Posted on 09/10/2012 8:40:16 AM PDT by C19fan
There’s no denying it: ladies love the chick flicks. For men, they’re instruments of torture they must endure with their woman so they can be rewarded at the end of the night. Women, however, eat them up — especially the under-30 crowd. They’ll drag their boyfriends to them, bond with a group of girlfriends while watching them, or sit at home alone crying to them. Nevermind that they’re vapid, formulaic crap that Hollywood can churn out faster than Sandra Fluke can go through condoms. They’re still successful.
Too bad they also send some of the worst messages to women in the history of mankind. Horrible stereotypes, insulting characters, idiotic relationship advice… it’s all there. Some chick flicks are better at hiding it than others, but generally, you can count on the same thing each time. The worst part is, women are actually starting to believe the lunacy they see in these movies!
So which are the worst offenders, and what damaging messages do they send?
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Bridget Jones’s Diary...she parades around at work in a short skirt and see-through blouse, deliberately trying to entice her coworker (and superior) to ask her out. The slutty attire works and he asks her out. She hopes to sleep with him on the first date, and chooses her underwear accordingly. They do indeed sleep together on the first date. Later, when he cheats on her, she’s shocked and devastated. Who did she think she was dealing with, Ward Cleaver?
Another thing that bugs me about chick flicks is that they seem to be saying, “The more wacky and crazy a girl is, and the more trouble she causes, the more adorable men will find her to be.” I’ve always suspected this is not so.
Mrs WBill has the same problem. :-)
Watching "Roadhouse" affects my brain cells. If it's on TV and I surf into it, I can't turn it off. I dunno why, it's not a Swayze thing. Frankly, I like the music in it.
“The worst”.
Good God, that’s hysterical. I am so stealing that.
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In all fairness ... the other side of the coin.
Sometimes women are like making bread. You need to leave them alone for a while to get a rise out of them.
Don't you realize that without the 19th; it would be far more difficult to get any socialist/communist democrats elected to office?
Oh...wait...
My wife often asks why I like such and such movie. I reply: "Things go fast or things go boom." Sometimes it's a twofer with fast things going boom!
There are a couple of those networks on cable, and I get them mixed up... Which one is the "I hate men" network, and which one is the "All men are scum" network? I'm not married, so I'd appreciate it if you'd ask your wife to get them straight for me. Thanks!
Mark
—— I don’t recall, but the Duke had several movies with a woman where either he was away from the gal (”She wore a yellow ribbon”?) or his wife had passed on. Eastwood in “Unforgiven” had the deceased wife. I wonder if it has something to do with establishing the “loner” image and the rugged individual. Lost his love, never to love like that again, alone, but will handle it.-—
Interesting. Same with the Rifleman. Is this a primal male fear of being alone, like the male equivalent of the apparent good-guy-turned-syringe-wielding madman on Lifetime? Not that I’ve watched several movies like that, or anything...
-—Of course just watched part of “High Plains Drifter” yesterday where Eastwood rapes a gal in a barn (well - it really wasn’t “rape-rape” as she enjoyed it), then beds the hotel owner’s wife, etc.-—
I remembered that scene, which is why I qualified my statement. Not much of a relationship, though...
Have you ever seen that movie where he’s bed-ridden in a house full of hard-up women? I won’t attempt to analyze that one.
Gives insight to their political choices...
Maybe to a teen. for me she just looks like a kid. Prettish, but not beautiful and definitely not hot. and I'm 34 :-P
“Are you insinuating that The Duke was a fag?”
THE HELL HE WAS!!
“He was to you boys. I was installing two-way mirrors in his pad in Brentwood, and he comes to the door in a dress.”
— great scene from ‘Repo Man’ —
She had issues.
Don’t get me started on Disney movies, where the kid disobeys the parent, but in the end, the kid is proven right and the parent was wrong.
Well, my wife (who really doesn’t watch that much TV either) usually switches between Lifetime and Hallmark. Hallmark isn’t strictly for women — the chickflicks on there are the kind of sweet, old-fashioned romances that you really don’t expect to see anyplace anymore. Rather wholesome, actually. Lifetime has several types of films: the psycho woman — often a nanny/babysitter — who is after someone else’s husband; the psycho woman who steals someone else’s baby; the man who has several wives and households going at once, and it doesn’t turn out well for him in the end; the “my daughter is a tramp” film; and the “disease of the week” film. They are all very predicatable and, if I happen to be watching, at the 10 minute point I will give my prediction about how it is all going to turn out. Usually I am right.
The one I found interesting was called “My Little Assassin”, in which a young American woman in the 1960’s goes to Cuba to help with the revolution and gets knocked up by Fidel. The Cubans sedate her, induce labor, deliver the baby, and ship her back to the U.S. She is told the baby died. Some years later, the CIA gets hold of her, tells her the truth, and recruits her to kill Fidel. She doesn’t, of course; just as she is about to pull the trigger, Fidel tells her: “You cannot keel Fidel. No one can keel Fidel.” That could be a “men are scum” movie. So could the Drew Peterson film.
Lifetime seems to be pretty evenhanded in dealing with the psychopathologies of men and women. To my knowledged, my wife has never watched We, and I haven’t either — so that could be more a man-hating, men-are-scum channel.
I missed that one, but I saw the ads!
Trust me, if you are a grown man you can’t :). But, weren’t we so much younger and romantic then?
Women are like guns. If you keep one around long enough, you're going to want to shoot it.
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“Don’t get me started on Disney movies, where the kid disobeys the parent, but in the end, the kid is proven right and the parent was wrong.”
Excellent point. We engaged in serious debriefing after any
Disney encounter. I think we took the oldest one to Disney once when he was about 4 and that was the last and only time.
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