The Bombshell Trope, Explained 

The angel and devil trope

Could we have the May - December romance trope please?

What happened to that EMT that scumbag from the "newspaper" the New York Post exposed was just wrong. I honestly hope that scumbag can never find a reputable job again (assuming the Post ever fires him) after what happened to her. The story should have been that an EMT working during the hell that is this pandemic can't afford to live on her salary alone, not how she supplements it.

They’re not size inclusive, so I’ll stick with my stretchy pants 👖

Do a trope on medical shows.

hi, you might be interested in the "fat funny woman" video where that trope (or at least the idea of a less conventitly atractive guy with a model-like woman) is touched on

Like the old men young woman. Never the other way around. Or the taller man and shorter woman.

Yeah I agree. This trope needs to be ripped to shreds.

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And when people say they do, the "ugly wife" character is more often than not played by a conventionally attractive woman whose presentation is frumped down. I like King of the Hill for how they subverted it: Hank and Peggy look very similar, but it also shows how a pretty woman can be seen as frumpy for her clothes and hair (like Peggy, who really doesn't look different from when she started dating Hank) and Hank shows more the passage of time.

Because they don't want her to know her worth.

In a nutshell.

Mmmm hmm that's right!

What? Just... What?

@@arpitabrahmachari7649 alot people get jealous so they try to make the girl feel insecure or try to "humble her" usually by men by insulting her

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Damn, finally gotta read this book after all. Thanks for sharing

The documentary done on the ways of seeing is incredible too, very eye opening

Deep!

People don't typically expect women to feel like pieces of shit for enjoying how a man looks

@MsTecnofan agreed

@Osamudiamen Blessing she said she was treated like an object and compared Bay to Hitler. They destroyed her career for daring to say anything and not keeping quiet

@MsTecnofan Took the words right from my mouth.

@MsTecnofan definitely Bay, but critics and marketing teams did their part to tear her down, too.

@MsTecnofan that's seriously disturbing

they look nice but often haven't got anything besides that

@@arstans1777 see, that’s simply not true. That’s the way society portrays those women, but the truth is that there’s no correlation between looks and brains. Some girls are very pretty and also very smart.

@@depgabby yeah I agree! The stereotype is that attractive people never have to work on themselves internally (intellect, personality, etc) because they constantly get by on their physical looks alone. Which makes them all very pretty, but vapid through a lot of people eyes.

@@arstans1777 Hedy Lamarr is side eyeing you

@@arstans1777 that’s a simple stereotype you can’t generalize people because there’s dumb people everywhere

Because Hollywood is full of pedophiles.

@@goddessglow6996 ugh we need to stop putting predatory men in positions of power.

I think it's to do with the fact that it helps inflate his ego, and can make him feel more 'manly' aka dominant. If she is the dim-witted one in the relationship, it is easier for him to not mind, because then that just automatically helps give him a upper hand through his intelligence. As long as she brings symbolic womanly beauty and pleasure to the table, which he can't bring himself, for him that's a good enough equation.

I think this idea is all wrong. It’s the traits of innocence, optimism, fun, spontaneity, creativity, and theatricality that makes the women “childlike”, which are all attractive qualities. people like to be reminded of their childhood when things felt easy and less stressful, i don’t see it as a pedophilic thing.

@@kaseygrace1396 You have a good point! Carefree innocent playfulness can be appreciated by both genders, men just are conditioned alot to put on a tough front (which maybe worked to their advantage in evolution, like in fighting off wild animals, and hence it lasted so long). So they crave that balance in their women companion. I think the problem mainly arises when that ideal of innocence is enforced upon women so much that the woman is automatically assumed to be lesser and incapable. Women might want to willingly bring about that balance, but when men started to assume that's all we are and all we should be it started the problem, since it has often come at a dire cost for women.

I was looking for this comment. Yuck.

Chantel Carter yess that video was so good

yeah that comment did not age well

Manu Hailame I mean was that comment born well to begin with honestly? 😬

That made me cringe so hard

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that part.

Hollyweird. Just Hollyweird. You're speaking truth.

What if the men didn't ask for sex.

@@markstriker925 you mean rape that's a different thing however if you are talking about a girl sleeping with her boss then the next day giving her a promotion it's the same thing

Marilyn Monroe in general is one of the most fascinating historic figures.

