And TV Tropes is a large and influential site. I've enjoyed visiting it, and I've used the trope names from there in the past, but they've been disappointing lately. 

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[bookblather]

DDDD: That is not cool, TV Tropes. I just... I really do like them, and they're very entertaining, but stuff like this... I dunno, it makes me sad.

[elle_white]

I have mixed feelings about TV Tropes. I've had lots of fun and discovered some great shows while browsing through the site. But, it's always had its problems, and it seems to be catering to the dudebro culture even more lately. :(

[aamalie]

Wow that's... pretty terrible. I mean, I get why they would want to do away with the use "ghetto" because that has some... connotations too, but. They did not move to better, just another kind of terrible apparently.

[elle_white]

It's good they removed "ghetto" from the title. But yeah, this change isn't an improvement, just another kind of terrible, as you said.

[pseudo_tsuga]

A lot of the people in charge are sexist asshats, sadly. There's lots of tropes out there that are horrible on gender.