Perfect Character
S. Jae-Jones on the Perfect Boy:
The problem with the Perfect Boy is that he never fucks up. Ever. He’s always perfectly good-looking, perfectly the best at whatever it is he’s does, perfectly sensitive and attuned to the female character’s emotional needs, perfectly considerate (even when he’s been an asshole, he is SECRETLY perfectly considerate–really! he just loves you so much he needs to hide his good side!), perfectly mannered, perfectly smooth and suave, perfectly ANNOYING. That’s not attractive; that’s grotesque. It’s like someone cobbled together a Frankenstein monster of attractiveness traits, but this monster isn’t just scary–he’s also SCARILY BORING.
