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Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
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The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
Well, this is interesting. I expect in the final analysis, you’ll find it says a lot more about the research than about men.
Contrary to popular opinion, men too enjoy chick flicks i.e. movies that are of human interest. However, they are more likely to watch an emotional melodrama for entertainment if they were specifically told that these programmes are fictionalised, says a study.
The new study examined the emotional melodrama that shows the protagonists overcoming their challenges through sacrifice and bravery.
They found that women tend to prefer stories that seem to be true but men enjoyed stories more when they were explicitly told that the stories were imaginary.
I think it’s probably all in the definition. Devil’s in the details.
You can tell me ’til you’re blue in the face that this one is made-up…there’s no way I wanna see that steaming pile ever again.
And that goes for this too.
And speaking of Hugh Grant, I’ll watch this again, but only for that scene where he discovers his car has been booted.
I think if the research was conducted with a decent respect for reason, truth and fact, you’d eventually find men despise lecturing cloaked as entertainment and the ladies aren’t terribly fond of it either. And I think I speak for a lot of men when I say I don’t like to watch movies calculated to start fights in my household. That…and if for some reason there is a pressing urgency in handing down a decree one way or t’other, about whether men should start blubbering like little spoiled brats, the other guys and myself will take charge of that perplexing decision thankyewverymuch, while Hollyweird takes a vacation, or finds some other way to tell everybody what to be and how to act and how to live.
One other thing — I’ll bet I can find at least three or four ladies who like action films, for every guy who likes chick flicks. How about a study into that?
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I’m one of those guys who doesn’t mind a good flick that leans “chick”. I’m a big fan of chicks, and always have been 😉 Actually it’s a nice fluffy romantic comedy I can enjoy with the chicks … and there’s usually plenty of eye candy in them for me to make up for the ladies’ kleenex scenes. But there is a line I balk at and it’s right around the Steel Magnolias point. That’s about the point where I’ll see if my buddy has time to go out in the woods and start fires without matches and shoot things with guns. Or maybe go see how the lawn is doing. Or clean the garage. (Clean the garage???? Wait… Dolly Parton does have nice calves. Hmmmm…. well she does!)
Flicks that involve chicks navel gazing about what it means to be a chick (in which men are usually quite peripheral or nonexistent) or about how much better (sensitive, strong, smart, morally upright….) chicks are than men, or what stupid oafs and pigs men are… I, of course, avoid.
My wife probably likes action films more than I do — which is not to say I don’t like them. She’s just a movie hound. Movies are to her what music is to me. But then again she’ll go out and camp in freezing temperatures and hike to the tops of mountains with me.
- philmon | 01/09/2008 @ 23:31I wonder if I didn’t get snookered on this one.
This alternative source contains a few nuggets of additional information, and then it also has some entire sections worded exactly the same way, as if what I cited originally was just a replication of this one. Nowhere does it actually define an academic institution actually performing the study itself. “Source” is Univ. of Chicago; there’s an additional researcher, Jennifer Argo of Univ. of Alberta; both the original researchers are from Univ. of BC.
Anyway, I think you’re speaking for a lot more guy than you know. You don’t like to watch movies that show off what stupid oafs men are, but you’re a big fan of chicks? Hmm, gee. 😉
Having said that, if this is true then I think the research does a wonderful job of showing the harm that is done to scientific integrity when researchers start with an agenda. Because, to me, men don’t like chick flicks for the reasons you don’t like them — it’s unnatural to like something that is just a lot of lecturing about how worthless you are, as a member of a designated class.
Researchers have found something that mitigates this dislike when they clearly intended to find that out as a primary mission. That’s like saying kids like broccoli better when the carpeting is a beige color, or magnifying glasses don’t burn ants quite as well on Wednesdays…the researchers are reporting there was an anomaly in the data they used (a cloudy Wednesday) and they failed to make an adequate minimal sampling so that this would be normalized into the random aberration that it is. Meanwhile, there is this other factor in play that they worked like the dickens to ignore…and they succeeded in that effort as well.
- mkfreeberg | 01/10/2008 @ 07:57Well since I don’t think men are stupid oafs, of course, “show off” would be a bad choice of words. “portray” would be better. 🙂 And oh yeah. Big fan. Since Kindergarden, at least.
As far as the research goes, it sounds like an example of Things I Know #16 ….
- philmon | 01/10/2008 @ 10:41