Posts Tagged bridesmaids

By Lori Adelman • 12 years ago

Guest post: Slate writers’ defense of Bridesmaids misses the mark

This is a guest post by Silpa Kovvali.

In response to my recent post about the prevalence of tired stereotypes in the comedy Bridesmaids, Double X’s Amanda Marcotte writes:

 The recent explosion of prominent women in comedy has brought with it an unfortunate but predictable debate about whether or not the characters that have resulted from all these women scribbling and acting are Good For Women. Of course, the underlying assumption of the question is that women have a bad reputation in the general public and media should therefore portray us in uplifting ways to counter negative stereotypes, which in turn means that the question answers itself: If a female character has flaws, then that is Bad For ...

This is a guest post by Silpa Kovvali.

In response to my recent post about the prevalence of tired stereotypes in the comedy Bridesmaids, Double X’s Amanda Marcotte writes:

 The recent explosion of prominent women ...
By Samhita • 12 years ago

Bridesmaids becomes top earning R-rated female comedy.

There were conflicting opinions about this year’s gal pal hit Bridesmaids and while I didn’t think it was perfect, I thought it was pretty damn clever and groundbreaking. Well, apparently, the American public agrees as Bridesmaids is now the top rated female comedy ever surpassing Sex and the City and is also Judd Apatow’s highest grossing film outshining Taladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby–omg it’s a real life funny movie now, not just for the girls! This could either be because fart and poop jokes are funny irrespective of gender or (gasp) the world is changing and women as complex humans is going to become an ongoing theme in movies and television (or a little of both).

For those of ...

There were conflicting opinions about this year’s gal pal hit Bridesmaids and while I didn’t think it was perfect, I thought it was pretty damn clever and groundbreaking. Well, apparently, the American public agrees as Bridesmaids ...