היא כתבה "עדינות ושבריריות", ואלו דברים שבדרך כלל קרובים
כן זה אפשרי להיות עדין מבלי להיות שברירי, אבל בהרבה מקרים זה בא ביחד, במיוחד כאשר מדובר במאפיינים נשיים קלאסיים. אם מישהי שברירית אז יכולים להיזהר יותר שלא לשבור אותה, אבל מי שרוצה לשבור יכול לעשות את זה הרבה יותר בקלות למישהי שברירית מאשר למישהי קשוחה, זה על אותו עיקרון כמו ההבדל בין פרח לבין קקטוס או סלע. כן שברריות נשית יכולה לעודד גברים שלא לריב עם נשים, במיוחד אם מדובר בג'נטלמן.
"With all the luxury afforded to a princess and all the knights dedicated to her protection, who would have thought the most dangerous person in the castle is the princess herself? Instead of knitting or gossiping, this princess has developed powers or abilities that make her more like a cactus than a delicate flower."
"Instead of the Damsel in Distress, this princess's role in the plot is active. She still might fall in love with the hero, as a princess traditionally would, but she'll be fighting next to him instead of crying for help. She could be his sidekick or he could be her sidekick; either way she won't be sitting around waiting for someone else to end the fight."
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BadassPrincess
"When applied to ordinary bar fights, schoolyard throwdowns, duels of honor and so on, the trope is well-meaning if sexist (against both men and women, albeit in different ways). However, when characters keep invoking it in situations where their female opponent poses a serious threat that might only be preventable by violence, it quickly becomes absurd. The cynical might point out that, rather than being motivated by pure nobility of spirit, this philosophy functions as a convenient way for the male character to avoid the humiliation of being beaten by a woman; if he refuses to fight against women, there's no way for a woman to ever prove she could defeat him at his full strength."
"Action heroes (or villains) who invoke this trope even though they face female opponents find various ways to get around it. At minimum, they'll make a quip along the lines of I normally hate hitting women, but in this case I'll make an exception or "I don't hit ladies, but you're no lady" before they start to strike back. They might try to find creative ways to defeat her nonviolently, perhaps through trickery; they might try to minimize the necessary violence by using grapples or pressure point attacks rather than actual blows; or they might get off on a technicality by doing something that indirectly results in physical harm to the female opponent without actually striking or firing a weapon against her. In supernatural settings, the problem may be resolved by the male character temporarily turning into a woman, voluntarily or not, thus freeing him from a gentleman's obligations toward the fairer sex. Probably the most common solution, however, is for the male character to simply defer to a female ally who faces no such moral dilemma."
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WouldntHitAGirl