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Posted on 03/02/2017 6:04:39 AM PST by C19fan
I was on a flight from New York to Seattle recently when a long delay on the tarmac prompted the airline to offer us a free movie. As the flight attendant read the choices aloud, a young man across the aisle said, “I don’t watch chick flicks!”
I knew what he meant, and so did the woman sitting next to me. A “chick flick” is one that has more dialogue than car chases, more relationships than special effects, and whose suspense comes more from how people live than from how they get killed.
I wasn’t challenging his preference, but I did question the logic of his term. After all, much of what we read as great literature in school may well have been called “chick lit,” especially if it had been written by women.
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Think about it: If “Anna Karenina" had been by Leah Tolstoy, or “The Scarlet Letter” by Nancy Hawthorne or “A Doll’s House” by Henrietta Ibsen — if “The Invisible Man” had been “The Invisible Woman” — would they have been hailed as classics?
Steinman has never heard of Jane Austen, the Bronte sisters, and George Eliot (or does Steinman think Eliot is a man), etc????
We have “Die Hard.”
Maeve Binchy, Sue Grafton, Agatha Christy, Anne Rynd, Anne Rice, Harper Lee, need I go on?
That was the first though that came to my mind as well.
or Mary Shelley
To be honest, from someone that’s taught The Scarlet Letter at the high school and college level, there’s no way it could have been written by anyone other than Hawthorne, period.
Fast and furious
the expendables
Debby does Dallas
etc.
Women have chick flicks, and when they go see them men get a little peace and quiet.
Another glorious day in the Corps https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woB1zvaSXag
Best Christmas movie ever!
Hubby calls them D*ck Flicks.
And when we feel like killing people we can always watch “ Star Trek Beyond”, “ Vikings “ , “ Game of Thrones” and “ Die Hard”
We have porn....
So, Gloria Steinman is engaged in stereotyping people along gender lines. Interesting.
For the record, if a movie tells a good story and is done well, I will watch it, regardless of the type of movie it is. But it is more likely to be an adventure movie than a chick flick.
“His “chick flick” label might help him avoid certain movies, but shouldn’t he have an actual label to guide him towards movies he actually liked”?
Funny.I remember when we got the big lecture from the left that we shouldn’t use labels for things or label people.
Guess a few years goes by and their philosophies are not truisms.
Socrates and Plato would be long forgotten names if they were Democrat philosophers.
Not that I ascribe to their philosophical ideas but at least they were thinkers and not agenda pushers.
“Women Have ‘Chick Flicks.’ What About Men?”
We have a life and responsibilities.
Even a stopped clock can be right, and a blind hog finds a truffle, or something. It’s true that much of the acknowledged great literature (theater, cinema) of the world was produced by men yet contains elements that correlate with “chick-flick.”
How do I get out of this Chickensh*t outfit?
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