39 Times Rom Coms Pissed Me Off

January 12, 2016January 12, 2016 | LizT.

You know what really burns my butt? Romantic Comedies!! Because here I am over here…liberated female, free from the ties that bind me and then a movie like When Harry Met Sally comes on and all that level-headed nonsense goes right out the window because…reasons! It just burns. It stings actually.

And the worst part is that Romantic Comedies and Dramedies and Sitcomedies and all manner of romance, to be honest, make me weak at the knees. One shot of a semi shirtless Mr. Darcy emerging from the pond at Pemberley and I know what I’ll be dreaming about that night. One little romantic speech from Tom Hanks and farewell normal, everyday human male specimen…don’t even bother, cause you’re no Hanks! Again I say, it burns! Because I don’t want to have that vision in my head. That romantic ideal and yet there it sits. Waiting for the moment to strike. The moment when a guy chooses to take me to a Starbucks for a first date instead of guerilla paintball a la 10 Things I Hate About You. Or at the airport while boarding my plane and no one comes to stop me from getting on…how rude! Or how about when I’m at a holiday party with no date and then…no one bursts through the door to save me.

The beautiful truth is that I can save myself, thank you very much. Always have, always will. The crappy side effect of my frail humanity is that I still want to be saved sometimes. In moments of weakness and ice cream… I want it.

And I’ve decided that Rom Coms are to blame. It doesn’t mean for a second that I’ll stop watching them, because I’m a weak human girlie specimen. And also…reasons! Regardless, here are the 39 romantic moments that just piss me off!!! Who’s with me??

(**This is not the order in which I ~~love~~ hate these movies.)

39.The Switch

38. Love and Basketball

37. No Strings Attached

36. Leap Year

35. Never Been Kissed

34. My Big Fat Greek Wedding

33. Someone Like You

32. She’s All That

31. Jerry McGuire

30. The Bodyguard

29. Grease

28. The Wedding Planner

27. Ella Enchanted

26.Say Anything

25. Lady and the Tramp

24. Clueless

23. The Nanny Diaries

22. Friends with Benefits

21. Jane Austen Book Club

20. Because I Said So

19. Hitch

18. How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days

17. Dirty Dancing

16. Emma

15. Moulin Rouge

14. Sleepless in Seattle

13. 27 Dresses

12. Pretty Woman

11. The Mirror Has Two Faces

10. 13 Going on 30

9. 10 Things I Hate About You

8. While You Were Sleeping

7. The Proposal

6. Love Actually

5. The Princess Bride

4. You’ve Got Mail

3. Bridget Jones’ Diary

2. Pride and Prejudice (mini series)

1. When Harry Met Sally (My favorite of all time!)

OK, so some of them aren’t Rom Coms. There are Rom Drams and Rom Musical Coms up there, but you get my drift. Romance is stupid and yucky and I ~~love it~~ hate it!!! Hate with a capital H and that stands for Hate and that rhymes with Hate!

Which Rom Coms are your ~~favorite~~ least favorite!!

7 bonus movies that I was reminded of after hitting publish:

Fools Rush In

The Holiday

The Decoy Bride

My Best Friend’s Wedding

Return to Me

Sweet Home Alabama

Runaway Bride

Girls Do THIS, not THAT

September 22, 2015September 22, 2015 | LizT.

Lately, H (9 year old girl twin) has been struggling with what it means to be a girl. Traditional gender roles don’t appeal to her. She doesn’t like pink. She rarely wears dresses. She loves to skateboard and she has the trendiest short hair cut that’s ever graced a 9 year old’s head. She could easily be a Jolie-Pitt.

Her short hair causes people (mainly elementary and middle school boys) to mistake her for a boy sometimes.

I asked her if it bothered her when they called her a boy. She said, “not really, it just makes me uncomfortable. Cause I really am a girl, Lizzie.” My heart almost broke. This precious girl is starting to find out what it means to be pressured by the world. And that it’s a tough hill to climb. How dare the world start in so early. She’s only 9 years old, for Pete’s sake!!

I told her that these kinds of things happen to everyone. Even me. I told her that plenty of people think girls don’t like Star Wars and superheroes and ninja turtles. I told her some people think that I should be married with kids by now. That maybe I should have a “steady” job and a 401K. But I walk to my own beat and so does H.

I don’t know if that helped her at all. I sort of hope she comes into her own in the not-giving-a-damn-about-what-people-think department. It’s so much better than way!

The other day when we were skateboarding home from school, she took a tumble and as she got back on her skateboard she looked up at me and said, “I fell off cause girls aren’t as good at skateboarding.” I looked at her and said, “Excuse me? Girls aren’t what now??” She laughed and said, “I take it back! I take it back!!”

She knew it wasn’t true, but it was still her first instinct. To write it off. Classic “girls can’t” syndrome. I thought this wouldn’t come till much later, but I guess the self doubt is starting earlier and earlier in kids these days. (Kids these days? I’m officially 500 years old!!)

I don’t want this for her and she’s not even my own child. I want whatever she does to be what it means to be a girl. I want the same for boys. I want her to be able to have the freedom that America offers. Doesn’t that extend to our youth?

Who made these archaic rules anyways? Who decided that long, Disney-channel length hair and a love for all things pink made you a girl? I thought all you needed to be a girl was the mechanics. Time to change it up, America…WORLD! I think we’re on our way, but we still have quite a ways to go.

Tell me again what girls “can’t”do??!!