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Gloria Steinem: Women Have ‘Chick Flicks.’ What About Men?
NY Times ^
| March 2, 2017
| Gloria Steinman
Posted on 03/02/2017 6:04:39 AM PST by C19fan
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To: C19fan
I don’t mind chick flicks, as long as they make out.
To: C19fan
To: MarkL
Oh my, certainly not a chick flick but written by a woman. BTW, that movie is celebrating it’s 40th anniversary.
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posted on
03/02/2017 6:48:26 AM PST
by
OttawaFreeper
("If I had to go to war again, I'd bring lacrosse players" Conn Smythe)
To: C19fan
We have porn. And football.
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posted on
03/02/2017 6:49:00 AM PST
by
bigbob
(We have better coverage than Verizon - Can You Hear Us Now?)
To: MarkL
Amen. If I could give one word of advice to the young men out there - marry a girl who likes hockey, especially playoff hockey. You’ll never have to worry about fighting over the remote when The Bachelor comes on.
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posted on
03/02/2017 6:49:32 AM PST
by
Hat-Trick
(Do you trust a government that cannot trust you with guns?)
To: C19fan
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.
That also describes "Chinatown" and "Raging Bull", which are most definitely not chick flicks - they are films for grown men. The problem is that Hollywood doesn't make movies for men anymore. It makes movies for women - Steinem's "chick flicks" - and it makes movies for physical and mental adolescents based on comic books. The latter consist of fantasies full of explosions, special effects and heroic girls who are magically able to beat up men twice their size. I'm not sure what Steinem doesn't like among those two categories.
To: Fai Mao
Maeve Binchy, Sue Grafton, Agatha Christy, Anne Rynd, Anne Rice, Harper Lee, need I go on? There's also Mary Shelly, author of "Frankenstein". The book might qualify as "chick lit". At it's core, it's about a very intelligent person (in the book, "the Monster" is smart and literate) being upset over being unattractive. You can tell a woman wrote it.
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posted on
03/02/2017 6:51:50 AM PST
by
PapaBear3625
(Big government is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
To: C19fan
Two words:
Gladiator movies.
To: KC_Lion
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posted on
03/02/2017 6:57:10 AM PST
by
Gamecock
(Twitter: What a real democracy looks like.)
To: IYAS9YAS
Meathead didn’t write the funny lines. The great screenwriter William Goldman did.
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posted on
03/02/2017 7:01:43 AM PST
by
CaptainK
(...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
To: C19fan
We have ‘chick-flicks’, too!
Deep Throat, Debbie Does Dallas, etc...............
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posted on
03/02/2017 7:03:56 AM PST
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Red Badger
(If "Majority Rule" was so important in South Africa, why isn't it that way here?.......)
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posted on
03/02/2017 7:04:19 AM PST
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Red Badger
(If "Majority Rule" was so important in South Africa, why isn't it that way here?.......)
To: Fai Mao
I’ll throw in Edith Wharton.
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posted on
03/02/2017 7:06:09 AM PST
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CaptainK
(...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
To: C19fan
Every now and then Mrs NHD catches a chick flick on the Hallmark channel. We chuckle at the plot line which is always the same:
1. Girl has serious relationship with a guy but something is wrong.
2. Some other guy shows up in town.
3. Girl takes interest in other guy and things start to get serious.
4. Doubt creeps in and girl goes back to first guy.
5. Not to worry, it’s only momentary.
6. Girl dumps first guy and goes back to new guy.
7. They get married and live happily ever after.
To: NewHampshireDuo
Mrs WBill was watching one of those women's channels awhile back. I walked in, saw what she was doing, and asked, "So.....is it a terminal disease, or an abusive husband?"
She threw a pillow at me. Turned out, it was both.
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posted on
03/02/2017 7:11:26 AM PST
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wbill
To: C19fan
“True Lies.” Arnold kills lots of people with gratuitous violence and Jamie Lee Curtis dances around in her underwear. The perfect movie.
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posted on
03/02/2017 7:15:31 AM PST
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PLMerite
To: Cowgirl of Justice
You owe me a new keyboard! ;)
LOL!
To: OttawaFreeper
I do have my NHL bench clearing brawls 1977 to 1984 compilation on VHS, as well as ones of New York Rangers fights 1978 to about 1982 or Boston Bruins 1968 to 1982, both also on VHS. All that and a little ice hockey too!
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posted on
03/02/2017 7:18:24 AM PST
by
thulldud
To: C19fan
Sam Baldwin: Well I’m not looking for a mail-order bride! I just want somebody I can have a decent conversation with over dinner. Without it falling down into weepy tears over some movie!
Greg: She’s, as you just saw, very emotional.
Sam Baldwin: Although I cried at the end of “the Dirty Dozen.”
Greg: Who didn’t?
Sam Baldwin: Jim Brown was throwing these hand grenades down these airshafts. And Richard Jaeckel and Lee Marvin
[Begins to cry]
Sam Baldwin: were sitting on top of this armored personnel carrier, dressed up like Nazis...
Greg: [Crying too] Stop, stop!
Sam Baldwin: And Trini Lopez...
Greg: Yes, Trini Lopez!
Sam Baldwin: He busted his neck while they were parachuting down behind the Nazi lines...
Greg: Stop.
Sam Baldwin: And Richard Jaeckel - at the beginning he had on this shiny helmet...
Greg: [Crying harder] Please no more. Oh God! I loved that movie.
Sleepless in Seattle (1993)
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posted on
03/02/2017 7:22:13 AM PST
by
Bubba_Leroy
(The Obamanation has ended!)
To: C19fan
Chick flicks are movies where women talk about their feelings, and other boring stuff.
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posted on
03/02/2017 7:23:06 AM PST
by
Brooklyn Attitude
(The first step in ending the War on White People, is to recognize it exists.)
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