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Also Hedy Lamarr. She was literally an inventor and we can thank her for wi-fi and bluetooth.

@@phoney2627 I think there are a lot people that collaborated in the help of creating Wi-Fi and bluebooth. These inventions are usually made from group effort and then greedy people cut off deserving participants.

I absolutely adore her!

Women react and treat beautiful women badly, also. It's just a curse unless you have a personality of stone and dont GAF about others, and if you're VERY smart. All these added qualities make her unstoppable. Until then, someone will use and abuse her, by a male or female.

Just look at Megan Fox how she was treated by the industry and how women judge her after she started dating Machine Gun Kelly. People say she is too old and that she is a bad mother because she is dating smh🤦🏻‍♀️. Like how is 34 old? Are you supposed to expire after 30 and having children? Most of these comments are made by other women.

And punished for not being "standard" pretty as well..

@@Mila-Nova Yeah, and she left her husband cause he was a lazy douchebag, but for some reason she is the villain.

The movie Malena with Monica Bellucci literally has this plot to it too, where the women in her village literally want to ostracize her and beat her down for the fact that she's beautiful and their husbands are oggling her and treating her like she's a potential night in bed for them

Precisely my thoughts! Why choose between brains and beauty when you can easily have BOTH?! 📚💄

Also, Christmas Jones.

it's funny and aweosome that every The Take video about these themes, always we concluded that Legally Blonde did it very well XD

Love her 😍😍😍

A smart woman who is also smart and independent would drive a man who values sexist values absolutely insane.

Megan Fox isn't that talented tho

yesss!!!! that was so depraved! the pedophilia in beauty standards really showed there

Doesn't Fox even have a tattoo of Monroe?

@@cui8789 Yeah she did! I think she's removed it though.

@@vonhule shut up

same i wanted to be like my other friends who had guys who actually liked them.

True

Relatable. Ever since, I've been a fan of the sweatpants and hair in a bun look in public.

Exactly! When I see an extraordinarily beautiful women my mind now goes "what nightmare behavior has she had to endure?". I bet everyone has some eye-opening stories to tell

Wait til you start working 😭

I agree, Jessica is a lot more affable than the Bombshell stereotype is normally known for, and she's pretty down to earth as well! 😍

@@edgytypebeat781 huh, I never knew that

THIS. Some people: Shaming girls for monetizing their sexuality/looks. The same people: Ngl, if I looked like her I'd definitely do the same thing, tho.

Yes people who put down onlyfans people are either jealous coz they can't do the same or want to put them down so they can morally place them themselves above them

@@incharak1927 I don’t think it’s either. I think women get upset with their boyfriends or husbands that watch behind their backs those kind of “only fans” as though their women in their life’s aren’t good enough for them. That’s why they get angry with the men and the provocative women. At least for me, I don’t get involved with those type of men. Either you respect me or not.

@@incharak1927 i agree women shouldnt attack other women for doing things like onlyfans. But I disagree there are only two reasons they would, such as the ones you've given, e.g. jealousy or morals. There are women who fit the standard 'society' wants to see in the context of onlyfans, but choose not to engage in it. Those same women don't necessarily consider themselves morally above the women who choose to, either. Personally I worry that engaging in that is reinforcing the idea that a women's value is her body. And how her body can be posed/dressed/glamourised, in order to satisfy a man's body. Women who 'objectify themselves' (whatever that means), are victims of a society that tells them their body is their only value. The onlyfans women that are aware of this systemic belief, are then complicit in the system which oppresses them: they know what their 'power' is and think they're just benefiting from it. But really they're reinforcing what generations of women have gone through- do I objectify myself for men, for some kind of security? Or do I take the hard path, and work to develop my knowledge of different fields, and do a job which doesn't rely on a man's opinion of the appearance of my body? That being said, because this has been going on for so long, a lot of women (and men too) won't have access to the education that could give them life options, other than allowing themselves to be sexually exploited. So it continues. Sex sells because everyone has a body: adverts often tell a man "buy this, and you can have this", but tell a woman "buy this, and you can be this".

Malèna

Yeah wth was that?

@@hareema4442 that’s Hollywood and the entertainment industry... watch an Open Secret documentary when you get the chance...

