{"id":4004,"date":"2020-02-21T13:19:59","date_gmt":"2020-02-21T13:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/?p=4004"},"modified":"2020-02-21T13:19:59","modified_gmt":"2020-02-21T13:19:59","slug":"delingpole-the-atlantic-declares-when-harry-met-sally-sexist-quiet-cruelty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=4004","title":{"rendered":"Delingpole: The Atlantic Declares 'When Harry Met Sally' Sexist, 'Quiet Cruelty'"},"content":{"rendered":"

So you thought that When Harry Met Sally<\/em>\u00a0— the classic 80s rom-com which recently celebrated its 30th anniversary with a competition at Katz’s deli in New York to see who could do the best fake orgasm — was a triumph for its writer Nora Ephron, its star Meg Ryan, and the depiction of rounded, female characters generally?<\/h2>\n

Think again, sexist bigot!<\/p>\n

In fact — so we learn from The Atlantic<\/em>‘s resident kill-joy movie analyst Megan Garber —\u00a0When Harry Met Sally<\/em> set back the cause of feminism by years thanks to its crass invention of a term which has haunted womankind ever since: “High maintenance.”<\/p>\n

The phrase comes from an observation Harry makes to Sally while they are watching Casablanca<\/em>. Ingrid Bergman, he says, is ‘low maintenance.’<\/p>\n

According to Garber, in her piece titled ‘The Quiet Cruelty of When Harry Met Sally<\/em>‘, this phrase is a “reductive” term which acts as an “indictment of women who want.” It has made women insecure ever since as they ask themselves whether, like Sally, they are “the worst kind.”<\/p>\n

Garber complains:<\/p>\n

She doesn’t actually use the word “mansplaining” but that’s clearly what she is getting at here: the patriarchy invents these reductive categories to put down women — and then, lo, women (vulnerable, put-upon victims with absolutely no agency) fall helplessly into the trap that men have set for them.<\/p>\n

In a later paragraph, Garber develops this theme by listing some of the other phrases movieland has invented subtly to demean women.<\/p>\n

Garber puts her case well: you can tell she’s had an education. But it seems to me that her entire argument is far too dependent on the kind of left-wing trope which may make total sense on campus but which in reality is just dishonest, paranoid and, yes, reductive.<\/p>\n

Suppose for a moment than these “designations” Gerber complains of aren’t there to make women feel small, but rather they are a statement of what is, of human nature, of the relationship between the sexes as observed over many centuries?<\/p>\n

When Garber invents this excuse “Calm down, we’re just telling jokes” she gets it completely wrong by misrepresenting her opponents position.<\/p>\n

They’re not making up this stuff because it’s funny.<\/p>\n

What writers like Nora Ephron are doing is saying stuff which is incredibly, observably, satisfyingly true — and which therefore affords the pleasing effect of “comedy of recognition.”<\/p>\n

Or, as Homer Simpson put it, “It’s funny because it’s true.”<\/p>\n

“Cankle,” for example, would not have entered the vocabulary if it did not describe a phenomenon which already existed — and was just waiting to be captured by an observant phrase-maker.<\/p>\n

Same goes for MILF.<\/p>\n

You’d think, wouldn’t you, that on the 30th anniversary of one of the funniest and most successful films ever written by a woman the Sisterhood would find a rare opportunity for celebrating female talent and ingenuity.<\/p>\n

But no, that would be too easy.<\/p>\n

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