The Stepford Wives (2004)

well, to be honest, any self-respecting woman married to a fat, lazy, drooling idiot deserves misery. a strong woman needs a strong man, and any woman holding on to a man like that probably has some issues that need resolving, and therefoere isn't as strong or healthy as she wants to appear. perhaps she has a need to be seen as superior to her man, instead of an equal? therefore she chose a man she instictiviely knows to be beneath her? i did that once, i needed to control a man. i got over it, moved on, and got an equal. life's much better now.

 

RE: i did that once, i needed to control a man. i got over it, moved on, and got an equal. life's much better now.

The vast majority of your peers have not moved on from that stage.

Look at how you're conditioned. Romance novels - by page 10 we learn that Adrienne Storme, flame haired wild eyed beauty, has an anatagonist in devilishly handsome, strong, rugged alpha male yet rakish Blake Rockjaw. By page 50 they start to subconsciously like each other. By page 200 he's literally her lap dog.

In fact, the quintessential chick book is that Jane Austen novel in which the plain girl falls for the aloof, powerful dark haired laird of the manor who ends up a blinded cripple being fed pablum with a spoon by her, dependent on her in every way and helpless.

 

are you saying that you are not conditioned as well? perhaps what you see as a "lapdog" is actually just a man who's seen the benefit of compromise and working together. yeah, there are lapdog men out there, i've got one brother who does that. hey, whatever, more power to him, he's got an heiress and a beautiful little girl. but i've also got another brother who's so determined to run every female's life that every girlfriend he's ever had has ended up with an eating disorder. he cautioned me not to "use my pregnancy" to get outta work. WTF? his wife was on STRICT bedrest to avoid DEATH. but he took that to mean that she still coulda got up to cook dinner and do the dishes and laundry. what a prick.

however, i'm not supposed to be out and about at all. very difficult pregnancy. should i not behave, i'm going to end up either in the hospital or with a home nurse that we can't afford. so dave has to do the shopping and laundry. when i call to request the things we need, he cathes hell from the men at the office for being a pushover. it's just not so. since i'm risking my life for our child, dave still considers this an equal division of labor. but james, misogynist that he is, would never understand that.

 

i think its hilarious! one big joke...lol..i love that people get offended by it..its just abig laugh really lol

 

I thought it was a good movie for entertainment's sake, and to be honest, it was equally insulting to both women AND men. Since there was a balance in that area, I had no problem with the movie.

 

I think that both feminism and anti-feminism are rather, well... STUPID concepts. You've got men who have split things off and barred women from them; which, is completely idiotic. And then, you have the feminists, who do the very same thing... So, rather than closing the gender and sex gap, everybody who joins either side is helping to spread that gap.

Chairwoman, just sounds stupid... "man" is a part of "woman" for crying out loud. I can't stand it when girls don't help out with certain things "because they're girls." I'm a girl too, but, that doesn't mean I can't move something heavy... or, at least help to. Then, some girls tend to speak poorly of men and treat them as such; all of it is ridiculous arrogance and aloofness perpetuated by the idea of competition.

The sexes/genders are equal; both sides deserve mutual courtesy. I hold the door open for both men and women; I'm nothing special, and neither is anybody else, really.

 

good point, byrd. i like it.