Sour Prudes: Difference between revisions

Often a tragic character portrayed as being overly prudish as a kind of [[Sour Grapes]]: "I deny myself my sexuality, so why don't these people do the same thing?". Thus "Sour Prudes". For extra irony, Alice might be pulling the [[Entitled to Have You]] card, based on being such a good girl. This can be especially tragic if she lives in a society where women are economically dependent on men, making her come across as justified -- orjustified—or at least as a [[Troubled Sympathetic Bigot]] who is only trying to survive in [[No Woman's Land]]. In some cases, this might go hand in hand with [[Marital Rape License]]. For example, let's say that Alice is outraged at Charlene for saying that oral sex is okay -- andokay—and that the real reason for this outrage is that Alice fears that Charlene's opinion may encourage Alice's husband Bob to try to pressure Alice into having oral sex.

''If'' this Alice has taken a vow of chastity (and she usually hasn't), she might ''also'' be a [[Strawman Political]] of the conservative kind. Note that a character who chose to be chaste -- withoutchaste—without being a [[Jerkass]] about it -- isit—is ''not'' this trope. If a character is accused of being this trope by another character, without being portrayed as such by the narrative, it counts as "[[Playing with a Trope|invoked]]" and does not go on character sheet pages.

* Yozora from ''[[Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai]]'' will assert her superiority over [[Sitcom Arch Nemesis|Sena]] by railing at any chance against her immoral behaviour (shamelessly shaking down her admirers and playing [[Eroge]] and [[Dating Sim|Dating Sims]]s, mostly). Resident [[Lovable Sex Maniac]] Rika actually uses this against Yozora whenever [[Insult Backfire|she tries]] to pull the same attitude on her.

* ''[[Bitchy Butch]]'' never seem to quit whining about supposedly prudish women, mostly because she's frustrated that they won't leave their boyfriends and start having sex with ''her'' instead. Ironically, it's hinted that Butchy herself has been quite the [[Sour Prudes]] to her previous girlfriends (only hinted, since the stories are all told from [[Unreliable Narrator|her biased perspective]] where [[Never My Fault|everything was always their fault and never hers]]) .

{{quote| '''Letty''': I smell ''[sniffs]'' skanks. Why don't you ladies pack it up before I leave tread marks on you faces?}}