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Misandronistic (CONTAINS SPOILERS)


I know this was a comedy, but did any one else find this extremely misandronistic? There's a line in the movie that Grace has about how it's always the men that ruin everything in her family. What a hateful thing to say.
Also, why doesn't Gloria mind that her mother be-headed her father (al-Quaeda style)? She ended up forming a huge bond with her father's murderer...gross! The daughter, Holly, had the bright idea to keep her mother's infidelity from her father. What an awful thing for a girl to do to her father.
If you ask me, the women in this family are all insane. The grandmother is obviously crazy, being a serial-killer and all, but her daughter is an adulterer who is willing to abandon her husband and children for sexcapades in Mexico. The granddaughter, Holly, is a "nymphomaniac" slut according to her won mother, Gloria. The women all conspired to hide dead bodies and pull the wool over the poor Reverend's eyes and it makes me sick. This movie is an insult to sane and self-respecting women.

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In terms of insulting sane and self-respecting women, this movie has nothing on Stepford Wives.

I love Keeping Mum, as a sane and self-respecting woman.

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'In terms of insulting sane and self-respecting women, this movie has nothing on Stepford Wives.

I love Keeping Mum, as a sane and self-respecting woman.'


The stepford Wives was a pop at lazy men who want their wives to be perfect as they can't handle feminism or are completely useless at things other than their job - they don't want a wife, they want a slave as they are so detached from normal life they can't handle relationships.

P.S. If you loved this terrible attempt at a 'black' comedy, I question your sanity and your standards.

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I see your points, but, it's a movie! As with most movies, check your reality at the door and enjoy it... or not. I did. The Song of Solomon was beautiful.

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"As with most movies, check your reality at the door and enjoy it... or not"

If you're constantly checking the reality at the door for the movies you see, it's probably a sign you need to see better movies.

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REF: If you're constantly checking the reality at the door for the movies you see, it's probably a sign you need to see better movies.

ANS: Perhaps so, but, name one movie that you could believe as telling the absolute truth. Movies, by definition, tell stories. They are designed to do one thing - make money. Documentaries tell the truth (sometimes).

Take care.

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I agree... the women in this film certainly aren't "role models"... lol

But the story all fits together nicely and makes a FuN dark comedy. :)

I also agree...some of the Best movies aren't very "realistic". :)

Most people just wanna to be entertained...and are kinda hoping to escape reality for a couple hours.

A film's story just has to "make sense"...not necessary be realistic.

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lol, why not star wars episode IV?
i think that was the best one

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Actually I absolutely love this movie. Sure, you wouldn't want to meet these people, but the story fits.

I don't see this as being a put down to women. Grace does indeed say "Men have been the downfall of many a Jones' woman", but that's not to say she's hating on all men. She's merely pointing out that the women in the family do tend to allow themselves to be walked over, ignored, or otherwise be confused by men.

Yes, Grace is a murderer. Mind you I'm sure that many women would feel like doing what she did to her adulterous husband. Gloria is indeed having an affair, she may not have had sex with the man yet (or at least that it what is implied), but she's allowing herself to be seduced. Unfortunately many women allow themselves to be caught up like this.

As for Gloria bonding with her father's murderer? She never knew either of her parents, so as much as she would have yearned for them all her life, she would have already been forced into emotionally coping with that loss. So now she finally finds her mother, of course she's going to want to connect with her somehow, even through the bad stuff her mother has done.

And how many children do you know would go and dob in their mother to their father? I strongly believe that honesty is always the best policy. However, we can surely understand why Holly believes it is best for her father not to know, as it would devastate him and tear the family apart.

Not everything comes down to trying to insult someone else for gender, religion, race etc. I honestly don't see this movie as trying to offend anyone, but just to make a fun yet dark story.


Why hate someone because of religion, race, gender, differing opinion etc? Get past it =/

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#1 misandronistic isn't a word. At least not according to dictionary.com. I thought maybe I was just stupid and didn't know what it meant, but obviously I'm not.
#2 If you want realistic watch a documentary.

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I would normally agree with you, in that realism and documentaries go hand-in-hand. But, a while back, I heard about the Disney documentary concerning Lemmings (I have never seen it, nor can I recall the name of the film). Seems that Disney wanted the Lemmings to 'stroll' off of the cliff, and when they didn't, the poor little things were 'helped along' (to put it nicely). I love documentaries (always have, and always will)...but, I now take them with a grain of salt.

As for the use of 'misandronistic'...unfortunately, too many people rely on the internet, than their trusty Webster's or Funk and Wagnall's. I just took a peek on Google, and while misandronistic was not listed on wiki or dictionary.com...it was used in articles by some so-called journalists and bloggers. Which is probably where the OP found it, and why he/she used it. Just another reason why one should never fully trust, or quote, what they read on the internet.

Hope everyone is having a great week! :)

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I hope you realize that "misandronistic " isn't a word. It's a word that was taken from another word and a bunch of feminist decided to make it a word.
If you can't find a word that works what you're trying to say, instead of pulling them out of your ass, try just using real words.
It's nice.

Just because you think you're smart doesn't mean you can take a word like "Misogyny" and add base root words to it and pretend it's a real word, it doesn't work like that.

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I believe somebody out there got hold of "misandrist" (or misandry) and ran with it... Misandrist is a relatively new word (at least in English) and was a follower of the older and ever in use "misogynist". Both use Greek to make their point - miso + gyne or aneer (andros).

And even though I do take issue with the poster's lack of sense of humour (it's only a movie... lighten up) - I have to say that it does make sense to turn the word into an adjective by following it's partner: miso.gyn.istic. Mis.andro.nistic does make sense - even if it doesn't inhabit the sacred pages of Webster. Perhaps if more of us turn out to be misandrists, they will have no other choice and give us misandronistic.

Anyway... it beats ginormous as a new word.

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The word is still made up.
Until it's in a dictionary, US,British or well, whatever. It's not a word.
I don't care if it has "proper" roots, it was made up by a bunch of whiny girls on their period. [I can say that because I'm a girl].

Until the word is printed in a book it's not real.
Sorry.

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the daughter prtoecting the father

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To be accurate, Grace is not a serial killer, but a multiple murderer. Serial killers murder for fun, Grace had a reason.

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Very flimsy reasons. She is still a manhating bitch. Imagine if the move was made with genders reversed. That a man who murdered his wife was seen as justified by the movie but that a man cheating on his wife was seen as a-ok and the woman's fault anyway (and thus she had to be removed by the murderous granddad) etc.
The messages in this movie are disgusting - that it's ok for a woman to murder a man if he cheats on you, that it's ok for a woman to cheat on her husband and that it's the other man's fault anyway (so he needs to be killed too) etc. Very man-hating movie indeed.

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Did you completely miss the point? It's supposed to show that genetically, these are "abnormal" women. We know this... It's not supposed to be the Cosby show. It's supposed to show the crazy, do-whatever-it-takes, strong, unafraid of the rules and consequences, I'm going to protect my own family of women

Dammit...stop looking so hard for things that aren't there!

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Except that if they were men who did these horrible things to women rather than the politically correct option portrayed in the movie there would be boycotts and protests by the feminists. But as long as it is women who cheat and murder it's a wholesome family movie.

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