Sunday, November 28, 2004
And thousands of women rejoiced: "for she is back and I am she".
The Bridget Jones phenomenon always annoyed me. Women everywhere "identified" because she is so "sweet" and "haven't we all been there after all"?
Ehm, no.
I'm sure that many people have the experience of being invited as the only single person to a party otherwise entirely populated by smug couples and agreed; not on my top 1000 of things to do.
But other than that?
"But it's great the way Bridget obsesses over her weight, just like we do".
No. We obsess over our weight, because films like this tell us that it is the norm. If Bridget was chubby and never obsessed over her weight - that's where we want to be!
And ultimately, the film perpetuates the notion that we all want a man. 'Singletons' (oh ye hideous, hideous word) all over the world may have rejoiced, but is it perhaps more in the sense that if she can, we can and ohmigod if only I would be pursued by Hugh Grant and Colin Firth that is so well done and almost impossible and then they could fight over me and I could be fiercely independent and yet approachable and why do women have to cook anyway and what's all this political correctness I'll smoke if I want to and cook blue soup 'cause who says a woman is a good cook just because she's a woman?
Who says a woman shouldn't be able to cook? Reclaim the cooking! I say. Not only 50's housewives know how to cook.
And how come a woman who is slightly on the 'thick' side of things and furthermore a pain in the arse, manages to pull not one but two appealing suitors? How many of you out there are doing that ongoingly?
Some people like being in relationships.
Some people like being single.
I have no problem with either. I have a problem with the world's most dissatisfied singleton being proclaimed as role-model and mouthpiece for single women everywhere.
(And for those who ask: read the first book, saw the first film - don't want to
revisit ever again).
On another note: saw a wildly romantic film last night and talk about girl power: far sexier and lovelier and more heartwarming than the sorry Bridget-affair.
The Bridget Jones phenomenon always annoyed me. Women everywhere "identified" because she is so "sweet" and "haven't we all been there after all"?
Ehm, no.
I'm sure that many people have the experience of being invited as the only single person to a party otherwise entirely populated by smug couples and agreed; not on my top 1000 of things to do.
But other than that?
"But it's great the way Bridget obsesses over her weight, just like we do".
No. We obsess over our weight, because films like this tell us that it is the norm. If Bridget was chubby and never obsessed over her weight - that's where we want to be!
And ultimately, the film perpetuates the notion that we all want a man. 'Singletons' (oh ye hideous, hideous word) all over the world may have rejoiced, but is it perhaps more in the sense that if she can, we can and ohmigod if only I would be pursued by Hugh Grant and Colin Firth that is so well done and almost impossible and then they could fight over me and I could be fiercely independent and yet approachable and why do women have to cook anyway and what's all this political correctness I'll smoke if I want to and cook blue soup 'cause who says a woman is a good cook just because she's a woman?
Who says a woman shouldn't be able to cook? Reclaim the cooking! I say. Not only 50's housewives know how to cook.
And how come a woman who is slightly on the 'thick' side of things and furthermore a pain in the arse, manages to pull not one but two appealing suitors? How many of you out there are doing that ongoingly?
Some people like being in relationships.
Some people like being single.
I have no problem with either. I have a problem with the world's most dissatisfied singleton being proclaimed as role-model and mouthpiece for single women everywhere.
(And for those who ask: read the first book, saw the first film - don't want to
revisit ever again).
On another note: saw a wildly romantic film last night and talk about girl power: far sexier and lovelier and more heartwarming than the sorry Bridget-affair.
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