In this monomyth, as they call it, tropes abound. The police chief is clumsy and overweight. The senator conspires with the villain. Cities are full of vice, while rural areas are populated by good and simple people. Women are either lustful temptresses or weak pacifists. The hero, meanwhile, is lonely and selfless, and despite how many women throw themselves at him, he never wants the girl (even when she is his wife). This last one is an ideology also echoed by Charles Manson when he said, “I don’t need broads. Every woman I ever had, she asked me to make love to her…. I can do without them.”
