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Hollywood has made billions of dollars producing movies that have been coined, “chic flicks.” The general plot of these movies consists of a girl fretting over a guy who has somehow completely managed to ruin her life and then proceeds to call her girlfriends to have some serious “girl talk” over coffee at Starbucks, with their Coach bags and Prada shoes. I was once dragged to one of these “chic flicks” and found it to be the most insulting thing I had ever seen. We went to see How to Lose a Guy In 10 Days. The movie is about a journalist who agrees to write a firsthand account of all the things women do to drive away men; she has to find a guy, make him fall in love with her, then lose him--all in 10 days. I was actually forced to sit through this movie and watch as Hollywood mocked every fault the male sex possesses. We try our best to please women, though we know it is nearly impossible. Women are too hard on men and extremely picky. I would like society to realize that unlike popular belief, men are not the bad guys. I could easily rehash every bad date I have ever been on and list two pages of the pointless apologies I have had to give to women throughout the night just to get a simple, “Thank you” at the end. Though, concentrating on the night I spent in the theatre, I realized that our society seems to think it is the men that have been supporting the Kleenex industry, not the women. This could not be more than wrong. I sat in the theatre that night a little chilly, from the cool breeze coming from outside and antsy from having to sit for two hours.
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