If this week's article were to be written now I think that it would probably address this idea of a lofty romance. Not that I do not believe in romance or anything, I would say that I am a pretty optimistic person. However, today I think that many women today read these romance novels and when they finish are usually overwhelmed with a sorrow of a longing for something that they do not have. I am not saying all women experience this, yet we do see this quite frequently in our culture today.
Something funny that acutally occurred recently reminds me of this. I went to see the movie Nights in Rodanthe with one of my roomates a while ago. We did not really find it to be a heart-warming, romantic movie, however, a lot of women in the audience I think did. When we were leaving my roomate said to me, "see all these women are probably wishing that their husband could be like that, and they're depressed because he's not. " And we just laughed as we left. Are we a little cynical? Yes, maybe. But still that thought just reminded me of the way romance is depicted today.
When referring back to our reading and the cause of female depravity, I do not think that it is the novels themselves that might lead a woman to cheat on her husband, or want something more, a better relationship, more romance. I think that we are a society that has to associate blame to something if we see something not going the way we want to, that is not always the case. It is just the human condition to have passion and long for romance. In these articles that we have read, I think that many men are scared that women can think for themselves and have a mind of their own.
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I have a couple of guy friends who don't watch "chick flicks" for exactly these reasons. They're all "That doesn't happen in real life" and "This guy is making the rest of us look like jerks!" I think it is every boyfriend’s struggle when he gets dragged to one of these movies with his girlfriend. He has to sit there while she ooohs and awwws about the movie and he has to figure out a way to come off looking just as good when they leave. Women and men for that matter want what they don't have, even if what they are lacking is mostly fictional anyway!
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