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* More militaries have become professional volunteer forces doing away with [[Draft Dodging]].
* The feminist movement was a Trope Breaker for many tropes, including [[Damsel in Distress]], [[Screaming Woman]], [[Stay in the Kitchen]], [[Hysterical Woman]], and [[Monster Misogyny]]. Unfortunately, it also ''made'' the tropes [[Straw Feminist]] and [[Real Women Don't Wear Dresses]].
* The tropes where daughters must be married off at all costs, as a purely economic proposition, are thankfully becoming badly outdated.
* The sexual revolution, the Pill, Roe vs. Wade has also broken many [[Sex Tropes]], like the one where yer redneck weddin' ain't no good unless [[Shotgun Wedding|her pappy's got a licence for the gun]]▼
** For instance, in opera's ''La Traviata'' (Verdi, 1853) Alfredo's father (Giorgio Germont) demands his son's lover Violetta break off her relationship because of fear that Violetta's reputation has somehow threatened his daughter's (Alfredo's sister's) engagement (Giorgio: Pura siccome un angelo, Iddio mi diè una figlia – "Pure as an angel, God gave me a daughter").
** The historic legend of ''St. Nicholas of Myra'' involves St. Nick secretly paying for the weddings of a poor man's three daughters, as somehow the only economic options for young women are presented as either marriage or prostitution.
** Then there are the endless fairy tales where [[Happily Ever After]] is blatantly and routinely defined as espousing someone whose parents own a government. Mind you, in real life, a floppy-eared prince is likely to cheat on you with Camilla, leading to an ugly divorce.
▲* The sexual revolution, the Pill
** The same could be said for many of the [[Stigmatic Pregnancy Euphemism|pregancy tropes]] which involved women being forced to carry an accidental or unwanted pregnancy to term - although your mileage may vary as some régimes still hunt abortion doctors as criminals, depending on the country.
** And then there's the whole heap of excess baggage about being expected to marry a virgin... which is belatedly dying, at least in the West
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