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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.