That's actually the thing I love about Johnny Depp - his choice of roles. I remember absolutely loving Secret Window, as does my sister who's a huge JD fangirl. I agree it's a good movie (one of his underrated ones I think).
The thing is with generalities, is that they are true - with *some* of the population. I know people exactly like she is describing and I try to have as little to do with them as humanly possible.
But you can't generalise, and you can't boil these behaviours down to gender alone. There's a lot more nurture involved than nature, and culture is an incredibly powerful thing in human beings.
And really - she's saying that the people who determine if you're beautiful or not are men. And that's wrong. Because I'm sure there are a lot of people in your life that think you're beautiful. All of us are.
Oh, I'm glad I've never, ever been an opinion column writer, because some of the dumb-shit things I've said in the past would be so horrifying now. Though, a lot still remains in my journal. *wince* Mostly me going on about how useless and ugly I am. God damn, thank Christ I grew some self-esteem!
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Date: 2010-11-06 12:10 pm (UTC)The thing is with generalities, is that they are true - with *some* of the population. I know people exactly like she is describing and I try to have as little to do with them as humanly possible.
But you can't generalise, and you can't boil these behaviours down to gender alone. There's a lot more nurture involved than nature, and culture is an incredibly powerful thing in human beings.
And really - she's saying that the people who determine if you're beautiful or not are men. And that's wrong. Because I'm sure there are a lot of people in your life that think you're beautiful. All of us are.
Oh, I'm glad I've never, ever been an opinion column writer, because some of the dumb-shit things I've said in the past would be so horrifying now. Though, a lot still remains in my journal. *wince* Mostly me going on about how useless and ugly I am. God damn, thank Christ I grew some self-esteem!