How about "prick flicks" for a change?

[eridani]

http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/56219/

That's also why you're left with only half a guide. As usual, bias punishes everyone. Therefore I propose, as the opposite of "chick flick" and an adjective of your very own, "prick flick." Not only will it serve film critics well, but its variants will add to the literary lexicon. For example, "prick lit" could characterize a lot of fiction, from Philip Roth to Bret Easton Ellis and beyond. "True prick" could guide readers to their preferred non-fiction, from the classics of Freud to the populist works of socio-biologists and even Rush Limbaugh.

[taterguy]

1. Great article, really

It sustained my short attention span, but maybe because there aren't any decent war movies on the tube right now.

[Captain Hilts]

2. Bret Easton Ellis movies would be 'sick flicks'. nt

[DS1]

3. SPAR

TA!

[Eric J in MN]

4. Fine by me. NT

NT

[WinkyDink]

5. BBM.

[entanglement]

6. JMHO - but I'd only use such a pithy phrase to describe Adam Sandler movies

:evilgrin:

[Jed Dilligan]

7. No defense of prick lit... but....

Is any of the "chick lit" of today actually as good as the books Steinem re-genders? And weren't Jane Austen and the Brontes from roughly the same time? And don't we remember them because they were good, just as we don't remember Flaubert, Tolstoy, et al. because they had pricks?

We are in a literary and artistic slump and it has nothing to do with gender.

on edit: I got frustrated reading the article because I thought she would give at least one example of good lit that's been suppressed due to female authorship. Because, dammit, I'm looking for something to read!

[eridani]

8. Austen was 18th century and the Brontes 19th century

Austen has often been put down as trivial. I think she's so readable today because her habit of showing characters interacting instead of having so much author-omniscient parenthetical explaining anticipates modern practice.

[Jed Dilligan]

9. Actually Steinem cites sources from the 16th/17th (Shakespeare)

to the 20th century (Williams). There were not as many female authors as male, but those who were great survived--just as bad male authors went down in oblivion. The reason for the gender gap was sexism in social structure--women were not given the opportunity to write and publish, just as poor men generally were not.

I don't approve of Steinem's vision of the genders as two giant personalities engaged in an eternal struggle. It seems like just another formula for shutting people out.

[Marnieworld]

10. Dick flicks would be nicer

Prick has such a negative connotation. You can have a Dick without being a Dick but generally Prick means you are a Prick.

[eridani]

11. IMO "chick" is sort of intermediate between "dick" and "prick" n/t

[JVS]

12. No. Since prick is slang for penis, the term suggests it is a counterpart to "beaver flicks"

Guy/ Dude movies or flicks would work, but prick flicks is too suggestive of porno

[aikoaiko]

13. Like the psycho therapist in the Geico-Caveman commercials... "that doesn't make sense to me"

;)

[Lilith Velkor]

14. For a change?

As if macho bullshit hasn't dominated the film industry for the past 30 years?

:spray: Yeah, right...

[Elspeth]

15. Yeah, but this way it would have a marginalizing label too instead of being considered mainstream

I like it.

[Lilith Velkor]

16. I already have a marginalizing label for both "chick" and "prick" flicks: STUPID

However, stupidity is pretty mainstream.

[Marnieworld]

17. and highly sucessful

I was flipping past one of those Julia Roberts monstrosities last night, I think My Best Fried's wedding. I couldn't believe it but there was a musical number in it. But not in a Broadway way but an odd, everyone is singing the same thing enthusiastically and in reality. It looked like a rehearsal dinner and everyone was singing a known song which escapes me. It went on and on and I watched like I was rubbernecking a horrible accident. Why is this passing for entertainment? I recall this being a big hit too. I'll sooner understand quantum physics before I get Julia Roberts appeal.

[aikoaiko]

18. Its not calling a certain music genre 'cock rock' dissuaded anyone from listening