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Why was Sherry rude to Bill?...

posted 17 years ago by grapplernz
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In the bar when she was flirting with him and he rejected her advances, she called him a homo.

She should have known better quite frankly.

[–] BReal23 17 years ago

Yeah, all the injustices committed by men are pointed out but most people don't say anything about this scene. Feminism is out of control.

[–] TheManInOil 16 years ago

That's hardly feminism. It's a case of an insecure girl who wants to believe that the only reason a man would reject her is homosexuality.

"He married her six weeks after the... previous sequence."

[–] alkamal_r 16 years ago

Yes, such an "injustice" being called a homo for rejecting a drunk girl for being too young. Completely comparable to having a portaloo's worth of wet turds dumped on your head, amongst other things. COMPLETE injustice!

Ironically, this isn't even ironic at all.

[–] jennifermw 17 years ago

Yes she should have. I think she was just insulted and drunk. Or maybe being in a culture of harrassment like that rubs off on a person and makes them do the exact things that are being done to them.

That said, I don't know what the point of that scene was, maybe just to show where Bill was at personally? That he was struggling with women?

[–] jlam888 17 years ago

Remember this film is about gender roles and its impact on people and society: the men harrassed the women because in their opinion they were not supposed to work in the mine. Sherry harrassed Bill and called him a homo in the bar because he was not "up for it" like a man is expected to be.

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