Carl's Dating Blog

July 1, 2007
Movies Give the Wrong Message

Hollywood, in its quest for happy endings, constantly feeds people the absolute wrong messages with their movies. I’ve touched in this briefly in earlier blogs, but let me reinforce that with a few facts that directly contradict most movies:

People do not fall in love with other people whom they hate at first sight. They just wind up hating them even more.
Mean guys, jerks, and criminals do not become nice, upstanding citizens because of a woman’s love. They instead drag the woman down with them.
Criminals are scum, the lowest form of life on earth and are not charming, fun and exciting dates that should be idolized. They take things they didn’t earn.
Children never, ever are able to get their parents matched up.
Dangerous men do not make good husbands. I can just hear Mrs. Indiana Jones now, “running off to find the Holy Grail was fine when you were young, but when are you going to stop fooling around with those old pots and start helping me with the kids?”
Nice guys are not always boring and dating one is not “settling.”
Being kidnapped by terrorists does not change your feelings about a man, even if he does rescue you by flying a Harrier jet up the terrorists’ ass.
Men are not jerks because they haven’t found the right woman. They’re jerks because they’re jerks.

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