I have to admit, I kind of have the sense of humor of a 12 year old boy. Words like penis, vagina, and fart almost always make me laugh (or at least internally snicker). I think gross things are amusing...so this morning when I watched American Reunion for the first time-the unedited version- I thought it was funny. And I thought of my brother watching it, because I knew my mom bought copies of it for us both. I knew he would like it too, but then a thought occurred to me. Neither he or his wife thought Bridesmaids was funny. I guess I can't comprehend how you can think the American Pie movies are funny but Bridesmaids isn't. They are pretty basically along he same lines...with two differences.
-1 Bridesmaids was actually a lot better, with some actual smart humor as opposed to just jokes and gags about sex and bodily function.
-2 Bridesmaids was about girls.
So, is that it? Are they discriminatory against women getting a laugh for being gross and sexual ? Is it funny for a guy to poop in a beer cooler, but not for a girl to poop in a sink? Is it funny for a guy to get sexually dissed by a girl that was supposed to be less than hot (she really was actually beautiful for the record...just not by Hollywood standards, I guess), but not funny for Kristen Wiig to fake orgasms with a jerk-off?
I don't know. It just kind of pissed me off, because it seems clear to me that there is a gender stereotype they are perpetuating. Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but seriously, if you didn't think Bridesmaids was any kind of funny, I think something in you is broken.
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