And not because I'm some cynical, love and romance and fairytale hating loner.
...not entirely anyway ;)
I think they're ridiculous. I think they put unfair standards on men and give women these unlikely and unrealistic expectations of what their "knight in shining armor" is supposed to say/do/be.
Now, don't get me wrong here, I'm certainly not some radical feminist. But I think it's sad how we like to put men up on pedestals and view them as things we need to attain. We idealize them and then get our hearts broken when they turn out to be, ya know, people. But that's what they are. As John Green says, "what a treacherous thing it is to think that a person is more than a person."
We're taught practically from the time we enter the world that we need to wear certain things and act certain ways to gain male attention. We focus so much of our time and thought on dating and how to win the next guy or nurse the current heartbreak. Even as we age and mature, society tells us to make plans for ourselves centering around the assumption that we'll be married as a twenty-something.
And so the media certainly isn't helping by shoving these images of the perfectly handsome, perfectly consistent, perfectly perfect prince in our faces constantly. It's just not fair.
And just not real. But then again what is real these days? So maybe it makes sense after all.
and I am just some big ole cynic. Eh, I'm okay with that. :)
