Chick flicks
So I’m sitting at home in my warm sweats bundled up like an Eskimo on the biggest red chair in my entire house watching reruns of the first season of “The OC,” and for some reason I’ve come to realize it’s addicting.
For those of you who have yet to experience “The OC” in it’s entirety I will say that it’s a basic chick show. Not to put down the sweet guys who are willing to sit beside you and laugh at Seth or as you tear up when something happens (yet again) to Ryan, but all in all it revolves around teenage romances, and high school, and all the usual stuff you might classify as a “girl show.”
But it’s not just “The OC.” It’s stuff like “Laguna Beach” and “The Notebook” that make girls go crazy. And I’m not saying that all girls like these kinds of things, and I’m not implying that boy’s shouldn’t, but it just seems the norm that girls get addicted to these shows.
Personally I don’t mind sitting down and watching “Family Guy” with my brother, or turning the lights off to watch a scary movie at midnight (though I will admit that I am not the bravest person in the world), but nonetheless I feel so addicted to some of these “chick flicks.” When I asked my friend Charlie Wan to name the last chick flick he saw, he answered“‘Cinderella.” I don’t know about you, but I wouldn’t exactly consider that a chick flick.
I think it must just be something about girls. I mean boys go through the same things — they come to school every day, they have friend troubles, they have relationships — but for some reason it just doesn’t seem to click with a guy as a much as it does with a girl.
“The OC” focuses on a boy, yet as a girl I still find it heart-wrenching and touching, whereas I don’t think as many boys get attached to a show or movie in that way (at least not as openly!). I guess it’s just something about girls that have us latch onto these stereotypical TV shows. But what that “thing” actually is, I’m not sure.
— Lizzy Warner