That was so creepy. Now we know why Marilyn hated Olivier

that creeped me out HARDCORE

right that’s so weird

Oh yes, that stereotype has always irked me. I hate it when he's reduced to being the overally campy Gay Best Friend to the usually female protagonist, and nothing else.

That be good the Gay best friend

@@trinaq yup. The GBF (gay best friend). That's such a thing that a not so known movie was made with that as it's very theme, called, yup, you guessed it, "GBF".

Oh please. Great suggestion. I always despised how flamboyance has been reduced to a defining trait for gay men and how it makes him any less of a 'masculine' man. Masculinity is a beautiful thing and cannot be generalized for everyone. It's high time men(or even women) be taught to be comfortable and happy in their own skin and try not to conform to societal norms.

YES

So maybe it's not REALLY portrayed as cheating

And how men cheating is a lot more accepted and normalized than it should be.

@@ana6975 I feel like that goes back a lot in time

Ooh 👁

Wicker Park is a movie that takes a fleeting look at the hypocritical “true love” that cheats and destroys lives... very fleeting. Great movie tho

Totally!!

The oldest example of that is Helen of Troy, beautiful but cursed.

@@sammyvictors2603 Don't some people blame her for causing the Trojan War?

* Gloria Delgado-Prittchet has entered the chat * Gwhat did you say!!!! NOBODY TELLS ME HOW TO THINK!

@@kittykittybangbang9367 yup. She was.

But entirely natural.

@@toomuchinformation I'm not sure. Maybe I'm biased, but I truly believe that justifying our behavior with instinct and biology is not helping us to recognize how responsible we are for thinking the way we do. We're not above biology but we do have an option to think differently than how our impulses tell us to think.

@@auramora I'm not sure. Standards of beauty vary in different cultures and societies (although with mass media, it's become more homogenised), but that basic human impulse is always there. We can't think everything away.

I see you

Attractive women can dial their looks up or down to suit the needs of the situation. If they want to go about their lives as if they weren't pretty they can. Everyone has problems (rich or poor, smart or dumb, pretty or ugly) but some people have more options for dealing with them than others.

Exactly.

@@lilj362 nOt AlL mEn

@@lilj362 Not all men, but too many of them

MaLe GaZe lol. Wtf am I supposed to do if I see someone looking like Margot robbie on the streets? Put a helmet on? Maybe a knight's armor?

Just to clarify y'all I didn't mean every single men. I was just talking about how men being greedy is a big part of this trope.

I'm glad that its a cult film now!

Well said! 💯💯💯

I literally saw the plaster for the movie and trailer and decided than i am not gonna pay for this shit.

That meghan is an awful radical rather.

Personally I don't like anyway, someone can get hurt

@@taylorfillmore4760 I get what you say, I lnow both men and women should not manipulate, play with others etc BUT welcome to real life. It’s nothing like a fairytale. And sometimes times require a certain way of acting in order to get ahead

what the fuck! that's crazy true

I must agree with Taylor, no one should manipulate anyone. That being sad, your point still stands though

because they ae different, most men are not going to cause any women to lose their shit by flashing some skin, your suggestion of treating both sexes the same even though they have completely different kinds of power/weakness is more messed up

She's exactly like that in the comics and animated shows.

I'm sorry but when people say this about Poison Ivy i get pissed off. Is her cause noble? Yes Does that mean she's not a true villain? Fuck no I'm sorry but if you're going to brainwash the entire world (which by the way she did do that once.) That your noble cause is no longer an excuse I love Ivy don't get me wrong but she isn't a good guy. She's murder, tortured, brainwashed and manipulated a lot of people before. She doesn't give two fucks about anything but Plants and Harley. She wants to see the world burn. If that's not a true villain then I don't know what is

@@AmySwain03 Yeah, she's like Thanos. Good intentions but bad actions.

by means of mass genocide? yeah no...

@@AmySwain03 Ha agreed. She's a great example of a villainous character that we can't condone their actions but love watching for being complex/interesting. Same with Harley.

You bypassed the compressor with this comment!

Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries is just like this! Miss Fisher is a female private detective in 1920s Australia but she also has SO MANY SKILLS! She can drive a car, pick locks, fire a pistol, fly an airplane, detect a fake diamond, identify poisonous plants, cure diarrhea, and put together one fabulous outfit! And she never reveals how she knows any of these things!

