 In December 2012, "Slate"s Aisha Harris posited that "critiques of the MPDG may have become more common than the archetype itself", suggesting that filmmakers had been forced to become "self-aware about such characters" in the years since Rabin's coining of the phrase and that the trope had largely disappeared from film.In July 2013, Kat Stoeffel, for "The Cut", argued that the use of the term had become sexist, in that "it was levied, criminally at Diane Keaton in "Annie Hall" and Zooey Deschanel, the actual person.