A "Chick Flick" And A "Prick Flick" For The Weekend!
In 2017, Gloria Steinem wrote an OpEd for The New York Times in which she discussed how the term, "Chick Flick," invented by men, was meant as a pejorative, or intended to denote any movie with a female lead, a plot that gave you the feels, and "more dialogue than car chases." Helpfully, she offered up her own term for its opposite, "The Prick Flick," or any movie with lots of menz in the forefront, oodles of action, or "prestige" subject matter from the High Church of Hollywood, and few, in any, female characters (besides girlfriend, hand-wringing housewife, or bangable side piece). But something funny happened on the way to the post-Covid cinema. Everyone and their kitten, it seems, wants to see both The Chick Flick, or "Barbie," and The Prick Flick, or "Oppenheimer." There's even folks who plan to see both as a double feature on the same day. Are we evolving? Hahahaha! Not so fast, tiger. Some politicians have tr...