Ask the mistress of the richest man in the world

Same goes the other way round. God forbid a man being a housewife!

This sums up a life of a women perfectly

Because you retain DNA of every man you sleep with and it damages you, that's why. Men can sleep around more freely and that is actually sad but true. We are not gatekeepers of sex. You decide who you ''let inside'' lol.

@@rudy1999 That’s the dumbest thing I have ever read but it’s coming from a male so I’m not surprised

@@abbya1707 Nah, it's proven. U just salty it's true lol.

😂😂😂

This is a video I want to see!

Or balding

Voldemort 😂

And that's where we come to the root of "incel" self-image...

Karen should've talked to her husband 😒😤😑 I hate it when people let their insecurity mistreat blessed people like your old Co worker

@@jessicavictoriacarrillo7254 amen! 🙌

It's because our society views attractiveness and kindness/hardworking as mutually exclusive things. I am considered attractive, and I have had similar experiences, being put down, viewed as stupid, and sabotaged constantly.

@@pamsanchez2400 Thats really sad, and not something we would ever see in any movies.

@DeeDee I’m so sorry you’ve had to deal w that! I hope you’ve got lots of wonderful people in your life who appreciate you for you 💚💚

Say it louder for the people in the back

Overrated

especially Jennifer’s body. it’s considered a cult classic now but was shit on when it was released I hear

@@rozepyracantha5574 Yup!

wwx?

Omg sameee hehe made me grin to myself 🥰

Yep! 👍🏻👍🏻

So pretty that you are afraid to show your real photo xD

@@rudy1999 contrary to popular belief, I am not obligated to show myself simply because I am pretty. And, while you do have a right to your own opinion, you do not have a right to my image. Therefore, nothing you say or insinuate will change me or my opinion of myself. For future reference though you really should be more kind to others. We've not done anything to harm you.

@@trustmaker1014 Yeah I can be a fat dwarf and call myself pretty, doesn't make it so.

You forgot that although you crave and love female company and friendships, other women often meet you with distrust and negativity. The ones that took the time to get to know me, told me often "wow you're actually really nice and funny" as if they weren't expecting you to be 🤦🏻‍♀️

@@smp6565 Exactly. It's always a surprise :)

You've described my experience exactly. I was neglected in childhood so for many years I looked in rough shape and was chubby from emotionally eating, so people considered me unattractive, but that bullying never got super bad. Comments were made, but people were more excited to bully me for other reasons. I had a glow up and suddenly no women want to be my friend, no man ever actually sees me as a friend, slut-shaming ensued, and nice men are less likely to approach me. I get catcalled and harassed all the time, so I can only go outside in baggy clothes and no makeup and it still happens incessantly, and I don't leave my house anymore for anything. I get constant negative attention from dangerous/narc men who see me as a sex object and fantasy, who do not want me to have a personality or be intelligent (and I have both) bc it threatens their ego. They want me to be a trophy and a vessel for their violence, not a person. It landed me in an abusive relationship. It's the main male attention I get. I don't bother to buy nice outfits anymore and only have athletic clothes now. I can't dress for me anymore. If I wanted to go somewhere fancy I'd truly have nothing to wear- if I can't wear leggings I don't go. I have strangers nitpick my appearance no matter how I look, but when considered pretty they say it right to my face to "humble me." Ironic bc I would/have never done that to someone else. They project on me that I must be very lucky and bitchy, but it's the opposite, I do a lot of community service and would take the shirt off my back for a complete stranger. I was 130 lbs. and have severe body dysmorphia, and people picked my appearance apart so much I developed a very serious eating disorder and I almost died. It gets super lonely and I spend all my time alone. Having been the hot friend and the ugly friend, I view pretty privilege as a curse. It's been super traumatizing. The main positive differences I notice is that store employees are much nicer to me and people are more likely to say yes to favors, but since I don't go out and just order everything, that doesn't come up a lot for me personally. I was much happier when my appearance wasn't triggering people left and right into treating me inhumanely. I miss the freedom I had in society when I wouldn't be harassed as much, people didn't always pretend to be my friend to get into my pants and then drop me immediately when their trick doesn't work, and when men wouldn't always view me existing in public by myself as an invitation to say whatever they want to me or touch me. I don't agree that all attention is good attention- it's scary and dangerous and I get targeted for violence A LOT more. I had a "friend" tell me I was lucky to experience SA bc it meant someone wanted to have sex with me. They say stuff like that and then wanna play the victim card. They're so mad at us they can't see we're on the same team. I'm queer and nothing I do is for the male gaze, but I'm feminine and therefore not allowed to exist for anything but men's horniness, so no one cares. It's a very dark and grave situation. Too many of us don't survive "pretty."

