Femininema

It was the wee hours of the morning when most people are asleep when I was discussing favourite films with my special lady. She was telling me how much she liked some chick flick and I said "you're such a girl" when she said "yeah, but Jaws is also one of my favourites so I think that balances it out." "Oh, come on," I said, (not impersonating GOB from Arrested Development for once), "Jaws is such a chick flick. A big old feminist rallying cry about the power women have over men, and man's desire to destroy or subdue the 'vag'."

Yeah, it was said tongue in cheek and I managed to expand on it further, going deeper and deeper into lunacy (shoving a phallic air tank into an orifice and exploding, men being cut in half at the torso = emasculation, etc). When asked about the early scene in which the shark eats a woman, I said it's just the feminist going up against standards of beauty and attractiveness that the media forces upon them.

Then I started to do the same thing with Raiders of the Lost Arc, but was too tired and had a much harder time with it... something about man reclaiming his masculinity by stealing his sack back but then being overwhelmed by the power of his own testosterone represented by a giant ball rolling after him...

I dunno, goofy diatribes at 2am aren't my strong suit anymore.