Sick

Well I am pretty sick, I was at school yesterday and had to get sent home because I thought I was going to be sick. Today I woke up and felt like the walking dead. It is strange how you can be sick without any warning, this morning I felt terrible and now I am feeling okay. I don't think I am sick enough to need to see a doctor, more exhausted then anything. I haven't had that much sleep though, my house is so noisy all the walls are just too thin I wish they were thick and that I didn't live where so many cars drove past everyday. So while I have been s
ick, I decided I would watch a movie. The problem with watching a movie though, is the fact that I have seen all the DVD's we own at least three times each and the ones I have only seen once aren't even worth watching again. I ended up putting on In Her Shoes, it is a good movie and I love Jennifer Weiner books, even though I haven't read In Her Shoes it would have to be a good movie.

So while I was sitting there watching a chick-flick, I happened to remember something that my friends mums partner said to me while we spent a few days at the beach. I was watching the remake of Pearl Harbour, with Ben Affleck and Josh Hartnett. I was sitting there enjoying the movie even though I had started watching it halfway through (I had seen it before) which hadn't bothered me. I wasn't paying much attention to anyone else, and my friends mums partner decided to talk to me. He is pretty stupid, he points out the obvious as if none of us know what is going on. So anyway, I am sitting there watching Pearl Harbour, which is a love story, and he sits down next to me and says in the stupidest 'occa' accent ever, " I didn't think you would like this movie. It is a guy type movie, it isn't something girls would be interested in." Honestly I don't hate men, I don't trust them, but I don't hate them. But when men say things to me like this I automatically get mad, I can't help it. Why can't a girl like an action movie? Is there this rule that says 'girls-cannot-like-action-movies?'
So I turned around, and because I am nice I said, " Really?... I love this movie, it happens to be one of my favourites! I guess it has something to do with the whole love story, gotta love Ben Affleck and Josh Hartnett." and I turned around and watched the movie. He didn't say anything to me after that. I guess it was strange to add in the spunky actor thing, but I thought it made me sound super girlie, which was fine by me at the time.

I wouldn't say that I am a feminist, but I can't stand the double standards. Because I am a girl I will get freaked out in a scary movie? Because I am a girl I will hate action movies? Because I am a girl I will love all chick-flicks, even the ridiculous ones that are so embarrassing?
It is funny how all of these things are just thought by the majority of the oppisite sex.
The only scary movie I actually got scared in was The Strangers, and that was because some dick at the cinemas decided to walk around in a mask and come out of no-where and scare the whole cinema, including the men!
I enjoy action movies, in-fact, while watching them I usually give directions to the characters without knowing what I am doing, and I usually guess what is going to happen halfway through the movie.
Chick-Flicks are great, but that genre of movie is not the only type I like to watch. I think some chick-flicks are getting sappier and sappier and most of them portray women to be pathetic. Women who sit and watch their home phones all day for 'that guy to call' or who forgive their cheating Ex boyfriends. I also find chick-flicks to be very predictable, girl meets boy, girl falls for boy, girl wants boy to feel the same way, boy finally notices girl, girl and boy fall in love, happily ever after. Sure some happen to be good, but most follow that same story line which makes me want to go to sleep (maybe I should put one on). zzzz...

So how about, rather than making generalisations towards sexes, you get to know someone before assuming the only movies guys like are action and the only movies girls like are chick-flicks. Because I know a lot of guys that have watched the 'Notebook' and loved it. I also know many girls who can sit and watch 'Law Abiding Citizen' and absolutely love it. So for any stupid girl, or guy out there, think before you make a stupid comment about the opposite sex, because they just might surprise you.