EP50 - That's Not Romantic - It's Creepy!

February 14, 2019 / Morgan Jaffe

For decades, romantic comedies have given audiences an incorrect idea of how romantic relationships should work. How you should ask someone out, woo them, and win them. But because of how romcoms depict love on screen, they show harmful behaviors like persistence, possessiveness, and stalking as grand gestures of love - all while normalizing them.

Art by Jeremy Ferris.

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categories / film, sexism, sexual objectification
tags / romcoms, romantic comedies, Hitch, Moonstruck, Love Jones, The Notebook, Boomerang, Crazy Stupid Love, Groundhog Day, About Time, 50 First Dates, 10 Things I Hate About You, 500 Days of Summer, Can't Hardly Wait, Sweet Home Alabama, Love Actually, There's Something About Mary, You've Got Mail, Sleepless in Seattle, While You Were Sleeping, My Best Friend's Wedding, Fatal Attraction, Swimfan, The Crush, stalking, Halloween