After Titanic the movie, The Notebook is another movie that is hyped as this great love story. It's beloved everywhere, but is it really a movie to be celebrated?
Here's the plot;
A girl falls in love with a guy her family doesnโt approve of
She eventually leaves him, moves on, gets engaged to a good man
Then she runs back into the ex
So she cheats on her man
Calls it โtrue love.โ
Women all over love this move
Now flip the genders;
A man:
Leaves a woman who loves him.
Gets engaged to another woman.
Cheats on his fiancรฉe with his ex.
โFollows his heart.โ
That movie would be canceled, boycotted, and used in think-pieces for decades about how movies perpetuate misogyny
Same behavior
Different framing
Totally different judgment
So when people say โitโs romantic,โ what they really mean is - it's okay for a woman to cheat