Layann Basileh is an Arab-American writer based in Southern California, currently nursing an iced coffee addiction. The 'damsel in distress' trope is a common female character archetype, in which a ...

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The Young and the Restless fans are over Sharon constantly being in distress on the CBS soap. It’s been years of nothing but tears for the character. Another one of Sharon’s kids was in a car accident ...

The star plays a damsel in distress who learns to fight for herself in the new fantasy film, which also stars Robin Wright, Angela Bassett and Nick Robinson. By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief ...

It’s been 13 years since Whit Stillman’s The Last Days Of Disco, but as this trailer for his long-awaited fourth film reveals, not too much has changed in the interim. Stillman is still enamored with ...

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According to a recent study, men prefer to help women in the domestic sphere compared to the business sphere. Male and female adult American subjects in an online study were given a cash prize of $10 ...

Kristy Ambrose has been writing professionally since 2010. She dabbles in various genres, but her favorites are fantasy and science fiction. She creates everything from fanfiction to serialized novels ...