What I don't understand is why people take a relatively reasonable argument about sexism in the contemporary movies and turn it into a personal attack on themselves, friends, parenting methods, the entire nation of men, etc. etc.
What I took from the article was that many of the themes, characters and story lines found in those films represent a fairly sexist viewpoint. Films that don't allow women to be anything but someone's wife, girlfriend or act as a perpetual damsel in distress. I think its safe enough to claim that these notions are a tad bit outdated. And I think that the biggest concern is that these movies glorify or normalize all of those notions.
After all having the reduction of a woman's intellect and self control (such as in Super Ex-girlfriend) is much less seriously taken in the guise of a comedy but in many ways society still views women as over emotional feelers prone to neurotic behavior. After all who here has not heard or been told (or even said about themselves) that someone is "PMS'ing". That being said I'm glad I'm not the only one who found Sin City sexist (and if pretty cinematography equated to a good movie then one could argue that a number of crap movies were good) and thought that Super Bad wasn't really all that clever.
Oh and on a final note, don't you think the media and societies view of Paris Hilton and the "tragic" young starlets to be representitive of sexism? After all no one comments in such negative ways about...say Colin Farrel's (an acknowledged alcoholic and playboy) or Owen Wilson's (a.k.a Butterscotch Stallion) hard partying ways with such disdain or disrespect.
What I don't understand is why people take a relatively reasonable argument about sexism in the contemporary movies and turn it into a personal attack on themselves, friends, parenting methods, the entire nation of men, etc. etc.
What I took from the article was that many of the themes, characters and story lines found in those films represent a fairly sexist viewpoint. Films that don't allow women to be anything but someone's wife, girlfriend or act as a perpetual damsel in distress. I think its safe enough to claim that these notions are a tad bit outdated. And I think that the biggest concern is that these movies glorify or normalize all of those notions.
After all having the reduction of a woman's intellect and self control (such as in Super Ex-girlfriend) is much less seriously taken in the guise of a comedy but in many ways society still views women as over emotional feelers prone to neurotic behavior. After all who here has not heard or been told (or even said about themselves) that someone is "PMS'ing". That being said I'm glad I'm not the only one who found Sin City sexist (and if pretty cinematography equated to a good movie then one could argue that a number of crap movies were good) and thought that Super Bad wasn't really all that clever.
Oh and on a final note, don't you think the media and societies view of Paris Hilton and the "tragic" young starlets to be representitive of sexism? After all no one comments in such negative ways about...say Colin Farrel's (an acknowledged alcoholic and playboy) or Owen Wilson's (a.k.a Butterscotch Stallion) hard partying ways with such disdain or disrespect.