Couples Therapy

This movie is definitely the typical romantic comedy, however, it does have a bit of twist. Instead of the guy being the macho, bachelor man he is the one who is "looking for love." While she is trying to ditch the guy in 10 days. The scene when Ben and Andie go to couples' therapy does show two different extremes of men and women. He becomes the extreme man who feels the need to prove his masculinity, while she feels the need to know that he wants a serious commitment.
Andie seems to have multiple personalities and is the control freak girlfriend who is only satisfied at the idea of meeting his family. The two almost reverse what they are trying to do until the end of the session. In the beginning, Andie wants to fix the relationship,while Ben seems to try and push her away, the typical male/female roles in a romantic comedy. Then the "shrink" suggests a family weekend and all of sudden the roles are back to what they were trying to do in the first place, Ben trying to make Andie fall in love with him and Andie hesitant toward too much closeness.
Couples' therapy shows extremes to both ends of the masculine and feminine sides going from macho man to commitment man, and commitment girl to the girl afraid of commitment.

Snow White-Seen and not heard, unless she's singing...

I as well thought this was unbearable to sit through. Even though I am told that this was my favorite book, princess, movie, etc. as a child. It was very simple in many ways yet very complex in a whole other context. The scene that stuck out the most to me and offended my feminist sensibilities was when she was in the forest apologizing to the animals for "making such a fuss". I am well aware that this mentality was common place in the 30s and 40s. My grandmother who is still here at 81 has always thought and never kept it to herself that a womans place is in the home. Her responsibilties includes but are not limited to cleaning, taking care of the children, and dinner is on the table at 5pm. You only speak when spoken to, and never and I mean never cause of scene.

Snow|White became responsible for taking care of these "children" and the home they lived in. As if it was her sole purpose in life. And that misconception is still around today. In my late twenties I am asked by peer, family, clients why am I not married and why don't I have children. As if it is the only thing worth doing. I have never bought into this ideology and have spent most of my life rebelling against it. It is very disturbing that these are the underlying messages/images children are absorbing.

Women in Snow White

I was surprised to see that Snow White was so dependent upon others. In the entire movie she never made one decision herself, when the hunter told her to hide in the forest she ran until the scenery scared her so badly she fell to the ground and cried all night, had the woodland creatures not come to her rescue and bring her to a house full of men I think she would have laid there and starved to death. Throughout the movie she was obsessed with the idea of waiting for her true love to come find her and take her away to live a perfect life together. This really turned out great for her because she allowed herself to be naive enough to eat a poisoned "magical apple" in hopes she could wish her prince to find her. When he eventually found her, she barely stuck around to say goodbye to the dwarfs who built her a beautiful coffin and who devotedly looked after herup until the day the prince took her away.