Mommy Issues/Headscratchers: Difference between revisions

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** Because, [[Unfortunate Implications]] ahoy, the only male characters with [[Mommy Issues]] are either infantile Mama's Boys, Norman Bates, or Scarecrow. It's not acceptable for a main, good character to have [[Mommy Issues]] and still be awesome ([[Dead Little Sister|unless of course said issues stem from her death]]). As for women ... well ... that really doesn't make sense, but I would argue it is somewhat more common to see women with mothers who left, were overbearing to the point of being psychologically damaging, or outright abusive. (Mary's mother on [[In Plain Sight]] is an alcoholic and a drama queen who gives Mary no end of problems, even as an adult, Splice feature a main character who was the daughter of an abusive mother and started acting rather abusively towards her sort of daughter as well, Olivia Benson from Law and Order: SVU had an alcoholic mother that she had a complicated relationship with, etc.) Maybe because [[Double Standard Abuse (Female on Male)|Abuse Is Okay When ItsIt's Female On Male]], even if the male is a little boy with no power in the relationship and the female is an adult. Like I said, [[Unfortunate Implications]] ahoy.