June 20, 2009
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6.20/2009
First and foremost, I have to say that I was bored today and I started watching 27 Dresses. Now, after I got that out there.... I have two main questions. Firstly, why are chick-flicks insanely boring? Not only are their romantic comedies banal and not really funny, but they always seem to have a bit of surrealism to them. The surrealism I'm talking about comes in the forms of random sex that happens in each of them. Here's the general plot: Girl meets guy (who is generally an asshole, but I'll come back to that point later), girl doesn't recognize him as the "guy for her," girl warms up to guy (generally has random sex with him), there's a climax (most often the guy does something "horrible" and later has to make up for it or explain what he meant), girl and guy make up, girl and guy get married. What kind of message are these movies promoting to young women? Firstly, they're promoting an asshole as the ideal guy. Sometimes its a guy who casually insults the main character, other times it's a cheating man who she must come to accept. Secondly, they're normalizing sleeping around with these men.
It's sad, really.
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