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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Krowbar who wrote (38500)	5/30/1999 10:24:00 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Del, for most girls, wearing a long white dress covered with pearls or whatever, and a veil that has to be carried by several bridesmaids, is still an essential fantasy. Don't girls all over the world still have dreams of who they will marry, and will he be handsome, and will their wedding be beautiful and romantic, and will they live happily ever after? If you look at old fairy tales this is absolutely basic, and the very romantic movies that teenagers and young (and not so young) women are drawn to are part of the same tapestry of hopes and aspirations. I don't think healthy girls in America at the end of the twentieth century feel that a man will always take care of them, and certainly don't feel submissive or subservient to men most of the time. But there is something hard wired into girls about finding the most wonderful man they can, and settling down and having babies together. The hard wired part makes sense, since only girls who adapted in this way survived to carry on their genes. Speaking of romantic, my daughter and I went to see the new movie with Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant, "Notting Hill", yesterday. It was SO romantic!! In fact, it made both of us just want more romance (and me want to see more of Hugh Grant), so we went to the video store and rented "Four Weddings and a Funeral" and "French Kiss", two of the most romantic movies I could think of, and we settled in for a long romantic Saturday night. Anyway, that's why they're called chick flicks!! This is an area where girls are definitely very traditional, even in this feminist age. They want to be loved and cuddled and swept off their feet, even though they are perfectly willing to bring home half the bacon and everything.