Bridesmaids

For EVER people were telling me that I needed to watch Bridesmaids and I regret not listening to people sooner.
 
The part that makes me sad is how much attention this movie gets for being funny AND by women! Can you even imagine that women are funny?
Duh.
Of course they're funny.
They're half the people on the planet.
Statistically, some of us might be funny.
Also, statistically, some men are not funny.
You guys, we should be so far beyond this by now.

When someone points out that something I'm involved with is, "a funny flock of females," or something equally alliterative, I appreciate it, sure, but I also want to dismiss it so quickly. It cheapens the compliment when it's conditional. Women have been making people laugh for a while. Sure. But why do we need to even address sex?
You're making me feel uncomfortable.
Take the emphasis off the gender and focus it on the joke itself.

Ok- I'll keep going...If a man were pooping in a sink would we be laughing, or would we be grossed out?
I'm a person who was sort of laughing during that scene. It was more from surprise though, than actual amusement. Had a man hopped up on the basin and shouted "LOOK AWAY!" it's very possible that I would have left the room, gagging.

There really weren't any strong male characters in this one. The cop was totally adorable, but he--along withe all the other guys- were just sort of fodder. The whole thing could have been done without them. They were bland and pretty much interchangeable. I'm imagining the whole movie done again, but with some plastic lego men in any role played by a man. Things may have just gotten a little funnier in my head.

And I think it's cheap of women to try to hitch a ride on the success of those performers. They aren't funny because they're female, but now they've got all these girls grasping to hold on and say "that's us!" that's not us. That's them. That's good writers, a talented cast, amazing costume designers. I don't feel liberated by any of it. I feel completely disconnected. I can relate to some aspects, but not because I'm a girl. It's because the themes are universal. That's why the movie was a success. because so many people could connect in some way.

It seems like they (no idea who that refers to...) are trying to make us decide whether women are funny, or men are funny. I want people to be funny. Or people can be kind of dull, and the funny can happen on it's own externally. That's okay too.

I think this goes to show that I need to watch more movies starring Hulk Hogan or geometrical pattern clothed madness.

The week before I watched this, Sam and I decided to cut my hair because the girls on Girls are so young and now I am 31. They don't have real jobs, they wear whatever they want, and they hang around with a guy you can't decide if you like. This inspired us to chop some bangs on my head. She's the only one aside from me (and the very occasional professional) that I really trust to wield scissors.

So now we've got this other movie- and the girls are actually my age- and they have cute hair too.
But we've just hacked some bangs and I'm realizing that if I'm going to watch things with Sam, I'm going to have to have to request less attractive people. Again- more Hulk Hogan. I don't want his hair.
I don't need his awesome style. I can let my own hair grow for a minute instead.


Note: I did like this movie! Apparently this reads like I didn't. I think it's less that I didn't like the way people talked about it. The movie itself, that was funny.