Hollywood And Lame Attempts At Feminism

You know the world has changed when Bond is a whining Emo with lady trouble. These days, Hollywood has to cover it's ass when portraying women. No more Pussy Galore. Instead it's Jinx being a sidekick and an equal. Hollywood blockbusters are quite rightly updating their portrayal of the modern woman and leaving behind the days where the woman was just eye candy. There's still plenty of it about, but these days the eye candy must have a brain and be a match for the hero and usually show him up at least once.

As this welcome progress continues (and still has some way to go), it seems acceptable for men to be portrayed as bumbling philandering idiots or vacuous brainless sex objects, who are to be pitied for their puerile tastes, their passion for nothing but sport, beer and women and their immature attitude to love and life. You want examples? Sex & The City, Failure To Launch, How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days. Come to think of it, almost anything with Sarah Jessica Horseface and Matthew McSurferDude.

We realise there have been one dimensional portrayals of women throughout cinema history and maybe the fellas are just getting their dues but while male-driven films are regularly chastised for not portraying women in 3 dimensions (shouldn't there be 15 dimensions for women?), nothing is said about the portrayal of men in rom-coms. Take a film like Knocked Up, which faced claims of misogyny for supposedly portraying women in an unflattering light. Correct us if we're wrong but didn't Knocked Up eventually agree that the man had to change, that he had the wrong attitude, that the woman was essentially right?! Didn't they portray the women with several dimensions of maturity and depth despite the fact that yes, one of those dimensions included a caricature of the shrill castrator of male freedom. While this might not have been overly flattering, the film didn't ultimately conclude by condemning women for such an attitude. In fact, if a film's point of view can ultimately be assessed by how it condludes, Knocked Up almost endorsed it.

So in honour of Hollywood's more lame attempts at ticking the boxes and placating the finger-waggers in the broadsheets, Here is Hollywood's 5 Saddest Attempts At Feminism. Enjoy. And if there's any women out there, feel free to take us to task.