100 giggling women, all looking for a relaxing night with the girls. 85 mobile phones on silent mode. 62 cups of Diet Coke. 43 buckets of caramelized popcorn. 12 packets of tissues, for those with particularly high levels of internal emosonal attyachar. And 1 standard-issue chick flick, with correspondingly standard-issue character clichés, “funny enough” situations, [...]
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Posted in Feminism, Film, tagged Chick flicks, Feminism, Film, He's just not that into you, Power, Race, Social justice on February 21, 2009 | 3 Comments »
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