And that’s the problem: A generation of romantic comedies rewarding men for diligently pursuing a woman until she caves has normalized a behavior that has direct and unwelcome corollaries in real life. In an era when we’re having open conversations about representation and sensitivity in comedy, the shtick of a guy who won’t take no for an answer has lost any charm it once held. It’s become either a romantic signpost to set up a long-term romantic dynamic (which it shouldn’t), or it’s shorthand to denote a clueless creep while rarely taking him to task for it.
The Full Boyle: Guys who don’t hear “no” just aren’t funny anymore - Genevieve Valentine (via ofunicorndust)
Listen up Once writers.
(via swanqueengranger)
^ THIS
No more stories about guys constantly pursuing girls who clearly are not interested until the girls suddenly magically realise that all the problems in there life can magically be solved by a dude
No more of this nonsense, writers…
