It's not really the double standard that I'm interested in

[jamiam]

Poll just wondering

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[secritcrush]

I don't think there is mandated hotness of guys - a dorky guy is always ending up with a girl who is way out of his league looks wise.

[jamiam]

Yeah, I agree, and that was stated in the original article.

[jamiam]

I'm not convinced "equal time" would actually make me feel less oppressed/depressed?

[mothwentbad]

This is sort of why movies like Shallow Hal are kind of self-defeating. They don't know how to make fully rounded-out characters complete with adult personalities, so how do they show you how much *inner* beauty [I forget her name] has? By beating you over the head with how *fat* she is, naturally! How else would you ever figure it out?

Because it's a patronizing zero-sum world where we'll still make tedious fat jokes all movie long, but the good news is that you still get to be pretty *on the inside* and that's what matters.

It's not like they could just make a movie about Jack Black falling in love with a fat chick. Who would want to see that? Let's make her hot for 70% of the movie, play her fatness up for comic relief 35% of the movie, and compliment the viewer for nodding in agreement with The Message if they choose to do so.

[mothwentbad]

I guess the other problem I had with the movie was that they had a rather limited definition of "inner beauty" which included willingness to be total pushover and susceptibility to head games and general lack of self-respect. Apparently, you can't be beautiful on the inside by being a kickass singer or good with computers and having an attitude that the haters can go fuck themselves.

[mothwentbad]

I sort of had a hard time with this poll. I might've had an easier time if they were check boxes. Usually I don't feel too strongly about it because I can't do anything about it. But on the other hand, I love hot women. But on the other hand, I do feel that a large part of my upbringing was rather grossly misinformed by media intake. It's kind of sad that millions of people are working to make movies and TV about people, only you usually can't expect to actually learn about real people's real lives most of the time. There's too much escapism and general "you're *destined* to land a hot chick in the end" going around, and not enough... Tim Minchin.

[harvestar]

I do appreciate some nice Audrey Hepburn.

But really, in The Truth about Cats and Dogs, Sandra Bullock's supposed to be the plain one? WTF? Uma Thurman is more ugly!

[tithenai]

I chose "Meh" for the male hotness because so often I the man I'm supposed to find attractive is not so to me at all, so I end up lusting after the women at the same time that the mandated-ness of their hotness pisses me off.