Topic on Talk:Jerkass Woobie

So you could call a non-villainous character like Garfield a jerkass woobie (although the jerk - with a heart of gold - is more prominent in his case). However, the expression "jerkass woobie" is too bad an insult for most tropers that they don't even dare adding such rather lovable fictional characters as examples, let alone any real-life example.

Sorry, I didn't know that "woobie" is grossly condescending. At least not until I read a few psychology articles about pity and that being pitied is actually rather condecending to an average adult human. I thought the addition of the word "woobie" would somewhat alleviate the insult "jerkass", as the addition "with a heart of gold" does.

After all, relatively benign people like John Lennon have been called jerks on that site. And John Lennon is definitely not somebody many people would call 'evil'. (Although the man who murdered him might qualify for this trope here.)

Concerning Asperger Syndrome, whichs notion has caused heavy protest - I probably have to say here that I have it myself. Also no offense meant to people with paranoia and borderline personality disorder - some of them may be nasty, but they don't deserve being equated to villains. Just because I often have a foot-in-mouth tendency as above, I wouldn't like being called evil either.

The explanation was just misleading for me. One could also say "No real life examples, please - calling somebody this is rude and condescending." Or something similar.