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Why Women Are Often Portrayed As An Unstable Mess?
It’s time for us to start communicating better.
It’s all about communication — everything in our lives. We are either sending messages to the world or receiving messages from it. And I am tired of seeing how often women are portrayed as an unstable mess and by other women.
Recently I watched the series “On the Verge” created and directed by Julie Delpy. Some of my favourite movies are Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, and Before Midnight, the trilogy starring Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke. So I like Julie. I like her acting, but I have a problem with her view of what it is to be a woman, even more in their forties and fifties, because in her series, they are behaving like teenagers.
I was trying to understand why they were so unstable and so messy, and then I came to the conclusion that they don’t know how to communicate. In the series, we meet four women, and it feels like they don’t know what they are doing. They can’t communicate with their husbands or ex-partners, and sometimes with their kids, and they don’t know how to set boundaries. In addition, they don’t know how to manage their money.
I understand that the series is a comedy and needs to be funny, but I am not laughing when I just see women behaving poorly. I am 32 years old, and I am not the…