@@pflynn623 so sorry and truly heartbroken to hear this 🥺 experienced many of the things you mentioned myself although maybe not as badly. The "nitpicking" thing happened to me just yesterday 🤦🏻‍♀️people think to compliment you but point out your flaws while doing it. A male friend explained "Well I'm sure you hear being called beautiful all the time so they wana also huble you and stand out from other dudes by telling you something negative. They think it'll intrigue you more"... Fuck no! It's just mean and hurtful?! I hope you have people around you who support you. I wish you healing, happiness and serenity 🙏🏻✨

Except that she always had her headlights on, not what a “Girl Next Door” normally had.

@@Egilhelmson that was definitely normal for the 90s and early 2000s tho no one with perky, average size boobs would bother to wear a bra.

@@pastelmermage8883, I disagree on the "average", but that may be a question of what you expect to be the average.

@@g.strobl4458 like c cup and under

@@pastelmermage8883 , C is what I'd consider average, too. When I wore a C cup as a teen, running hurt already without the bra, so I would not have dispensed with the it. Perhaps I am extrapolating too much from my own experiences when I assume that other women would also prefer physical comfort. :D

I keep thinking of Bridget Jones's friend Tom, who is depicted very shallow in the films. In the books, he still is shallow and he still peppers Bridget with positive comments on how she matches the convention of attractiveness but there is a point in the first book where Bridget and her other friends don't hear from him, get worried he was the victim of a hate crime and even giving a little history of 1970s/1980s British gay and anti-racist activism, before finding out that Tom went in for a nose job.

I think they did it already

Other woman

with the stoner trope i always think of the guy from cabin in the woods, the idiot stoner was actually the smartest one lol

Stoner trope!!! 😎😎😎 Duuude hahaha 🤣

They signed contracts to be in these films themselves?

Not to mention the constant torture with fame, recognition and money. Those poor, but super duper strong, Mail Gayzed women went through hell on the red carpet wearing those high heels. NEVER AGAIN!

Gotta keep it under 30 minutes

Sissy refused to go out in public, too, when she was old.

+1 People should remember her old and ugly.

I don't think they did her dirty on the set of Jennifer's Body 🤔

@@mar6488 It was mainly the marketing team for jennifer’s body that did her dirty and not on the movie set itself, like you said. I believe megan fox even said herself that jennifer’s body was her favorite project she had ever worked on. It was a movie that was aimed at a more lgbt/female audience (bc it focused on toxic female friendships and the complicated feelings they can produce) while also having a female director. The marketing team misunderstood that focus completely and centered the marketing around “look how hot megan and her body is” to her straight male fanboys, who then proceeded to get Very Upset when the movie turned out to be, well, a horror movie, and not just megan showing her boobs for the entire runtime. I think one of the only ways megan felt bad during filming was the time she knew that the kiss scene (meant to represent the complicated feelings produced from toxic female friendships) was going to be used badly by the marketing team by having it in every trailer, which they did do.

@@Phantaceles JB was way ahead of its time, unfortunately. Re-watching it nowadays just hits a lot different.

@@mar6488 Honestly tho. It says a lot about what audience it was reaching towards when they did, like, a hot-topic sponsored meetup back then lol

Say it louder for folks in the back!👏🏿

how about Eartha Kitt as Cat Woman?

I think Tony from girlfriends was a bombshell

Toni*

@@noonaluna2549 Gabi Union, 2 can play that game?

Dumbledore too

Mr. Miyagi

Chiron too

how could you forget: Obi-Wan Kenobi, the Trope embodiment!!!

Yresß

Ugh ! That meghan is an awful radical rather.

