# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-womanest-moments-in-movie-history/614415/21 "2012-03-01T13:57:21Z")
They would all be in porn. ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-womanest-moments-in-movie-history/614415/22 "2012-03-01T13:58:05Z")
The post-funeral scene in _Steel Magnolias_ was what instantly popped into my mind upon reading the thread title. > [@](#): > > I find it amusing. Men are supposed to be made out of steel or something. I just sat there. I just held Shelby’s hand. There was no noise, no tremble, just peace. Oh god. I realize as a woman how lucky I am. I was there when that wonderful creature drifted into my life and I was there when she drifted out. It was the most precious moment of my life. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-womanest-moments-in-movie-history/614415/23 "2012-03-01T14:04:13Z")
Bette Davis in **Dark Victory** - the ending where she is going blind, which is the tell-tale sign that she’s about to succumb to her brain tumor (Prognosis: NEGATIVE!) While her husband is still at the house, she pretends she’s fine and that there’s nothing wrong with her sight because she doesn’t want to worry him before he leaves to give a big speech at a conference. Because, y’know, she doesn’t want to meddle in her husband’s career with something so silly & inconsequential as…HER LIFE COMING TO AN END! Talk about a noble, strong, self-sacrificing woman giving up everything for her man. Just like a woman in a 1930s soap opera would do! ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-womanest-moments-in-movie-history/614415/24 "2012-03-01T14:10:09Z")
This thread is very discouraging… ---
**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, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-womanest-moments-in-movie-history/614415/25 "2012-03-01T14:41:47Z")
Discouraging? Ingrid Bergman in _Gaslight_: If I were not mad, I could have helped you. Whatever you had done, I could have pitied and protected you. But because I am mad, I hate you. Because I am mad, I have betrayed you. And because I’m mad, I’m rejoicing in my heart, without a shred of pity, without a shred of regret, watching you go with glory in my heart! ---
**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, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-womanest-moments-in-movie-history/614415/26 "2012-03-01T14:57:00Z")
“You had me at hello.” ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-womanest-moments-in-movie-history/614415/27 "2012-03-01T15:01:14Z")
River Tam near the end of _Serenity_. “You take care of me, Simon. You’ve always taken care of me. My turn.” She then dives through the door and teaches the Reivers who Shiva is. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-womanest-moments-in-movie-history/614415/28 "2012-03-01T15:07:24Z")
“Suck. My. Dick!” - Demi Moore, _G.I. Jane_ ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-womanest-moments-in-movie-history/614415/29 "2012-03-01T15:09:58Z")
Yeah, I don’t really like either measure. Men fight, women seduce? Blegh. ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-womanest-moments-in-movie-history/614415/30 "2012-03-01T15:10:28Z")
[Clip.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOILKHmZBwc) ---
**Author:** ![Stauderhorse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@Stauderhorse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stauderhorse)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-womanest-moments-in-movie-history/614415/31 "2012-03-01T15:18:12Z")
Are we talking the traditional definition of femininity, with women being coy and passive? If so, probably the ball (especially the dance between her and the prince) in Disney’s Cinderella. If it’s the no-holds-barred, ass-kicking woman of today kind of womanly, any of Ripley’s scenes in Aliens. If it’s the materialistic, chatty, judgmental bitch archetype, pretty much every moment in both Sex and the City movies. There’s so many definitions of “womanly” it’s hard to keep track. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-womanest-moments-in-movie-history/614415/32 "2012-03-01T15:31:16Z")
Dawn Wiener (Heather Materazzo) in **Welcome to the Dollhouse** trying to find out if the slutty girl laying on that Mustang convertible actually had sex with the man of her (Dawn’s) dreams. **The Flintstones** (John Goodman/Rosie O’Donnell version): Betty Rubble asking Barney “Do you REALLY have to do everything Fred does?” The Raquel Welch/Faye Dunaway throwdown in Richard Lester’s **The Three Musketeers**. Penny Lane tricking that douchebag rock star into visiting William Miller at home in **Almost Famous**. Also, Frances McDormand scaring the shit out of him over the phone, same movie. ---
**Author:** ![phungi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/phungi/32/395_2.png) [@phungi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phungi)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-womanest-moments-in-movie-history/614415/33 "2012-03-01T15:50:03Z")
Jamie Lee Curtis climbing into bed with a sick Winthorp in _Trading Places_ ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-womanest-moments-in-movie-history/614415/34 "2012-03-01T16:06:56Z")
Karen Blixen arriving with supplies to save the lives of her husband and his troops in “Out of Africa.” It’s so amazing and an almost complete portrait of the modern gender conflict. She is feeling proud and adventurous and strong. He is feeling embarassed to be saved by a woman. Despite the fact that if she hadn’t come and made it through they would all have starved to death, they are chagrined to be saved by a girl. You see her deflate as the realization hits her, and a contempt resolve itself in her view of him. She never held it against him for being weak enough to get into this jam; but she can not forgive him for being small enough to be embarassed. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-womanest-moments-in-movie-history/614415/35 "2012-03-01T16:20:26Z")
Ilsa in Casablanca: “I can’t fight it anymore. I ran away from you once. I can’t do it again. Oh, I don’t know what’s right any longer. You’ll have to think for both of us, for all of us.” ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-womanest-moments-in-movie-history/614415/36 "2012-03-01T17:56:42Z")
Grace Kelly’s entrance in _Rear Window_. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-womanest-moments-in-movie-history/614415/37 "2012-03-01T18:20:21Z")
In _Princess Mononoke_, the scene where San is feeding Ashitaka jerky. It’s very maternal, and yet very sensual, also. ---
**Author:** ![you\_with\_the\_face](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ecccb3/32.png) [@you\_with\_the\_face](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/you_with_the_face)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-womanest-moments-in-movie-history/614415/38 "2012-03-01T18:50:23Z")
> [@Poysyn](#): > > _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. Or when Sophia hits Harpo. ---
**Author:** ![Soylent\_Juicy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@Soylent\_Juicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Juicy)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-womanest-moments-in-movie-history/614415/39 "2012-03-01T18:58:04Z")
When G.I. Jane is doing those one-armed pushups on the chairs. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-womanest-moments-in-movie-history/614415/40 "2012-03-01T19:05:53Z")
> [@Morbo](#): > > Moments when men don’t man up and fight like they’re supposed to. For bonus points, there’s always Talia Shire in ROCKY II: she wakes up in a hospital bed after giving birth, and there’s her regretful but overjoyed husband finally acceding to her pre-coma wishes by agreeing not to fight the champ. _“There’s one thing I want you to do for me,”_ she says, and giggles a bit. He leans in close. _“Win.”_ He stares at her in disbelief. _“Win,”_ she repeats, intensely. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-womanest-moments-in-movie-history/614415.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-womanest-moments-in-movie-history/614415.md?page=3)