See, I wouldn't have even thought about SiL as a romantic comedy, I admit. Possibly because it was actually vaguely romantic and reasonably funny, ironically enough.
"Romantic comedy," to me, means movies like There's Something About Mary, or that current one with Gerard Butler (The Ugly Truth, I think?) and that ilk, filled with sexist stereotypes and stalking behavious presented as romantic because hey, taking no for an answer is for losers, and persuing a girl no matter how many times she turns you down just shows how much you love her! And then there's the heterocentrism and the ever-present message that you're not a whole, adult person until you're part of a couple (this is a particular hobbyhorse for me, I admit), and ugh. >:(
Couple that with the fact that the "comedy" in romantic comedies is of the sitcom vaiety, and I cannot watch sitcoms because of my embarassment squick, and yeah.
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Date: 2009-07-31 09:51 am (UTC)"Romantic comedy," to me, means movies like There's Something About Mary, or that current one with Gerard Butler (The Ugly Truth, I think?) and that ilk, filled with sexist stereotypes and stalking behavious presented as romantic because hey, taking no for an answer is for losers, and persuing a girl no matter how many times she turns you down just shows how much you love her! And then there's the heterocentrism and the ever-present message that you're not a whole, adult person until you're part of a couple (this is a particular hobbyhorse for me, I admit), and ugh. >:(
Couple that with the fact that the "comedy" in romantic comedies is of the sitcom vaiety, and I cannot watch sitcoms because of my embarassment squick, and yeah.
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