Kickass Heroines v. Too Stupid To Live

Kickass Heroines: Too Stupid To Live, or simply female?

A few years back when I was first starting to write romance, I kept coming across the phrase TSTL, short for Too Stupid To Live.

This epithet seemed to be directed at female characters - in fact, I have never seen a male character described as TSTL - who took risks in the story, and tended to make 'bad' or 'poor' decisions, according