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In reply to the discussion: Stalking, actually: why men who reject rejection are not romantic heroes [View all]meadowlander
(4,393 posts)where the heroines engage in borderline stalker behaviour (like the one where Carrie sleeps with her ex and then rummages around the apartment after he leaves to learn more about his new wife or the one where she follows him around all day because she thinks he's cheating and finds out he takes him mother to church - awww). This is portrayed as normal curiosity as opposed to being creepy and intrusive.
And there's lots of examples of "girl has crush on guy and follows him from afar while she works up the nerve to talk to him" plots.
But where they generally don't take it is "guy tells girl he isn't interested but she keeps following him and trying to talk to him and eventually performs some humiliating public gesture that makes him fall into her arms".