Hepcat, not to hijack the thread, but you don’t happen to moderate on another message board do you? Your username is both unique & very familiar at once.
Anyways, while I have your attention, what exactly is a “Hepcat?”
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As for the subject at hand, I think that women can be all those unsavoury things we accuse them of & thensome, but us guys can be all that & worse too. I find that water seeks its own level in the end, & we pretty much get what we deserve/want/are, knowingly or otherwise.
Actually, Thelma and Louise is actually about two women who take off because one of them has a completely jerky husband and the other is single. The go to a bar and a guy they meet there tries to rape one of the women, so the other woman shoots him. Then they’re on the lamb, running from the cops and run into Brad Pitt, young little hottie that sleeps with one of the women, and steals all of their money before she wakes up the next morning. All in all, exactly the type of movie that portrays men as complete jerks. Glad you mentioned it though, what a perfect example of the kind of movie that gives feminism a bad name.
IEatFood,
No, I don’t moderate on another board. Hepcat is a word that was used around the 1940’s that refered to a hip person. I’m certianly not hip, I just like the way it sounds. It’s also a band of some sort. Punk or something similar if I remember correctly.
IIRC, Louise (Susan Sarandon) has a very nice boyfriend who helps them out, even though she won’t tell him what is going on and soon takes off on the run again with Thelma. So the movie does have an example of a woman being fairly jerky to her boyfriend, although it’s not a major theme of the film or anything.
Sorry plain_jane, just the funky way my brain works. I didn’t explain myself well.
When Thelma and Louise was first released, it seemed like every where you turned, people in the media were using it as an example of how “crazy” strong women are, and that all strong women are “man haters”. I kept thinking “It’s a MOVIE! Come ON!” Most feminists, and most women, don’t hate men IMHO. We love men. We hate being discriminated against or treated as though we’re less capable than men. There is a big difference.
Lamia, good point! It’s been a while since I saw the movie.
It’s also a band of some sort. Punk or something similar if I remember correctly.