"The Big Lie"

I really enjoyed this reading by Mantu, which discusses "The Big Lie," the heteronormative idea that women sit around and wait for men to come sweep them off of their feet and save them from whatever circumstances they are faced with. This is problematic for a few reasons. One, like Lacey said, this is a heteronormative idea, meaning that this only works for people who are heterosexual (women seeking man, vise versa) which is excluding a pretty big chunk of people in the first place. Secondly, these ideas depicted in film and literature are definitely not what every woman or man is looking for. Thirdly, this is not the kind of idea society should be feeding to young men and women. For example, pop artist Katy Perry has a song titled, "Not Like The Movies," where Perry sings, "It's not like the movies/that's how it should be"  Like the title of the chapter says, it truly is a big lie. Life is just that, life, it is real and different for everyone person who experiences theirs, films and music and books, they're often a work of creative fiction. Setting yourself up for a love 'like the movies" may not get you very far and more than likely will have negative effects rather than positive ones.