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Feminist OVERtones killed this movie for me


All throughout the film men are presented as caricatures: absentee sperm donor, ass-hat ex-husbands, desperate-for-marriage square, sex seeking playboys, all to make a show of women being better off making a go of it by themselves. The story ends with one having a void filling baby, another dispensing with useless men altogether with a place mat lesbian affair,and a sabotaged from the start, fetishized unworkable arrangement between a cop and a caveman of a robber. The one fully realized male character was killed off halfway through the movie because he didn't live up to one stupid expectation (besides the other two harping on about privilege or frankness in their plethora of ideals). He was reduced to being a mere plot device for the agenda, an obstacle to be overcome for the sake of the sisterhood. Andy's character was never fully able to accept him or her attachment to him, which played in how easily she could dismiss him, and his memory.

"what is your major malfunction numbnuts?!!"

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