I'm a huge film buff and one trope I've always hated is lack of object permanence for women. One is as good as another, and if they share hobbies, traits, or DNA, why they are clearly identical! Like if a man goes time travelling or gets lost in space, you just know 200 years later he's going to meet the great-great-granddaughter of his "true love" he had to leave behind to go on his mission. And wouldn't you know, she looks just like the woman he used to love, heidi-ho, they're the same person (often played by the same actress) and why doesn't he just marry her instead!

Like in Bicentennial Man where Robin Williams (RIP) played a robot who kept taking on more and more human capabilities, emotions, a human body and functions, etc. He was fighting to be recognized as human by the gov't. He was sort of a robot servant and loved the daughter of the family he worked for, but of course, she never knew because he never said anything and he was still a full robot at the time. She married someone else human and he was heartbroken. He was "freed" by the family, but all was fine because decades later when he came to visit Amanda, his true love was old and on her death bed, being human, and he met her granddaughter, Portia. Close enough! He was modified enough to marry Portia and live happily ever after. Same thing with Captain America (which admittedly I know a lot less about, so if I mix something up, tell me). The 50s hero was cryogenically frozen and when he thawed out most of the humans he had known, including his great love, Peggy Carter, were dead. But you know who was around, doing essentially the exact same job for S.H.I.E.L.D? Sharon Carter, her great-niece! Captain America and Sharon get nice and cozy, swapping spit in Captain America: Civil War. In the later MCU movies, time travel is discovered and he does go back to Peggy, but while he thought it was impossible, he was clearly not unwilling to be consoled by the next best thing.

And it's not always a relative or look alike that sways the guy. Sometimes it's just a trait. Like in The Good Shepherd. Matt Damon plays one of the heads of the CIA. The movie follows his whole life. When he was in college, his one great love was a hard-of-hearing girl who wore prominent hearing aids, but he screws that up by sleeping with a student played by Angelina Jolie. She gets pregnant and times being what they were, he marries her. Anyhow, years later when he is unhappy at home and working in counter-intelligence, he meets a young lady, Hanna, who also has hearing loss, prominent hearing aids and a shy nature. He starts having affair with her, but one night after they sleep together, he's talking to her and she's answering, and he sees her hearing aids on the nightstand. She's not deaf, she's a Soviet spy sent to seduce him and get intell. But what gets me every time is they knew it would work! Because a deaf girl is a deaf girl is a deaf girl. Women are interchangeable. Surely they don't have thoughts and feelings of their own. It's like when we used to play with Barbies when we were kids. Put that Barbie's clothes on the other one, swap their accessories, this one was married to Ken, but now this one is! It's all the same. Only men do it with real women. Media reflects male mindsets pretty accurately (p0rn, anyone?). Women are interchangeable to many men. That's why the guy who got "rejected" in his mind in high school by a certain girl will spend the rest of his life chasing similar women. Why men get with one woman and become obsessed with her sister. Watch out for this trait in men. Ask the man you're with or dating to describe you and what he likes about you. If he says a bunch of generic BS (e.g. you're so nice), run. You're just a female shaped carbon life form, a woman to hold a spot. And any woman will do.