I was procrastinating/looking at some movie trailers, when I came across this gem, a trailer for the movie "The Ugly Truth" The poster itself is very classy, featuring the bathroom icons for female and male, with little hearts in them. The heart for the female is in her head, and guess where the heart for the male is? Yup in his crotch, echoing the old myth that women love emotionally, whereas men love with their groin. The movie itself looks like a heap of misogynistic doodie, the basic plot featuring a woman who is way too picky (tsk, doesn't she know she just needs to suck it up and settle down) and thus left "hopelessly single" (oh no she might become an old maid! AIIEEE!) Fate has it that she is a tv producer, and a new show she must manage stars a slobby looking sexist guy telling the ladies how to get a man (with shining examples of class such as "get on the treadmill!") Obviously by the end she'll probably realize he was the one for her all along. Now excuse me while I go barf up a storm.
(Yes I know one can't judge a book by its cover, but seeing as trailers are extensively detailed these days, I think I get the jist of the movie.)
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I cringed in my seat watching this trailer! Everything about it was sexist.
So what this appears to me to be is another one of those "bitchy career woman who needs a good lay gets her comeuppance" type things. Hopefully when this opens women will stay home from theaters in droves.
It gets worse. Click on the link at this post for a brief description of the background on this film.
Wow...I was not expecting that. Out of all the offensive rubbish in that trailer, I think the worst is the fact that this hollywood vomit is peddled as the "truth." I can hear masses of dipshits agreeing with those sentiments and reaffirming their prejudices as we speak..."it's so true!"
thank you for reminding me why I never turn on my TV anymore.
to better understand such travesties go here:
http://www.womenandhollywood.com/statistics-on-women-and-hollywood/