I Hate Dramas

Reading through this article , I noticed that they make the same mistake as pretty much everyone else when talking about movies and entertainment- assuming women only like dramas, or romantic movies, or lighthearted fun. I’m not going to see Amelia. Why? Because it looks BORING. Amelia was an amazing person, one who I respect and admire. But if I’m going to spend money on a movie, I want something with action, comedy, maybe someone in a cape. I’m not into dramas.

The main offending comment was "Girls don’t grow up reading comic books or playing video games, or with Transformer or G.I. Joe toys." What? I grew up on all of that. Well not G.I. Joe (an ex-marine father who became disillusioned with the military wouldn’t have taken very kindly to those toys, not that I was ever really interested in them), but the rest I all love! Why won’t anyone pay attention to the fact that some girls and women DO love video games, that we DO read comics and like robots?

But no, apparently since I have a vagina, I must want to go to a drama, and take in something deep. I must want pop stars and princesses and movies about falling for a dominating man. Which, in itself is problematic- there’s no movies about heterosexual couples with the female as the dominant or strong-willed partner, and if there is it’s only for comedic effect. But that’s another article.

Point being, if I’m going to a movie, I want to laugh, and I want to see some car chases or fights. Hell, if it hadn’t been for the really unnecessary rape scene, I would’ve been first in line for Observe and Report (but, you know … there was a rape scene. So I passed).

In short, I ask that people stop pretending that women only like dramas and romance. Even feminists do this, which constantly boggles the mind. Spider-Man can’t be a movie for women? Mama Mia can’t be a movie for men? I think the solution here is to stop making movies "for men" or "for women" and just work on universal appeal, or at the very least drop these dumb assumptions about what males and females enjoy.