The thing is, those Manic Pixie Dream Girl movies aren’t unrealistic because that kind of thing never happens in real life. They’re unrealistic because they never show the epilogue five years later, where the Sadboy Protagonist is posting on reddit going “help, my girlfriend has cool unique hobbies and it’s embarrassing me.”
I don’t know how this comes as a shock to some people, but if you’re dating a girl with a bug collection, you’re going to be dating a girl who proudly shows dead bugs to your mom.
Hey now. Sometimes you come back five years later and now they’re both cool girls
I feel like the people who are bothered by the hobbies are loud and visible, and the people who are happy about them don’t really do much except occasionally buy cool bug themed things for their cool girlfriend, or possibly by then their cool wife.