Kierstin Goodman

Sweet Home Alabama Melanie (as child): “What do you want to be married to me for, anyhow?” Jake (as child): “So I can kiss you anytime I like?” In this romantic comedy, Melanie, the big label fashion designer, has left her past behind in Alabama. As she is proposed to, she remembers one pesky detail, she’s still married. So when she runs back home to quickly solve the problem, she realizes it might not be that easy to forget her first love, Jake. Reese Witherspoon and Josh Lucas make this movie a dream come true for any single woman. Not only are you already married, but then you are proposed to. And after all the hell you’ve put both guys through, they both come out in love with you. Both choose happiness for you. Down here on planet Earth, both guys would declare you insane, as well as your friends and family. Then after an all out brawl, vying for your love, those two men would become best of friends and leave you sitting on your ass, unloved and lonely. Let’s face it, no guy really cares as much as a woman wants him to, and no way do two guys care that much. P.S. I Love You Your husband just died and you’ve been grieving for so long your family becomes concerned. On your 30th birthday you receive a cake and a tape recording from your husband, now dead. He is saying that he is going to be sending you letters, and the first one is coming soon. So your husband just died, and he set up this whole plan so you still have contact with him for the next several months, it seems to be exactly what any grieving wife needs. Hilary Swank plays the grieving widow, Holly, of Gerard Butler’s character, Gerry. His crazy love for her makes it harder to move forward with the grieving process. Frankly, I’m confused at what woman doesn’t want to get letters from her husband, now dead, and rush around town trying to do whatever he told you to do. This love story is a little twisted, and extremely unrealistic. While Holly is on this wild goose chase trying to keep in contact with her dead husband, a man falls for her, but she is too selfish to get past grieving or being obsessed with his letters to even see that he wants her. She is so selfish, because Gerry wants her to always remember him, that she can’t even be happy with her friend’s lives moving forward. This is the perfect example of why love stories give women false realities of love. No man who is dying will go through the process of writing his wife letters and sending her on vacation, no matter how much is loves her. Gerry does not exist in real life, and women need to stop getting their hopes up from this movie, men are just too selfish to think about their grieving wife after they are dead. The Little Mermaid Disney takes the Danish tale of a mermaid who dies in the end because she fell in love with a human man who does not choose to love her, and turns it into and inspiring tale, teaching kids to reach for their dreams, and love knows no boundaries, ocean or land. In the Disney version, the Little Mermaid, Ariel, falls in love with Prince Eric after seeing him on land, then saving him from drowning after his ship sets on fire. Prince Eric remembers her voice and is instantly entranced by it, even though he is supposed to be looking for a princess to fall in love with and marry. As the drama unfolds, Prince Eric is about to marry the wrong girl, aka the Sea Monster, Ursula. He ends up fighting her in her Sea Monster form, vying for his love and for Ariel’s voice. Every Disney movie teaches that love is “Happily Ever After.” What Disney didn’t teach, is that men don’t search through the forest, fight angry witches/dragons/sea monsters to capture the girl of his dreams to achieve happily ever after. Not only are there obvious reasons this love story won’t work out in the end for us average girls (there are neither princes nor evil things to fight physically) but men just do not fight like Prince Eric fought Ursula for the love of their life. Love can be like a fairytale, but more often than not, men are average and do not believe in fighting for a woman.