When Harry Met Sandy and Wouldn't Take 'No' for an Answer

[actaea]

I'm sitting on the couch, watching holiday weekend movies on TV--specifically Hope Floats, a middle-of-the-road Sandra Bullock chick flick from the 90s. In this movie she plays a 35-year-old former prom queen whose husband (implausibly) leaves her for her best friend. Devastated, she retreats back to her tiny, midwestern home town to move in with

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[gavinworld]

Yup - relentless male characters are usually portrayed as romantic (e.g., The Graduate), while relentless female characters are usually portrayed as losers and/or candidates for the psych ward (e.g., Fatal Attraction).

[zamiel]

Which is sad for we guys who like relentless women ...

[actaea]

You've had those. They just weren't the relentless women you WANTED. Which, I admit, has to suck, because how do you get rid of them?

[zamiel]

And yet, I always seem to.