Gloria Steinem: Women Have ‘Chick Flicks.’ What About Men?

NY Times ^ | March 2, 2017 | Gloria Steinman

[Cecily]

Dorothy Sayers, Virginia Woolf, Patricia Highsmith, Elizabeth Gaskell, Willa Cather, Carson McCullers, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Eudora Welty, Katherine Anne Porter, Margaret Mitchell - all women writers (from past times) of novels considered classics.

[Brooklyn Attitude]

“Would she say ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’ or ‘12 Angry Men’ was a ‘chick flick’? There’s a whole lot of talking but no shooting, killing or car chases.”

Cant be a chick flick without at least 2 chicks in it with major roles.

[dfwgator]

And then there’s Glen & Garry & Glen & Ross......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QipAqdomO3I

(Lot’s of Language)

[utahb52]

And when we need an old classic, we pull out something like Where Eagles Dare or The Great Escape

[Trillian]

Chick flicks are movies about whiny, self absorbed women that sabotage every relationship they’re in and blame the men.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Porn?

[NonValueAdded]

Contestant: “What is porn.”

Alex: “that’s right for $1,000.

[Architect of Avalon]

Feminists, and their allies in academia, reject classics that are written by and focus on women when those classics celebrate domesticity like, for example, Little Women does.

[Architect of Avalon]

There is a weird tendency for TV movies targeted to women to focus on women dying or being the victim of a man.

[Architect of Avalon]

You’ve described a number of Taylor Swift songs.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

There are books that I love to read but would bore me to tears in a movie. I am reading one right now, “Cache Lake Country” which is amazing in written form but would have me gnawing off an arm to get out if it was made into a movie.

Movies are good for action but they are horrible at what might be called inner dialog.

The problem with chick-flicks is they try to present the inner dialog and fail horribly because in the 90 minutes they are allowed they can only skim over things.

So everything is shallow unless they are dealing with very simple emotions.

[RinaseaofDs]

I guess she’s never read any Hemingway. “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber.”

One of the best examples of male fiction I’ve ever read. It should be taught to middle school boys with a very grave admonishment: “You may never be able to understand women, but Hemingway came the closest - read on young man and heed.”