# What are the womanest(?) moments in movie history? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 1, 2012, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-womanest-moments-in-movie-history/614415 "2012-03-01T02:01:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![shijinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-womanest-moments-in-movie-history/614415/1 "2012-03-01T02:01:44Z")
why is there no direct, and thus positive, counterpart to “manly” for women? so in the other [thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=643526), a popular view of the idea of manly is when they are fighting. so what do you think are the most feminine moments in movie history? will it be more Michelle Yeoh or Michelle Dockery? ---
**Author:** ![Covered\_In\_Bees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-womanest-moments-in-movie-history/614415/2 "2012-03-01T02:03:44Z")
Womanly I think is the word you’re looking for. ---
**Author:** ![shijinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-womanest-moments-in-movie-history/614415/3 "2012-03-01T02:11:19Z")
:smack: ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-womanest-moments-in-movie-history/614415/4 "2012-03-01T02:18:14Z")
Any film featuring the wife cooking bacon & eggs for her husband, followed by an obligatory hand job later that night, will suffice in my book. 😃 OTOH, if you’re talking about “I Am Woman, Hear Me Roar” moments, I’ll nominate _Thelma & Louise._ ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-womanest-moments-in-movie-history/614415/5 "2012-03-01T02:19:46Z")
Moments when men don’t man up and fight like they’re supposed to. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-womanest-moments-in-movie-history/614415/6 "2012-03-01T02:23:46Z")
Ennis fastens the top button of Jack’s shirt, and with tears in his eyes mutters, “Jack, I swear…” while straightening the postcard of Brokeback Mountain, before closing the door and walking away. With thanks to **[Monkey Chews](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=14818358&postcount=35)** ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-womanest-moments-in-movie-history/614415/7 "2012-03-01T02:28:24Z")
Ripley in **Aliens.** ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-womanest-moments-in-movie-history/614415/8 "2012-03-01T02:46:25Z")
Rita Hayworth flipping her hair in _Gilda,_ Jennifer Jones scrubbing the floor in _Duel in the Sun,_ Vivian Leigh vowing she’ll never go hungry again in _Gone With the Wind,_ Glenn Close switching the lamp on and off in _Fatal Attraction,_ Mama Corleone whose name I forget telling Michael he can never lose his family in _Godfather II._ Sophia Loren pretty much any time she’s in the frame. ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-womanest-moments-in-movie-history/614415/9 "2012-03-01T02:51:14Z")
Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct ---
**Author:** ![wedgehed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8edcca/32.png) [@wedgehed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wedgehed)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-womanest-moments-in-movie-history/614415/10 "2012-03-01T03:08:15Z")
Maureen O’Hara in _The Quiet Man_. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-womanest-moments-in-movie-history/614415/11 "2012-03-01T03:19:22Z")
Éowyn versus the Witch King. “_I_ am no man!” ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-womanest-moments-in-movie-history/614415/12 "2012-03-01T03:25:02Z")
[“I’d like to kiss you…”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndSEWPQlYjU) ---
**Author:** ![FordTaurusSHO94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f07891/32.png) [@FordTaurusSHO94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordTaurusSHO94)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-womanest-moments-in-movie-history/614415/13 "2012-03-01T03:27:56Z")
I just watched The Black Swan and for some reason Mila is all I can think about… ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-womanest-moments-in-movie-history/614415/14 "2012-03-01T05:00:14Z")
We shouldn’t have to tell you what the most womanly moment was. You should know. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-womanest-moments-in-movie-history/614415/15 "2012-03-01T08:54:11Z")
The 1939 movie “The Women,” in which everyone in the movie (including the animals) was female. ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-womanest-moments-in-movie-history/614415/16 "2012-03-01T09:02:40Z")
_The Color Purple_ has a few - when Shug sings all the way to church, hugs her estranged father and says “See Daddy? Sinners have soul too.” Or when Celie finally tells off Mister. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 9:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-womanest-moments-in-movie-history/614415/17 "2012-03-01T09:15:11Z")
Pretty much the entire movie of Sense and Sensibility. ---
**Author:** ![shijinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-womanest-moments-in-movie-history/614415/18 "2012-03-01T10:54:15Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > We shouldn’t have to tell you what the most womanly moment was. You should know. you sleep on the couch tonight. /whacks **Bryan Ekers** on the head with a pillow. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-womanest-moments-in-movie-history/614415/19 "2012-03-01T13:22:52Z")
Greer Garson in _Mrs. Miniver_: A crazed German pilot crash-lands in her garden and holds her at gunpoint. She calms him down, gives him something to eat, gets the gun away from him, calls the cops, and goes to the flower show. ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-womanest-moments-in-movie-history/614415/20 "2012-03-01T13:50:25Z")
Abigail Adams sending the barrels of saltpeter to her husband, John, giving him the courage to keep fighting in _1776_. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-womanest-moments-in-movie-history/614415.md?page=2)