“You Hurt the One You Love”: Toxic Ideas in Romantic Movies
7 min readJan 10, 2019
We love romances for their fateful meet-cutes, awkward family situations, and epic confessions of love. The more implausible a plot, the more we adore it. We, too, wonder if we could find true love at a coffee shop or unlock our true selves in a relationship.
And yet, romances, especially romantic comedies, rely upon conventions and archetypes that reflect a very…
