Zeb_Carter
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Over my long life I have seen many movies and also have heard or read about many more and as a result I feel that there are many more movies about men than about women. That is there are many more movies where the main character, the one that we learn the most about, the one whose emotions we are most likely to see and the one that gets things done are men.
Choe Tzang, thank you for your comment, but I’m not sure if you meant that your “Chinese Takeout” series are about women.
If you delete the last part and instead write "who desire to dominate and control women" and and add "in the same manner they perceive that the alpha male is" and I think you have nailed it. As an example it explains so many facets of male behaviour such as domestic violence or verbal abuse designed to shatter her confidence.Nicole I’ve been thinking about your interesting last comment. My idea, which may be incorrect, is that what we see in movies comes from the long history of men dominating and controlling women.
The desire for men to control women may be enhanced by male insincerities as you explained so the nature of movies today may be indirectly a result of those insincerities.
Yes! Anyone who prefers movies about women rather than those about "real" men should be complimented.Further, as I thought about your comment I realized it was a compliment to me
Jehoram, thank you for the link. I looked at it and from the titles there seems to be stories I would like. I already read one of the stories “Endymion” and I enjoyed it. It is very much the type of story I like.
PS, I have written that there are many more movies about men than about women and I gave some evidence for my feeling. No one disagreed with that claim. Do people feel I am correct in that or not?
For the most part the women are heterosexual, but there would be one or two lesbians or partly straight women.
To illustrate the type of story that could be written about a group of women I have come up with the following scenario:
I was reading something the other day about a test that you can make to determine how male-centric a movie is (I wish I could remember the name of the test). It says that it's truly non-male-centric if two women are having a dialog, and the subject of the dialog does not concern a male, then it passes the test.
The only movie I've seen recently that fits that description is "Don't Think Twice" where two women are discussing their career paths.