​@@anamarte7547 I get you are trying to say something but I'm not seeing it. it sounds like you think that people only want to see two things... butch and moms... maybe we wanna see more? I mean we're as diverse as heteros and who says you can't be jocky and beautiful? who says all women want kids? I want kids but that doesn't mean some other lady does. why can't their stories be told?

interesting pov

Yes, I love that quote, why go big when you could go even bigger?! 💖

@@trinaq I agree

Bestest quote ever! Mail Gaze check and mate, booomchill Lil Mommy style! Whooooohooooo!

Truly!

I'm doubling down: Rose Tico.

And? It's bad that men are attracted to beautiful women?

You only grow confidence by doing difficult shit. When you won't be able to care less about what everyone else does; on the the day when you'll feel genuine respect for your past, for the fights you've fought, for having a character - on that day you will have have grown confidence and feel respect for yourself instead of love. You love is for other people. Alternatively you can keep trying the narcissist route of telling yourself life lies 24/7 until you start believing them one day, magically causing the world to surrender to your irresistible, completely unearned but super duper awesome self-love. Nothing more attractive than somebody who's full of herself for no reason at all, and who's grounded enough to expect a mass following because she's naturally way better than everybody else. Remember, girl: it's really super easy, you only need to love yourself, is all! Bypass the compressor NOW!

I am saddened by the term "black Bombshells" and "Bombshells of color". A Bombshell is a Bombshell regardless of her ethnicity. Putting sexy black women into a subcategory is seriously underestimating them. Having said that, I very much agree with colorism in what is considered the ideal black Bombshell! As a biracial woman, I feel stupid when I am placed as a black woman, as though being mostly European is the only palatable way for a "black" woman to be. I am not black. There are many truly black women far more beautiful than me, who would not be considered so by white people. I would like there to be more biracial and multiracial awareness. For one thing, people like me would not continuously be expected to ignore up to 75% of our heritage whilst standing in the way of actual black people. Also, real black beauty would be noticed, because white people could no longer pretend not to be racist by putting "black people" in power, on covers and on stage who are mostly white. The reason white people like "light black" people better is because we ARE white people as much as we are black people. However, there have been many mono-racial black women in the beauty and fashion industry: The classical Mounia, Duckie Thot, Beverly Peele, Alec Wek, 70s covergirl Naomi Sims, Maria Borges, Halima Aden, Naomi Campbell, Grace Jones, Leomie Anderson, and Iman is Somali (so mixed with Asian in most cases), to name a few

Saffron Sugar I think the world of fashion has always been more international and open minded than the world of glamour. It’s all so much more excepting of gender identity and sexual orientation. The fashion industry is not just aimed at straight white men.

Diahann Caroll but you are correct

Those kind of men have one of them

eww stay away from men like that

They chose to use white characters here I think there are many examples of women of color other than Halle berry

True, I wish that they're be more depictions of gorgeous women of color who are guy magnets, such as Queen Latifah or Halle Berry! 💜

You say that as if it's a crime being white...

@@trinaq there is more of that recently

this tropes are almost always only white women lmao

Was just thinking that

Same question

The Femme Fatale is a sub trope of the Bombshell

They are different archetypes. Bombshell is Aphrodite that means her actions based on love and joy, she’s super sensual and sincere. For Femme Fatale beauty is a weapon to gain power, revenge, money, knowledge. It’s her way of surviving. Bombshell gets everything she wants easy bc she’s very likable and easygoing.

@@alisa_hanes They're essentially foils of the promiscuous and pretty privileged woman.

Honestly I don't know but I think genders studies, cinematography, sociology, women's studies, are good studies for this type of video

+1 Educational background, I'm guessing professor or something at least!!!

Yap, but Hollywood it isn't as compassionate with women.

It depends on the moon cycle.

That would be so good. That movie genuinely scared me

That movie was astonishing and horrifying.

Love malena! 🥰

That movie made me depressed

amazing and unforgettable movie

Interesting. I can only think of two films that I've seen her in: "Don John" and "Marriage Story" and yes in both she doesn't get the guy.

@@toomuchinformation There's also The Other Boleyn Girl, He's Just Not That Into You, Her, Match Point

Tell me more about it💯

Yeah I would like to answer that with ur username 😆

I'm mexican and I have never seen a Spicy Latina in my entire life. For me it's just a Hollywood myth.

@@Ratchet2431 Yeah, that's kind of the point I want to adress, plus the fact she's a maid and her boss sees her as a "luxury item".

@@j.albuquerque9274 Sounds interesting. Break a leg.