Misrepresentative

Rating: 5/10 (2 July 2016)

One thing that I did not like about this movie is that it portraits men as the weaker partner in a relationship. Why do they have to obey their wives all the time? Why do they have to be the ones that have to change? They are not valued and that does not drive them away instead it makes them want these women even more. For example, the scene when Debbie accuses Pete for not caring about the offenders in the neighbour. She treats him quite bad and he just takes it. Or when she does not respect Pete's need for alone time. I do understand that the men were maybe in the wrong and were acting irresponsible but my point is why are men portrait as irresponsible and woman as the know-all and always in the rights in the first place? It's like men were the kids and woman the parents. And because of that men needed to change and beg the woman to take them back.
I just think that real life relationships are not like this. Woman are not always the more mature partner and therefore should not always get their way because sometimes they are wrong. But because people see movies like this, they create this idea that men should always be the ones to change or beg to get back together. Just not real life.