Definitely, Maybe

Definitely, Maybe and Playing with Slut
This movie is so cute.
It's a romantic comedy. Not a family movie. A family could go see it because it's not particularly racy, but don't let the presence of the kid fool you.
Ryan Reynolds (Mr Ex Alanis Morrissette) is a good looking young professional single father with a mature elemetary school aged daughter played by Abigail Breslin. One day she inquires about her mother and he tells her about three romances all the while changing names and facts - except for one of the women. Breslin gets the ultimate line when she asks Reynolds what the male version of the word slut is. He gets an equally excellent line when he answers they haven't come up with one yet.
The week point of the movie is that we get the feeling that Breslin has never met her mother, yet one day her mother walks up to the father daughter duo and it feels like she knows her­. She doesn't run up to her and hold on for dear life because she has missed most of her daughter's life, but she still seems to care. The meeting is like the one of a good morning kiss not a I haven't seen you since you were born kind of thing. It left me somewhat confused.
As for the slut comment, it bothers me so much that in these pollitically correct and enlightened times that women are still not permitted the same freedom as men. It's almost worse. No one will stop a woman from being free with her body, if it's her choice, but she'd better be ready to live with the consequences if it gets out. Whereas the guy just gets to keep on going with his daily and nightly life. Even on talk shows on TV, Girls are questioned about their self respect with regards to teenage or underaged physical dalliances, but the screws are never put to the boys. What's up with that. It's almost perverse. It's almost like society is jonesing for a reason to be misogynistic. Women and men persecute these women and girls. If men are so wonderful, why is their freedom not reciprocated. Why aren't the boys grilled like the girls.
What angers me even more is that no one points out the fact that a girl does not normally act this out alone or with another girl. Society just keeps turning a blind eye to the boys because boys will be boys but girls will be sluts. Sounds a little Orwellian. If there is not slut word for men people won't be able to even think the thought.
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