Wednesday, August 24, 2005
The secret revealed: How not to be a 40-year-old virgin
Went out last night to see The 40-Year-Old Virgin. It's a funny movie; I laughed at just about every scene, a rare thing in a comedy. It's all about sex, though, so not for the very young or the faint-of-heart or prudish (you know who you are). I was a bit uncomfortable with the way women were referred to in the movie, and they were only referred to; this is a movie that doesn't even pretend to be about women. The virgin himself was well-done, not so OTT that he was just a caricature. I've known guys very close to being this guy.
What irks me though, in this and every movie and TV show, is that the socially-challenged guy doesn't end up with a not-so-pretty or god forbid a-little-overweight woman. Of course not! He ends up with a beautiful, skinny, leggy woman. This rings all too true, unfortunately. All the lonely guys I've known were not looking to meet a nice, normal woman who might not look fabulous. They all thought they should be able to meet someone pretty/cute and of course skinny. Maybe a few more movies like Dogfight (the only one of its kind I can think of at the moment) would make it more acceptable to look at women who aren't great-looking. I agree with Bill Bob Thornton, who says that guys should look at the plain Janes a little more, cuz sometimes sex with them can be mind-blowing, whereas sex with beautiful women can be (his words) "like ^%$ing a couch".
Not that I'd know anything about that, of course.
Went out last night to see The 40-Year-Old Virgin. It's a funny movie; I laughed at just about every scene, a rare thing in a comedy. It's all about sex, though, so not for the very young or the faint-of-heart or prudish (you know who you are). I was a bit uncomfortable with the way women were referred to in the movie, and they were only referred to; this is a movie that doesn't even pretend to be about women. The virgin himself was well-done, not so OTT that he was just a caricature. I've known guys very close to being this guy.
What irks me though, in this and every movie and TV show, is that the socially-challenged guy doesn't end up with a not-so-pretty or god forbid a-little-overweight woman. Of course not! He ends up with a beautiful, skinny, leggy woman. This rings all too true, unfortunately. All the lonely guys I've known were not looking to meet a nice, normal woman who might not look fabulous. They all thought they should be able to meet someone pretty/cute and of course skinny. Maybe a few more movies like Dogfight (the only one of its kind I can think of at the moment) would make it more acceptable to look at women who aren't great-looking. I agree with Bill Bob Thornton, who says that guys should look at the plain Janes a little more, cuz sometimes sex with them can be mind-blowing, whereas sex with beautiful women can be (his words) "like ^%$ing a couch".
Not that I'd know anything about that, of course.
# posted by becca : 11:56 AM
