• ch00f@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    What does Bella do in the story? Dad buys her a truck, dude saves her from a car accident, stalks her, plays baseball in front of her, then the family chips in to save her from The Tracker or whatever. She just kind of hangs out. She doesn’t even decide to move to Forks in the first place.

    Also, please look up the term “Male Gaze”. It’s a real term. I didn’t invent it. And it doesn’t simply mean “stuff that men like to see.”

    https://www.studiobinder.com/blog/what-is-the-male-gaze-definition/

    In the context of cinema, it’s mostly men who write the films we watch, mostly men who make those films, and it is men who are usually the target audience.

    Therefore, men are usually given the lead in the stories themselves while female characters are assigned functions that are limited to serving the goals of those male protagonists

    “Reforming a bad boy” is literally a woman serving a man. Especially if the “goal” of the man is to get with the woman.

    Show me a romcom where the man serves the desires of the woman and doesn’t get to fuck her at the end.