Please, Make Insulting Chick Flicks Go Away

“Simone de Beauvoir famously announced that ‘One is not born a woman, but becomes one,’ in her 1949 treatise The Second Sex. She might have added: ‘But it takes Hollywood to turn one into an hysterical fashion-mongering man-craving anorexic caricature.’ … The good news, for right-thinking women everywhere, is that the contemporary cardboard chick flick may yet eat itself without any help from feminist producers or activist audiences.”