The Invisible Counterpoint

photo from http://growthstylenlove.wordpress.com/2008/10/ Seth Rogan: "Kids like me but when they meet me they're horrified by me... These guys bring their kids (to screenings) and I kind of resent them. To me it's kind of a sacrilegious thing and the kid would cry. It was horrible..." "Now that the movie's out and I don't have to promote it anymore, I can say that I hate children. It's out; it's made $60 million. I can say it: I hate kids. If no kid ever came up to me, I would be more than happy." (World Entertainment News Network) Re: “What we’re discussing here, however, is a lot of men on cusp of middle age who, at some sub-rational and visceral level, see their masculine identity threatened by the act of fathering a child. They understand babies to be enemies of what makes it great to be a straight man. Thus, having one is ‘gay.’” (Vanessa Richmond, “‘Having Kids is so gay’,” The Tyee, April 26, 2009) Quite the disparaging p...

De Line Pictures The movie largely presents drunk women as grotesque and offensive, and pedestals ideal sex as that between couples who give a damn about one another (and where everything is comparatively low-key and tame). The sex with Brandi is presented as him still living the schmoe's life - -a life without any dignity: it is no score, but a collective embarrassment. All this said, the movie is to some extent moved out of a hatred of the rejecting woman. But the revenge is nowhere in the sex, but rather in how the film terminates -- with her being targeted for special attention by the mall flasher. This is displaced, angry rape, and our sense of her at the end of the film is indeed of her having been despoiled (“Talladega Nights” was actually born out of a kinder impulse to women). Film tells a familiar message as far as understanding men's needs: they need to be listened to and loved. It's what they deserve, and, as a plus, it's also the way to tame the ...