I mean...hi. I'm a super average person, no shit. I write. I have a blog here, which I never visit because I'm writing or drinking or whatnot. I raise small humans, and two FANTASTIC Dogs, a fox terrier mix named Logan and a saucy ass chihuahua named Taco Potato. I'm married to a man who is like if David Duchovny and that guy from Midnight Express had an attractive baby together. It's pretty ok, I feel pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty good. But, nearly three years after publishing this completely (or should have been) inconsequential review of how much I dislike the film Rudy, a 1993 piece of actual shit starring the otherwise lovely Sean Astin as Rudy Ruettiger, a hapless kid who wants to play football for Notre Dame and eventually does, kind of, not really, a little bit.
Anyway, a lot of men have written to me to tell me I'm trash because of it. This is not a lie. If I was gonna lie about something, this would not be it. I got this last night:
Anyway, a lot of men have written to me to tell me I'm trash because of it. This is not a lie. If I was gonna lie about something, this would not be it. I got this last night:
Ok, so if this genius is too highbrow for you, also, let's break this message down: I'm a bad mom, too stupid to understand a children's movie, and possibly dangerous because I don't like a movie. I wish I could even say this was the worst thing anyone has ever said to me about my Rudy blog, and by worst I mean funniest, but ofc that plum goes to some other dude who once told me that I'm the reason "that women are basically useless." Me! Little Ole me! And really, folks, I'm shocked but not surprised.
Me and Rudy, icing our sick burns
I'm not gonna mince words here- I literally had to spend 4 dollars to buy my son the Toca Mystery House app so he'd give me 15 mins to write this and that's winding down fast, bitches. Here's what I hear again and again, other then I'm a miserable bitch, which, lol, yes, is true: People- men- believe I missed the point in my judgment of Rudy, because they believe that Rudy's story is a universal story for anyone who ever had a dream, for the underdog, for anyone willing to work and fight. Let me be real clear- Rudy is not a universal story. Rudy is a story for cis white middle class dudes who have a dream what feels reasonable to the majority of other cis white middle class dudes,ie sports or landing a hot babe or whatever. And if that sounds unfair then you've probably never lacked representation in the media or in popular culture. If you've decided that Rudy's story is default, it's because you believe *white male* to be society's default setting, and that's not my problem, only OH, IT FUCKING IS. I hated this movie, which was required viewing for my then 13 year old stepson by his I'm sure well meaning football coach, and just turned out to be steaming wet shit that benefited exactly no one on a larger scale, and only enforced stupid platitudinous garbage that has the rest of us rolling our eyes for all eternity. I don't care. Don't @ me, as the kiddies say. Go listen to Alex Jones, or whatever. What you doing up late reading 3 year old reviews of a 30 year old movie, anyway, damn.
"wow, she really doesn't like this movie."
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