Tropes that became problematic

[u/KalzK]

The Persistent Suitor: A guy who is after the girl and just wont take no for an answer. Nowadays we just call stalking and harassment, but it used to be romantic. Example: The Notebook (2004), Noah asks Allie out while she's on a date with another man. She refuses, but he threatens to let go and fall unless she agrees to go out with him.

Comedic Woman On Man Violence: Mostly seen in anime, recently it has decreased a lot but years back every show had a woman hitting a guy and showed it as funny. Example: Toradora!, where the quintessential tsundere, Taiga, beats up the MC regularly.

Kid Bags Adult Baddie: I remember a few of these, sometimes it was to show how cool and awesome a kid was because an adult woman fell for him, now it's just seen as problematic shit. Example: Blank Check, the woman likes the kid and kisses him telling him to look for her in 10 years.

[u/Beautiful-Cup4161]

The casual pervert who does stuff like grope women as a personality trait but you're generally supposed to like them and react to their antics in a "oh you silly rascal!" kind of way

Fell out of fashion for a good reason

[u/Lanerlan → u/[deleted]]

Inuyasha was created by a woman.

[u/King_Of_BlackMarsh → u/Lanerlan]

Doesn't clarify why it should be funny

[u/El-Drunko → u/Lanerlan]

That woman also gave us maybe the worst comedic pervert in Happosai and that's no easy feat when his 80s rivals included Master Roshi

[u/Emergency_Tea7637 → u/El-Drunko]

Ranma 1/2 is my favorite anime but happosai is genuinely such a dogshit character that whenever he shows up the quality takes a nosedive, hes basically all of the worst aspects of master roshi as a person

[u/Beautiful-Cup4161 → u/Lanerlan]

You got downvoted but honestly it's an interesting addition to the conversation to point that out.

Women can still write men who casually grope women and men can still write women who physically abuse men at the slightest misunderstanding.

Why do we do that? Humans are weird. Social conditioning is weird. It's worth thinking about.