Self-denial is the biggest line of bullshit Christianity ever peddled. Living for others will drain you dry. Take care of yourself, because no one else will.
I can't remember where I read this (probably Daily Beast, or hell, maybe here!) so forgive me, but a couple weeks ago I saw an op-ed about how Hallmark movies are setting their viewers up for disappointment. The vast majority of their audience are white, suburban females aged 55+ who fantasize about their kids returning home from the ungodly, liberal cities and don't really get why they are fleeing conservative areas for better opportunities.
I know a pretty idiot-proof recipe for refrigerator fudge that uses a block of cream cheese. My goodness, I didn’t think it was possible for an article to reek of pumpkin spice, but that Federalist article certainly did. The Shop Around the Corner is on TCM, Saturday, about a pair of retail clerks getting over their mutual pride and prejudice. You watch that, you won’t be going back to Hallmark’s retrograde, imitation maple flavored schmaltz.
I never thought much about getting married but I knew I never wanted to be subservient to a guy.
In our house it was a partnership between parents, hence the power struggle arguments that flared (and disappeared quickly) and the expectation that all of us kids , girl or boy, would do chores and eventually work for a living.
I've never seen a Hallmark Xmas movie and never want to. However, I have seen a few previews and clips and they're all cringey and vomit inducing. What kind of freak would actually watch something like that, let alone enjoy it?
I love the way that Katie Łastowiecka takes her own secret desires, (I presume), and assumes that all women everywhere feel the same way. But, then, that is the conservative operating mode.
It's that or she was given the assignment and BSed her way thru it like a Senior writing their college essay, in which case she definitely knows her audience!
I'm guessing she doesn't watch the Hallmark movies where the romance centers on gay folks or people doing a job they love who meet someone also doing a job they love in the same city or women escaping the confines of their small towns to go for that big job in the city. All of those exist alongside movies about women (and men!) who find themselves in a small town at Christmas and somehow find love. Having been through lots of small town Christmases, I can attest this is not your best bet, even for finding a "traditional" love story. It's more likely you'll find a story where someone is trying to help a cousin kick their meth habit, which is not exactly Hallmark fare. Folks need to stop fetishizing small town life.
That's because most of them are interchangeable. No shade on actors making a living however they can, but there's a standard bland white people thing happening in a majority of the movies. The more diverse movies are often better and can also be found on Hallmark channels.
"The “traditional family unit” containing a man, a woman, and their children"
The Nuclear Family is a recent invention, like the 1950s. A TRADITIONAL traditional family would include a lot more old folks, grandkids, in-laws, cousins and whatnot. Like Rebecca's!
One thing I’ve noticed is that when conservatives complain that their lifestyle choices aren’t “permissible,” they just mean “not popular with anyone born after 1960.”
BossBabes: before you quit your high-powered job in the city to move back to that hick town you grew up in to live with the guy who owns a Christmas tree farm, remember to ask him where he was on January 6, 2021.
Research this please. https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/gender-equality/
Self-denial is the biggest line of bullshit Christianity ever peddled. Living for others will drain you dry. Take care of yourself, because no one else will.
Lucifer agrees with you 100%. You are a Luciferian preacher.
I can't remember where I read this (probably Daily Beast, or hell, maybe here!) so forgive me, but a couple weeks ago I saw an op-ed about how Hallmark movies are setting their viewers up for disappointment. The vast majority of their audience are white, suburban females aged 55+ who fantasize about their kids returning home from the ungodly, liberal cities and don't really get why they are fleeing conservative areas for better opportunities.
yet another person projecting the 'why isn't everything like in a movie' all over the place
I know a pretty idiot-proof recipe for refrigerator fudge that uses a block of cream cheese. My goodness, I didn’t think it was possible for an article to reek of pumpkin spice, but that Federalist article certainly did. The Shop Around the Corner is on TCM, Saturday, about a pair of retail clerks getting over their mutual pride and prejudice. You watch that, you won’t be going back to Hallmark’s retrograde, imitation maple flavored schmaltz.
I never thought much about getting married but I knew I never wanted to be subservient to a guy.
In our house it was a partnership between parents, hence the power struggle arguments that flared (and disappeared quickly) and the expectation that all of us kids , girl or boy, would do chores and eventually work for a living.
Those movies of this genre are so annoying and silly. They are as unrealistic to me as that sad bleak Carly Simon song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYUZxp12gQI
I've never seen a Hallmark Xmas movie and never want to. However, I have seen a few previews and clips and they're all cringey and vomit inducing. What kind of freak would actually watch something like that, let alone enjoy it?
What sort of freak subscribes to social engineering by central bankers behind the UN? The ignorant kind, that’s who. https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/gender-equality/
I'll ask my mother the next time I see her. LOL
Seriously though I don't get it either. They all seem to have the same plot (or variation of) and only the characters are different!
I love the way that Katie Łastowiecka takes her own secret desires, (I presume), and assumes that all women everywhere feel the same way. But, then, that is the conservative operating mode.
It's that or she was given the assignment and BSed her way thru it like a Senior writing their college essay, in which case she definitely knows her audience!
I'm guessing she doesn't watch the Hallmark movies where the romance centers on gay folks or people doing a job they love who meet someone also doing a job they love in the same city or women escaping the confines of their small towns to go for that big job in the city. All of those exist alongside movies about women (and men!) who find themselves in a small town at Christmas and somehow find love. Having been through lots of small town Christmases, I can attest this is not your best bet, even for finding a "traditional" love story. It's more likely you'll find a story where someone is trying to help a cousin kick their meth habit, which is not exactly Hallmark fare. Folks need to stop fetishizing small town life.
The picture at the top of this article is confusing because it looks like the same two people star in all eight of these movies,
That's because most of them are interchangeable. No shade on actors making a living however they can, but there's a standard bland white people thing happening in a majority of the movies. The more diverse movies are often better and can also be found on Hallmark channels.
The words she's looking for:
People want easy answers. Some find solace in a few hours of mindless TV, some try to make everyone create their version of reality.
Thanks Robyn. Insightful. Also, I didn’t know Hallmark movies and Lifetime movies were different thingy. Real timesaver there.
"The “traditional family unit” containing a man, a woman, and their children"
The Nuclear Family is a recent invention, like the 1950s. A TRADITIONAL traditional family would include a lot more old folks, grandkids, in-laws, cousins and whatnot. Like Rebecca's!
One thing I’ve noticed is that when conservatives complain that their lifestyle choices aren’t “permissible,” they just mean “not popular with anyone born after 1960.”
You seem like you’ve fully embraced the social engineering paid for by global central banks. Brain washed you are. https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/gender-equality/
You seem like you have no idea what you’re talking about.
Hallmark Christmas movies are proof that ChatGPT has been writing screenplays for years now.
BossBabes: before you quit your high-powered job in the city to move back to that hick town you grew up in to live with the guy who owns a Christmas tree farm, remember to ask him where he was on January 6, 2021.
Ask yourself where you were when brains were being handed out. https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/gender-equality/