6 Obnoxious assumptions Hollywood makes about women.

[GothAnneGeddes]

From this very good article here: www.cracked.com/blog/6-obnoxious-assumptions-hollywood-makes-about-women/

Linked in the article was this brilliant montage of women falling over in romcoms:

Thanks GothAnne, that's an excellent blog and very funny. I hate rom-coms/chick flits anyway, but those were very astute observations. I also read Why Hollywood Hates Women and Hollywood's 5 Saddest Attempts at Feminism. Great stuff

That is a seriously good blog, thanks for sharing

Thanks for that!

Oh I like a bit of Cracked, thanks.

Thanks for that Goth - was spot on. In my perusing I found this cracked article too which explained to me why I hate "how to lose a guy in 10 days" so much...

chickflicks

Brilliant!

I must say, I wasn't that convinced...for example, reason #4 was about the female characters having dream jobs. That's problematic because the male characters are also stupidly rich, ie it's a generic hollywood issue not gender-specific. as for the montage...slapstick humour has always involved falls and I'm pretty sure you could draw up a similar montage for male leads

There are many reasons I dont like romcoms (validation only comes via love being the main one) but they are different from then ones listed in the blog, mostly

You might like Tv Tropes slhilly. Married to the job might be a nearly-relevant one.

Love it!

That is fab, trillian!

Glad you like it. I love tvtropes. It wastes time nearly as well as MN.