the worst of it is when he is having sex with a girl and because she is "slutty" he says "maybe god made girls like her so that guys like me can have something to practice on." sickening and pathetic. then he says "at that moment she wasn't a slut"....but i guess at every other moment she was? *beep* horrible. i can't believe anyone would agree to be in this movie because of the ridiculously insulting and dialogue.
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I don't often comment on these types of posts but I feel that you took these quotes out of context. I just watched the movie and it seemed to stress anti-sexisim and a unity that should be formed between men and women. I'm not commenting on the quality of the film and I'm not trying to preach my own point of view...I think this is fact. Maybe you were joking but it flew over my head. Try watching the movie a second time and if you pay attention you might catch the "moral of the story".
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Absolutely not. It was a self proclaimed "nice guy" explaining women to themselves and letting men off the hook for their disgusting behavior. The protagonist was only "enlightened" when literally juxtaposed against a rapist, and even then he looks like a total scumbag. There weren't enough male characters to give us an example of what an actually decent, thoughtful, and insightful man would look like, so instead we're expected to root for a creeper who spends a semester violating and manipulating women for his own gain. And we damn sure aren't given an example of anything that even slightly resembles a living, breathing female. Just caricatures and opinionless sounding boards for his gender role-reinforcing diatribes.
shareummmm no?
I just watched this movie last night and I actually really liked it. While a total fantasy, this movie does touch upon many thoughts and views a guy goes though dealing with women. Yes it does take the perspective from one guys point of view and the narrative is subjected to prejudges that men have.
Since he knows she is a slut, he protects himself from the emotional turmoil of sleeping with a beautiful woman. He mentions her as "training wheels" because he knows nothing will come of it. He does not emotionally invest in her because first, he is in love with the mystery woman. second, dating a "slut", he will be subjected to alot of the social baggage from dating her.
If the roles were reversed and the was a girl chasing this mystery guy and met a sympathetic guy (which she knew, he slept around) and yet if she was attracted to him, would she sleep with him and think there might be a chance at a relationship?
The movie is a light-hearted look at the relationships from the guys point of view (roughly). Dont be too hard on it and call it sexist. Hey, maybe you can watch it again and think of it as a road map to one guys thought process that can relate the other guy's thought processes(roughly) ;)
If you think about it, at that point in the movie, the main character is totally unaware of how to interact with women. If you have any experience with similarly-minded men (boys), then you will know that among all those insane and incorrect thoughts is rarely a concern about the emotional toll of their beliefs and misconceptions on the women (girls) they have close relationships with. It is almost impossible for an immature male to think of a female that he is sexually involved with as a human being.
This is perfectly reflected in the voice-over. These are the thoughts in his mind before he has his awakening; his epiphany. The goal of this film was not to denigrate women, but to detail one male's development into (hopefully) a sexually mature adult. And, of course, somehow, in the process, everyone around him has the same awakening without all the work.
In the end, this movie is here to entertain. Men, boys, women, and girls, will all get something different out of it. Try to find the humor in the film, if that is even possible.
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