Make up Blog for Week 6

This week i watched the movie "Role Models." The movie was about two men that work for a energy drink company. Danny (Paul Rudd) has a bad day at work one day and parks in a no parking zone. When Danny sees that his car is being toed, him and his partner Wheeler (Sean William Penn) jump in the car and try to drive off. They do not make it far and they are sentenced to either 30 days in jail or community service with a role model charity group.

There were a few parts that stuck out to me as being sexist. The part that stuck out the most to me was when Danny and Wheeler take their assigned "little's" to a camping trip. Wheeler is a bit of a ladies man and earlier in the movie he had attempted to convince a female role model to have sex with him. The women showed him her wedding ring and declined. On the camping trip though the woman, Connie (Carly Craig), takes Wheeler aside and tells him that she had only agreed to stay loyal to her husband within the state boundaries. Since the camping trip was out of state, she could have sex with Wheeler. This portrays women as horny, cheating tramps. This is unfair to women who stay faithful for their entire marriage and take it seriously. There are a lot of women who do not cheat on their husbands and most would never even think about it. It is sad that directors portray women this way because they think it is funny and will get them more viewers.

Overall this movie was pretty funny and i would recommend it. There are a few sexist parts, but for the most part the movie concentrates on showing Danny and Wheeler struggle through being role models.

I love you, man

Recently i saw the movie I Love You, Man. This movie shows that people think men should be dirty, rude, and drunks. The main character, Peter (Paul Rudd), is a sensitive man who has never really had any close male friends. Peter is more feminine than masculine. Because of this his wife, Zooey (Rashida Jones), encourages him to go at and make some male friends to become more masculine. When Peter meets Sydney (Jason Segel), they become close friends as Sydney teaches Peter everything that normal men do. Sydney teaches Peter that men go rock climbing, go out to bars to drink and talk about sex, masturbate regularly, and have one night stands. While its hard to argue most of these things, not all of it is true. There are plenty of men that do not drink excessively or participate in sports. Some men like to keep their personal sex life to themselves whether that may be talking about having sex with women or masturbating.

The character that is really over the top is Barry, the husband of one of Zooeys friends. Barry is forced to invite Peter over to play poker with him and his friends. Barry is a drunk ass who thinks that he is the king of the house. Barry is very competetive and is not very understanding of Peter. Barry and his friends use vulgar langauge often and burp and fart in each others presence. They challange each other to drinking games and take them seriously. This gives of the idea that men are stupid, rude and evil. There are plenty of men who are very conservative and would never do something like burp or fart in public. There are also many households where women make most of the decisions regarding the house.