Comment Re: Sweet, can we stop talking about it now? (Score 1) 250
Tropes are not evil or negative.
Calling them as such is like saying grammar causes violence, or spelling teaches boys to rape.
Tropes are literary tools, just like spelling and grammar are. And just like how only certain combinations of letters in our alphabet make words.
Plot points can only combine in certain ways and keep the story readable. These are tropes and some tropes are more popular than others, damsel in distress is one of them because it's simple.