(beep) (screaming) (jazzy intro) How does it feel to be the same sex as Donald Trump? How does it feel to be the same sex as Sarah Palin? How does it feel to be the same sex as Michelle Bachman? How does it feel to be the same sex as anybody you disagree with? Why does it even matter whether or not you're the same gender as somebody else? I mean, I'm also the same gender as Abraham Lincoln, Einstein, and the guy who introduced chocolate to the Western world. So what are you even getting at with this question? Are you trying to say Donald Trump is bad, and Donald Trump is a man, therefore men are bad? Why do you hate rom-coms? Or do you just feel like you need to hate them? Everybody likes The Notebook, everybody likes Beyoncé. It's just a fact. Men hate romantic comedies for the same reason you hate video games with over-sexualized female characters. The men in these movies are always willing to sacrifice their careers, their dreams, even their lives to win the lead females' affection. Now I don't have any empirical data to back this up, but it seems to me that romantic comedies and romance movies in general cause women to have unrealistic expectations of men and what love should be like, and these become the expectations that men have to live up to, and it's unfair. Feminists like to bitch about poor representation of women in media intended for men because they promote body issues and shit like that And I agree, to at least, an extent But it's not any better for men When we're expected to be Prince Charming, ready and willing to sacrifice themselves physically, mentally, and emotionally And we're called selfish for daring to have our own desires or even misogynistic for daring to draw attention to our own problems. These movies appeal to the female fantasy of having a night in shining armor swear their entire existence to pleasing them, and thus reinforce these notions within their target audience of women like you that you somehow deserve to have your boyfriends and husbands give up everything that makes them who they are and basically dehumanize themselves for your pleasure and devote 100% of their time and energy to you. The fact that some of you watching this are scoffing at what I just said only proves my point. You have fooled yourself into thinking that I'm somehow the one whose being selfish when I object to the notion that men should be expected to cave into all of your demands, for the sake of your perverted idealistic conception of love. And I have no doubts that some of you will accuse me of being bitter at some ex girlfriend for saying that, but I'm not and I will pre-emptively characterize such an argument as out cropping of the very mentality that I'm talking about. You expect all of your demands to be catered to, and any man who is unwilling or unable to cater to them must have something wrong with them. Us men are human beings with our own interests and goals, and it's selfish for you to expect us to give all that up for you. But these movies condition you to expect exactly that. And that is why we hate romantic comedies. We don't see anything romantic about them. What we see is the reinforcement of unfair and unreasonable expectations about what we should be doing with our own lives. Also, fuck Beyonce. "Why do you make women sit around and talk about men in movies when y'all easily just sit around and talk about boobs for hours? One, I don't know, maybe you should be asking that to people who rent romantic comedies you like so much, because those are the movies which have women sitting around talking about men. Or, better yet, instead of complaining about how writers depict women in their movies, maybe you should try being the change you want to see and write your own damn movie. Then you could make the female characters sit around and talk about whatever you want. Like how men are oppressing them, or how men are objectifying them or how men are such pigs, or how men spread their legs too far apart on the subway, or how men hate romantic comedies. There's nothing stopping you. Two, you're referring to the Bechdel Test, which is bullshit. All the Twilight movies pass the Bechdel Test, but I think you'd hesitate to call any of those movies "pro-feminist." Three, I don't know a single guy who ever talks about boobs for hours at a time. I think the only guys who do are medical students learning how to conduct mammograms. You want to know what most of the men I know talk about? Movies, video games, politics, religion, music, sports, cars, boats, technology, work, guns, hunting, places they've been to, people they've met, and so on. The subject of boobs actually rarely ever comes up. Contrary to what you may have been told in your Women's Studies class, men don't think about sex constantly. If we did, we would never have invented the camera equipment you used to make this video. Four. If anybody's talking about boobs for hours at a time, it's feminists. You're the ones who are always whining about the designs of fictional characters, complaining that fat girls' tits are too big. And in all honesty, the only time I ever even think about a comic book character's tits is when I hear a feminist bring it up. So I think maybe you're projecting. "Why do you automatically assume that you won't like the TV or movies that star a female lead?" I don't. In fact, some of my favorite movies and TV shows have female leads. I don't know a single man who has ever scoffed at the notion of watching a movie or TV show just because it has a female protagonist. However, I have seen feminists scoff at anything with a male lead. "Why are you surprised when women are funny?" "I'm probably funnier than you!" I'm not surprised when women are funny. There are plenty of funny women out there. [names not recognized], et cetera. But I will say that, in general, women are not as funny as men, and I think most women won't agree with that statement. I also think there's a reason for this.