Blog 7

Movie Review:

He's Just Not That Into You is one of the most recent movies I have seen in theaters. Like the title implies, it is advertised as a movie that teaches women how to discern when a man isn't interested in her. I think that this theme is a little sad in and of itself although I did enjoy the movie. The advertisements make it seem like women are absolutely clueless when it comes to dating and men in general. There is a "helpful guy" in the movie who, out of the goodness of his heart, tells his friend whenever she should move on to the next guy because this one obviously thinks shes useless. This movie has many stereotypical characters in it, such as "i can sleep with whoever I want, even if I'm married guy" and "dependent, constantly trying to please men, I need someone else to make me happy, clingy girl" There was however a few non stereotypical roles too which I found refreshing. This movie definitely backed up many of the stereotypical gender roles in America today but it looked at them in a different way and made some of them seem ridiculous.

Response to Reading:

Chapter 7 in the F-Word was mainly about marriage and relationships. The author shared that nearly half of all marriages end in divorce and I think this is such a shame. People don't get married for the right reasons now and now that there is no stigma attached to divorce, there is nothing holding marriages together anymore. Marriage is not respected. It is treated as something that can be easily tossed aside, like an old pair of shoes. Many women seem to not get married simply to show the world that they are independent and don't need a man to make them happy. There is nothing wrong with that I suppose but I personally think that one doesn't have to remain single to maintain their independence. Marriage should enhance both partners lives, not hinder or degrade either one.

I enjoyed reading the Feminist Parenting article in FIFE, I felt like it brought up some very good points from the other side. It's nice for women to own up to their own contributions in spreading sexist thinking and even abusing children. I think one of the things that bothers me about feminist thinking is that it seems extremely one-sided sometimes and men seem to be scapegoats a lot.