Proper Lady: Difference between revisions

* Lady Catelyn "Cat" Tully-Stark from ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]''. The Tully motto is "Family, Duty, Honor," and those are the words Cat lives by. {{spoiler|Boy, does that bite her and her family in the ass later.}}

** Cersei Lannister is a rare ''evil'' example (who resents and rebels against the 'feminine' parts of the job), and Sansa, Cat's daughter, seems to be one in training.

* ''[[In Death]]'': Played with. Dr. Mira seems to give this off like pheremones. However, it was revealed early on that she had been raped by her stepfather, and she turns out to have flaws. Clarissa Price is a social worker in the story ''Purity In Death'', who is lady-like and beautiful, which seems odd, considering that she works in a job that usually puts lines on someone's face. However, it turns out that she has failed to dot her i's and cross her t's, as well as being a party to murder, but she certainly suffered a [[Villainous Breakdown]] when Eve showed pictures of a teenaged girl who was essentially murdered by the terrorists Price was working for. Avril from ''Origin In Death'' starts off like this. However, she ends up murdering her own husband and helps in murdering people connected to him. Why? Because she is a clone created by her husband and his father, and while she would have lived with that, she found out that her husband had broken his promise to not clone their children (he was treating them as things to be replaced rather than human beings), and so she decided to go [[Mama Bear]] on him and his little science project.

* [[Hopscotch]] Gekrepten, Oliveira's wife/girlfriend/whatever back in Argentina. She immediately accepts him afeter running away to Paris and never complains the fact that he stays all day at her place, never working. Heck, she even takes care of him after the trap incident. Subverted in that, no matter what she does, Horacio will never respect, care or love her because she isn't as intelligent/interesting as La Maga or Talita.

* The Virgin Mary is presented as the epitome of this trope, she being the perfect mother figure (indeed, the mother of Jesus Himself and [[Team Mom|spiritual mother]] to all His followers) and all. She's presented as [[Beauty Equals Goodness|beautiful and graceful]], humble, chaste, wise, and altruistic. She is held up as the perfect woman, and many Christian girls (especially Catholic ones) are encouraged to be more like her.

** Many female Catholic saints also qualify, although many others do subvert. Notably, along with Virgin Mary, they actually were an important part in forming this ideal.

 

* An agency in London gave lessons on how to be a Proper Lady called the "Princess Prep" workshop.