Re: Ten Lies of Feminism

I just saw the movie directed by Mike Nichols (Carnal Knowledge, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, the Graduate, etc.) called CLOSER. It stars Julia Roberts, Jude Law, Natalie Portman and Clive Owens.

Many have seen this and hated it--because it's very depressing and sick to see the dysfunction and power struggles. However, if perhaps one could say that the 'end justified the means' (sitting thru it) it was a very good study on male/female relationships and why they aren't working. Men and women are NOT the same, and women go into relationships thinking that they will give and receive love on the terms they understand. When they don't understand men, the gals resort to other means and methods.

But the movie wasn't about four dysfunctional people. It was about humans and both genders in general. There is a battle of the sexes raging, since the 'first couple' botched it up. These competing interests (lusts) are the reason that we find high divorce rates (in my county, the divorce rate is 88%!!!) and why you find --even in churches--sexual promiscuity, p 0 r n and the like.

My reason for bringing up the movie is that Mike Nichols has a way of bringing to light the topic on the other end of the spectrum. There was A LOT in that movie. People are trying to find ways to meet their needs. Most of those ways end up being a grab for power when they can't find intimacy in a direct approach, or when they decline to take the high road (forgiveness, forsaking lust, etc.)

I really liked the movie even though it was a bit taudry, etc. There were a lot of messages there and many subjects handled. I thought I'd mention this movie because feminism springs from that same power struggle between the sexes.