John Green: Looking for Alaska is supposed to be about how the manic pixie dream girl doesn't exist, and romanticizing women to fit your fantasy is unhealthy for both people.

John Green: Looking for Alaska is supposed to be about how the manic pixie dream girl doesn't exist, and romanticizing women to fit your fantasy is unhealthy for both people.

John Green: Margo doesn't go with Q and the end of Paper Towns because it shows that women have goals an aspirations other than finding boyfriends.

John Green: Hazel kissing Augustus is significant because it means Hazel is taking control over her own life and choosing her own happiness. If Augustus had kissed Hazel instead, it would have made the decision of happiness equal to a boy deciding he likes you.

Tumblr: ugh so problematic and sexist