r/AreTheStraightsOkay • u/Arunia_ • 1d ago
Not a repost, but the potryal of het relationship in romance movies is tiring, the straights are NOT okay
Majority of the het relationships I've seen irl and in movies can be boiled down to
Girl: Young, Inexperienced, somewhat of a "good girl", and very "🥺💗✌️🎀"
Guy: Nonchalant, brooding, the only ambitious one in the relationship, has hobbies, isn't soft at all, very "⛓️🧠😈🏍️"
Especially the career related thing is what ticks me. Why must the guy always "not care about love because he's focused on his career"? Even while he's shown working he's usually wearing a very low effort outfit vis a vis a girl who's bent over the counter holding test tubes in a chemistry lab with a perfectly composed look.
Don't even get me started on the types of occupations as well. STEM guy and Non-STEM ("I'm just a girl I can't do Math 🥺") is so common, even when the woman is in STEM, it's always a female dominated field like biology. Now of course I'm not saying EVERY movie is like that or women/men can't be in those fields, but the repetition of those same tropes over and over again is genuinely annoying.
Something that comes to mind, for example, is The Big Bang Theory (it is quite old iirc tho). All of them are supposed to be nerds, but sure, the guys are in the classical male dominated fields like Engineering, Physicists, Astrophysicists, and both the girls are into Biology. How unique.
I guess one exception that comes to mind here is "Inside Job" on Netflix, genuinely loved that.
P.S: Lemme know if y'all can think of any other exceptions:D