Bridget Jones - spits in the face of feminism?

Question

What do you think ladies and gentlemen?

Answer 1

I've never wasted my time reading or seeing _Bridget Jones_ because it's obviously the same old cutesy trash the media likes to feed to women, but I commend your question because I've no doubt you're right. The respondents here who explain that "you can't analyze a movie so deeply" fail to grasp that simply being exposed to and unquestioningly taking in the garbage (even while outwardly objecting to its "reality") instills and perpetuates subconscious stereotypes and values (such as that the woman without a husband is forever incomplete, but the man without a wife rarely is). It's one thing to "enjoy" a movie; it's another to be stupefied into not even recognizing its underlying assumptions.

Anyway, you might be interested to read Susan Faludi's classic _Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women._ It gives intelligent and well-researched accounts of masculinity's increasing discomfort over "sharing the power" with women in many facets of society over the past two decades.

P.S. Unfortunately, name-calling ("Feminazi"? Give me a break.) loses its effectiveness around the fifth grade.

Answer 2

Bit extreme don't ya think? Do you really wish to encapsulate everything into some ideological dogma? A bit like the Marxists labeling something "progressive" or that it follows the party line.
Why not let something just stand on its artistic merits?
It is in my opinion a comedy about a young woman trying to find her soul mate. I think it is a fun movie. I am a male and I can easily empathize with "Bridget Jones" as I think many single men and women can. I do not find her choice in men or her attempts to "catch" one in any way stokes my male ego or belittles women.
But that is just my humble opinion.

Answer 3

I think that feminists look for feminist issues in everything they do - whether it be reading a book, watching a film or listening to a CD. Bridget Jones is just a film. It has no feminist agenda. It is just entertainment. Enjoy it for what it is.

Answer 4

Feminism itself put a lot of social pressure on women to be this that or the other, mother, professional, wife, mistress, fat, thin etc. I think this book explores these issues to a great extent. Most of her anxiety is born out of feeling inadequate whilst comparing herself to other women.

Answer 5

feminism is so twentieth century and going down the drain, as it should be. it is a militant point of view that puts down what women desire and forces an agenda of fatherless children and "reproductive rights" aka baby killing down our throats. that being said, i enjoyed bridget jones and did not feel threatened one bit! which is how a femi-nazi would feel.

Answer 6

Nope not at all ... shes a character in a book , she probably has traits of all women in there somewhere ... and i have to say i live by the big pants rule !!

Answer 7

For some time I have noticed signs that Bridget Jones has Ed Zacarys disease ........ I remember a rather difficult situation an old friend of mine's sister once had, poor girl. Apparently she had not even been on a date for around nine years let alone had sex or got laid, so she was talking to one of her girlfriends who told her of a promblem she had with her husband three years before. Apparently they had not been sleeping together as they once did so in some desperation the two of them had gone to a Chinese herbalist doctor, they had eight sessions with him and to this day they had never been to happy together. So, after asking her friend if she would go to any lengths to find change she offered her friend the telephone number. Three days later my friend's sister made the call and made an appointment to see the doctor, very nervous she atteneded at the time offered. She went in and was offered a chair and he began taking her history and asking what her concerns were and why she had come to see him, after telling the doctor of her worries and complaint he asked her if she would go to any lengths in order to find change to which she said she was desperate for change. He then asked her to disrobe to take everything off and to get on her hands and knees and to then crawl across the room, mortified she complied with his directions, once having crossed the room with him making tutting noises she looked over her shoulder to which he motioned her to make the return journey, crawling all the way back to him, all the way seeing him shake his head and continuing his tutting. She then asked him what was wrong, why was he shaking his head and tutting, to which he said that what she had was a serious case ..... one of the worse cases he had seen, she was in semi shock and asked him what he meant and was there any way to remedy what he thought she had. She then asked what it was he thought she had to which he said Ed Zacary's disease, one of the worst cases of Ed Zacary's disease he had ever seen, blown away she said what is Ed Zacary's disease, I've never ever even heard of it, so he explained, it is when your butt looks Ed Zacary like your face.

Answer 8

Feminism is fine for any open minded.

Answer 9

Don't be ridiculous. You are pandering to an image of a feminist fed to you in such a negative way so that it becomes unattractive to women.

Answer 10

It's just a film, designed to make people (well, women, as it is a chick flick) laugh and to entertain them. That's all.