I'm 26 now and still holding out for a man who is secure in his identity and sees me for who I am. While studying ... and treat me like their manic pixie dream girl. The term usually describes ...

I call this the “Manic Pixie Dream Girl Dream,” primarily because I’ve mostly seen it in men who seem to think that the Manic Pixie Dream Girls they see in comics are what real girls are like.

I am talking, of course, about Zooey Deschanel’s titular character in (500) Days of Summer. Summer arguably marked the pinnacle of the manic pixie dream girl era. With her cutesy style ...

That’s nice, since the point of what they’re doing escaped me. Nominally a send-up of filmdom’s “manic pixie dream girl” figure that sensitive, quirky, waif romanticized in movies like ...

Marta is “irresponsible” and potentially a bit of a manic pixie dream girl if the trailer is anything to go by. (Inventing a game where she goads Raúl into scaring strangers on the street ...