Does anyone else find the “dad not approving of his daughter’s boyfriend trope” to be terrible and annoying most of the time?
okay, so, there are many tv tropes that i don’t like but this one is particularly annoying, it usually goes like this: girl introduces her boyfriend to her parents, the mom is happy but the dad doesn’t like him. the most common reasons to why the dad doesn’t like him are usually about the boy being a bit of a loser, being clumsy or having a humble job, sometimes the dad doesn’t like the boyfriend because he’s like some weird guy with tattoos and with a motorcycle which is less irritating even tho it’s still annoying. in the first three cases the dad is just a jerk, i’ve seen like once this movie that i’ll never watch again about this man meeting his girlfriend‘s dad and he would always make him nervous and treat him like a loser and be mean to him because he wasn’t some super chad guy (my point was proven when later in the movie the dad seemed to like his daughter’s ex because he was more “man-like”) i know that it was supposed to be funny but it just pissed me off because i had to witness this poor guy who is also really sweet getting bullied by this asshole of a man who “doesn’t approve” of him. another thing that i don’t like but like about this trope is the fact that it sounds sexist, i don’ want to be the type of person who calls everything that involves a man not approving of a girl’s choice sexist but in most of these situations the daughter is an adult and she is old and mature enough to make her own choices, so it sounds just slightly sexist to me but tell me what you think. another case where it was really annoying was in “The Big Bang Theory” with Howard’s interactions with his girlfriend’s dad who is super fricking mean to him because he’s physically weak and bad at “man-stuff” and he doesn’t give a shit about the fact that he’s actually a really smart guy. anyways this trope is annoying because it always ends up being “dad doesn’t like daughter’s boyfriend because he’s not a real man and he doesn’t make lots of money” and because it’s basically portraying bullying as “funny”, it sometimes makes me think how would the dad react if his daughter’s got a “manly“ boyfriend who actually turns out to be a jerk, tell me what you think.