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Do I really have to be fucked over that hard to get empowered?
I agree with your caveats to the other films, but with What's Love I think it's that you CAN be fucked over that hard and get empowered. It makes her journey all the more amazing. I mean, I like An Unmarried Woman (for example0 but the achievement of self-realization when you are gorgeous, well-educated, Live in a stunning, huge apartment and and don't have to work is not nearly as impressive.
with What's Love I think it's that you CAN be fucked over that hard and get empowered
I actually think that Thelma and Louise were empowered too. I'm not knocking her story, but it would be the same eyebrow raise I'd give a black film festival I though skewed too hard to the "white man done hit us AGIN" side of the story.
Without downplaying the Sojourner Truths, I think it's too victimy. And for the movies I've seen on that list? I don't get a good haze of Girl Power.
I don't get a good haze of Girl Power.
Spice Girls not on the list?
I quite liked the first Charlie's Angels movie, actually.
So did I and the second one is cheesy fun.
I thought the first one good cheesy fun, but was disappointed. Hated the second, because they seemed to have only remembered the stuff from the first one I hated.
In fact, I think I liked Spiceworld better.
I've reread the quote " who we are, where we've been, what we can take, and better yet, what we can dish out" and yeah, I guess I'm complaining about the "what we can take" portion of the evening. Eh. It's their list. I just don't get the glow of sisterhood off of it, because I don't care to celebrate that much of what I can take (and, honestly, what I can dish out -- but Girlfight stays).
I've never seen Steel Magnolias. Do I still count as a girl?
Girlfight
Another one I have to NetFlix. I have only seen about theees much of it.
Do I still count as a girl?
Absolutely not. You won't get your girl card back until you can tell what 2 colors are Shelby's wedding colors.
t so totally kidding
Thing is, the chick flicks moniker was basically coined as a derogatory description of films which "women loved" but "real men" were not supposed to have any interest in.
That list? Not really in the groove on that definition, either.