tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6574772.post8853486698358442569..comments2023-05-13T08:06:53.033-04:00Comments on Prettier Than Napoleon: Random Roundup: Our Bodies, NO REALLY, OURS Edition.Amberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11792206117772893217noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6574772.post-23802514517975013002010-03-19T11:59:00.339-04:002010-03-19T11:59:00.339-04:00Seriously though, without seeing the movie, I figu...Seriously though, without seeing the movie, I figured the fact that they don't end up together because she wasn't interested and she continued not to be interested for 500 days means that the movie was trying to make a pretty precise point here.Nick Chttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08099375758289859323noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6574772.post-43670919999666082342010-03-19T11:55:31.456-04:002010-03-19T11:55:31.456-04:00See, you're worried about non-wise viewers get...See, you're worried about non-wise viewers getting the wrong message, but from the production side of things it's a brilliant multilayered film for everyone! Nice Guys get to mope in shared misery, Feministas get to rage at the system and a culture that would produce a film celebrating Dudes sighing waiting for their Princess to come astride a white unicorn, and Wise Viewers get to sigh Nick Chttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08099375758289859323noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6574772.post-48482223098962561472010-03-19T10:31:40.241-04:002010-03-19T10:31:40.241-04:00It's always being funny/weird to me how there ...It's always being funny/weird to me how there is always a streak of puritanism (in various forms) that seems to run through american politics (both left and right) to this day.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03537981274809055415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6574772.post-40329701857260273742010-03-18T23:45:12.986-04:002010-03-18T23:45:12.986-04:00Exactly. But to a certain kind of high-strung fem...Exactly. But to a certain kind of high-strung feminist, like this blogger, being a douche is tantamount to being a misogynist. I'm honestly surprised she didn't go <a href="http://www.amptoons.com/blog/archives/2009/09/03/the-nice-nazi%E2%84%A2/" rel="nofollow">Full Zoller</a> on us.Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13864128910885006535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6574772.post-29751138683677241832010-03-18T23:11:23.335-04:002010-03-18T23:11:23.335-04:00Also, the guy was a complete douche (but not a mis...Also, the guy was a complete douche (but not a misogynist) for a while after the "breakup". It was fairly obvious that the movie was about a guy who had to face the reality that real relationships aren't going to be like the fairy tale version he had in his head, and not about a guy who got his heart broken by a bitch. Unless one is being willfully obtuse it doesn't take a Wise Hei Lunhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10083568615204870688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6574772.post-81281459042531753972010-03-18T19:37:38.527-04:002010-03-18T19:37:38.527-04:00setting up an unreliable Nice Guy(tm) misogynist n...<i>setting up an unreliable Nice Guy(tm) misogynist narrator</i><br /><br />I know you haven't seen the movie, but it's a ridiculous overstatement to call the character misogynist.Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13864128910885006535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6574772.post-31076692527117399092010-03-18T19:24:33.335-04:002010-03-18T19:24:33.335-04:00Maybe it means that period blood doesn't smell...Maybe it means that period blood doesn't smell different than normal blood. That's kind of besides the point (smelling like blood at all is weird). And I don't even know if that would be true, if you were really paying attention.Jeffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02793762404826571173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6574772.post-58972766153672112182010-03-18T19:21:29.548-04:002010-03-18T19:21:29.548-04:00Wait, which myth are you questioning, the shark on...Wait, which myth are you questioning, the shark one? I'm confused.<br /><br />I'd say the problem with the 'Myths' page is more her clearly-shilling-for-Kotex lie about skipping periods, etc.; young women would do better to head over to http://thewelltimedperiod.blogspot.com/<br /><br />Also, @Hei Lun: haven't seen 500DoS, not going to, but the problem with setting up an X.Trapnelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16331820913539099727noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6574772.post-382090849304662642010-03-18T13:57:55.811-04:002010-03-18T13:57:55.811-04:00Hari does seem to regard the bridenapping system a...Hari does seem to regard the bridenapping system as a human rights outrage.<br /><br />I doubt that if two white Americans or Western Europeans were kissing in Dubai, they would get more than a verbal chiding. There's more punishment being inflicted on the Indians for kissing than on <a href="http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1398204.ece" rel="nofollow">British people who have PGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09381347581328622706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6574772.post-66515053257191948012010-03-18T10:06:07.029-04:002010-03-18T10:06:07.029-04:00Completely agreed with Hei; despite some reasonabl...Completely agreed with Hei; despite some reasonably good commentary about intimacy expectations in the middle, #1 is an obtuse, pre-programmed misinterpretation of the movie. "Summer" is a movie about Tom's experience with getting his heart broken, not so much because of any wrong-doing by Summer, but because he totally set himself up for it. <br /><br />It's possible -- even Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13864128910885006535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6574772.post-39353186942856997842010-03-18T01:47:54.193-04:002010-03-18T01:47:54.193-04:00Re #1: I agree with some of the commenters who mak...Re #1: I agree with some of the commenters who make the point that the JGL character isn't a reliable narrator and that it's more likely that the movie is trying to say that he reacted poorly to the whole situation rather than Summer being a bitch. Seems to me the Tiger Beatdown writer is just looking to be offended by something.Hei Lunhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10083568615204870688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6574772.post-63489003156642435892010-03-17T21:37:59.875-04:002010-03-17T21:37:59.875-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Ted Frankhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10486771226983390342noreply@blogger.com