To think so many Christmas/hallmark type films are misogynistic?

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Just seen the trailer to the new Lindsey Lohan Christmas movie and it’s annoyed me so much.

Has anyone else noticed a common theme with a lot of hallmark type movies?

A ‘career’ woman living in the city ends up in a small town for whatever reason (usually hometown).

The woman is of course childfree, shallow, rude, obsessed with materialistic things and lacks empathy.

For whatever reason the town has some challenge/is at risk. The towns people are of course all tight knit, kind hearted people and the opposite of the selfish woman.

The woman meets a local town guy who is wholesome but of course she is rude to him but is forced to spend time with him for whatever reason.

Overtime she comes to see that the people of the town are in fact good and nice people and her life of a career and city living is wrong, shallow and lacking.

So she defeats the towns problem, quits her career, falls in love with local guy and learns the error of her ways.

Silly woman, living her life in a city. Spending her hard earned money of designer clothes and holidays. At least now she’s back where she belongs to crack on making babies and supporting everyone else.

Am I being unreasonable to think this narrative is way over done and needs to stop?

Yes indeed !

"Am I being unreasonable to think this narrative is way over done and needs to stop?"

Yes you are, how else will I spend hours watching cheesy rubbish films on hallmark channel?

Loads of the films involve the stupid city man too - meeting a down to earth festive girl who turns his life around (normally an event planner or similar) who makes him realise business isn't everything and festivities are where the heart belongs rather than being a ride city Scrooge.

Imo they're all feel good cheese covered movies and I love them regardless of their bad plots 😂

Haha sounds like exactly the sorta cheesy shit I may have to watch!

It says it's about a spoilt heiress?

These type of films are my guilty pleasure 😳

Yep it’s terrible. I hated Sweet Home Alabama for the same reason. Silly woman, going and getting an education and a career. Don’t you know women are meant to be barefoot and pregnant, or maybe working as a waitress in a diner if they are the town floozy?

Yess this is exactly my thoughts!!

@Devoutspoken @Tiredmum100 I’m more of a grinch kind of woman as you can tell😭😭

These films are terrible but I'm completely addicted to them. I'm a proud feminist but I worry about my internalised misogyny sometimes 😬

I really enjoy them! It's just a bit of fun. How would you rather the independent, single, child-free woman's life panned out then @MoneyTalks202

YABU, I love those films, they're so comforting and homely!

Being a high flying career woman is totally overrated anyway. Who wouldn't want to live a quiet life in a cosy village?!

Ahh, I think they're actually quite diverse these days.

There's actually one from pre-Megxit days, with an American mixed race woman marrying a prince, that's a goldmine. The woman looks a LOT like Meghan - it's prescient!
m.imdb.com/title/tt2838678/

There's lots that are aimed at men giving up their careers for the spirit of Christmas too. Plus LGBT versions etc.

Yep I watched a nice one about a man going home for Xmas from his big city law job and meeting his ex boyfriend who was maybe a local gym teacher and guess what happened!!

(He opened a local law office I think)

I like the film 'management' with Jennifer anniston which is about meeting in the middle as both country hick and city slicker realise they need each other.

Generally, I love those type of films though

• it is often men that are 'made to realise the error of their previous ways' not just women.

Random bullet point there.

That she had fun in the village, realised there was a gap in the market for her business. Set up a branch there, returned to her city life with her new found country skills of homemade jams.
The love interest decides to also move to the city with her as he realises although his hometown is cosy, they are small minded and quite non-diverse. They compromise and live in the suburbs!

Together they live their life of luxury with tons of pets!

Can't argue with you, totally predictable, unrealistic and often sexist, but somehow I love them and will watch any old Hallmark Xmas crap. I was off sick for a couple of days last Dec and had a marvellous time watching the Xmas channel. Really looking forward to the Lindsey Lohan film!

There is usually a widower with a cute kid. Often a vet! Or an inn owner

Nowadays it's often a nice gay couple who own the bakery or coffee shop (why not the. Mayor married to the chief fireman!)

I watched one last year, a wherlchaired lead (she was also in glee) and she was a successful author. Her wheelchair was barely mentioned which was nice. No one had to rescue her at any point.

Oh but they're such a guilty pleasure. Being a tough city career woman is fucking knackering.

Channel 5 had a load of these films around Christmas. None of them are going to win an Oscar, but some are entertaining to watch, sitting on the sofa with a drink and some nice chocolate

"It's a Wonderful Life"
Well, it was until the smart, single librarian met that fella with all his kids.
Suddenly her eyesight improved so she didn't need to wear spectacles anymore, she gave up her career and threw in her lot to be the drudge and do all the house keeping for the stupid bloke and his kids and it was all happily ever after.
Aye right. That shit can get to fuck.

Lest we forget, the greatest Christmas story of them all, A Christmas Carol, is all about a man giving up his miserly business approach and re-embracing his family.

That's really the story that all of these are grafted on.

The royal ones all seem to have an unpleasant MIL Queen Something or Other who wants her princely son to marry Lady Arabella Amelia Victoria of Some Made-up French Name who is equally unpleasant. Or so I've heard.

Aren't these films the equivalent of say a Jason statham action movie. But with snow, and a nice widowed vet with cute child and sone mild peril.
And and they probably have a plot you could explain to people in sone detail! I watch a lot of js movies and the plot is minimal in those -some bad man wronged him is probably as good as it gets.

I’ve seen the trailer and cannot wait to watch it 😆