love triangles are weird

[demeter918]

I think I'm getting old, but I'm always a little mystified by love triangles in fiction. It seems to be most prevalent in young adult fiction, but there's definitely plenty of it everywhere else.

I mean. Come on. It's difficult enough these days to find one person who's just for you; how does one even deal with two? Wouldn't it be incredibly hard to find yourself in love with two people? Yeah, you could say it's 'romantic' or that there's just a part of you that will always be with the other person you didn't choose, but... I don't think that's a good thing.

Love's pretty crap, man. It's like this horrible thing that punches you in the eye and then uppercuts you like a pixelated scene from Street Fighter II when you're staggering back in excruciating pain.

Or this could be the crankyoldmaid in me talking. WHO KNOWS?

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[demeter918.livejournal.com]

This came about because of, haha, Sex and the City 2; there was a group of us watching it and it being KIND OF TERRIBLE aside, we were almost unanimous in thinking - WTF is she thinking?!

There's a lot of female-oriented fiction that also has these problems, and I think the point that started bothering me is that I didn't notice it, really, until recently. It just seemed kind of... normal, par for course. Of course there's a triangle. Of course the woman/girl can't pick until the very end. Of course we're expected to believe that that's normal.

Aaaaand, whut?

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

I wish I could remember being unaware of love triangles. It's one of my LEAST favorite tropes and it is ALL OVER just about every fandom I've ever been in.