She is essential to the male fantasy that even if a guy is boring he deserves a woman who will find him fascinating and perk up his dreary life by forcing him to go skinny-dipping in a stranger’s pool.
Mindy Kaling on the Manic Pixie Dream Girl. [Thanks, Taylor!]
I think Joe might be my “manic pixie dream girl”. Things he’s gotten me to do that I wouldn’t normally do beforehand include…
- Eat sushi
- Ride upside-down roller coasters
- Drive all the way to Darien Lake this summer… three times.
- Go to a waterpark and _have fun_ there
- Watch a Spanish horror movie
I think we still have a long way to go before he convinces me to go skinny-dipping in a stranger’s pool… but still, he fits the Zooey Deschanel in (500) days/Maggie Gylenhaal in Eternal Sunshine/Diane Keaton in Annie Hall stereotype pretty well.
