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Stuff Mom Never Told You

Fictional Women Around the World: Holiday Movie Edition

Stuff Mom Never Told You

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.24.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

The business woman who returns home to her small town. The mother who puts everyone first. The - gasp - single woman who needs to find love. Holiday movies are full of tropes. We highlight a few in this merry, special episode.

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0:00.0

Hey, this is Annie.

0:06.1

And Samantha.

0:07.0

And welcome to Steph and Ever Told You, a production of iHeart Radio.

0:18.4

And today, welcome to another sub, sub, sub, sub segment fictional women around the world.

0:23.6

This is a special one because as it comes out, it is Christmas Eve. Happy Christmas Eve to anyone who celebrates.

0:30.3

Happy Christmas Eve. Happy Christmas to whoever. Happy day to whoever. Good luck. Because of that, I thought I'd do something a little difference for this fictional women around the world,

0:40.4

and we would just talk about some popular tropes around women in holiday movies.

0:44.9

Because there are a lot of them.

0:47.8

Starting with The Workaholic.

0:51.9

And we briefly discussed this in one of my recent happy hours about how I feel like I'm sort of been put into this trope.

1:01.2

This is the woman who puts her career first, and now her life is meaningless.

1:07.6

She has to go home for Christmas for some reason and then finds out it's all a lie.

1:15.9

Here we go.

1:18.1

She finds the meaning of Christmas usually because of the related trope, the hunk who shows her life is more than work.

1:26.9

And they're always like a carpenter?

1:29.1

Yeah.

1:30.0

Are they work at like the local store and they have, they wear a lot of plaids.

1:34.2

Or they own a bookstore.

1:36.8

That's been the go-to.

1:38.5

Those two things.

1:41.7

And I guess I should put a disclaimer here.

1:44.6

I have seen plenty of holiday movies, but I'm not like, I haven't delved into Hallmark at all.

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