Mel Gibson On Dating Sites?!
A few nights ago my husband and I watched the movie What Women Want, starring Mel Gibson and Helen Hunt. The movie revolves around the experience of a chauvinistic man who, by accident, finds himself capable of hearing the inner thoughts of women. This guy is a serial dater - dating for him is a game, and he uses women in the most sickening way. Goodness know what he would have been like at online dating - I would dread finding him on dating sites. Anyway, at first he finds that his gift is more like a curse, but later finds ways to cope with his ability and use it to his best advantage.
While the movie does a great job of illustrating the ways in which this ability could be a positive, I can’t help but think it more a curse. Do men really want to hear the inner private thoughts of women? Being a woman and weighing my own inner thoughts, I’m gonna go with a resounding “Hell no!”. It could be helpful in certain situations, sure, but how often do you really want to know what you’re significant other is truly thinking? I feel that there are some emotions, thoughts or behaviors that should just remain private or at best well-shadowed for the happiness and well-being of everyone involved. It’s a part of my personal belief that you shouldn’t ask questions that you don’t really want to know the answers to, unless it’s a have-to-know kind of scenario. For instance, I try hard not to ask my husband’s opinion about what I’m wearing, because he’s been honest enough to speak the truth more than once, and I found myself better off not knowing. Besides that point I also believe that I as a woman (or maybe it’s just me) am extremely contradictory from one day to the next about what I want. Sometimes I want my husband to engage in active conversation with me and sometimes I just wish he’d shut up for a little while. Trying to keep up with my specific desires on a day to day basis would surely get exhausting, in particularly if you’re reading my mind to get your clues. That, and although I do sometimes wish my husband would just be quiet for a little bit, I certainly don’t want him to hear that particular thought.
Related posts: