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One Thing Ruined It For Me


The scene where Cameron Diaz punches her boyfriend because she thinks he's been cheating on her was disgusting and ruined the whole movie for me. There is SUCH a double standard here; if HE had punched HER for cheating, the whole movie would have been about her court battle and the fight to have a dangerous abuser locked up, and the man would have been portrayed as an evil monster. Because a woman punches a man, though, it's supposed to be "cute" and "funny." In reality, it's neither. Abuse is abuse, no matter what sex does it, and to violently assault someone like that (and it clearly really hurt his character in the film) makes her allegedly lovable character no better than a wife-beater would have been.

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She isn't proud of it. She does say something like, "Oh my god! I can't believe I punched him! And in the face!"

Nothing about her reaction to her behavior shows that she found it acceptable. She basically admits to being a wreck and out of control for most of the first half of the movie.

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the scene is actually a bit funny. she doesn't actually know how to throw a punch...and he wasn't really hurt by the punch but the indignity of the punch.













Take your pinche color-coordinated sponsored chingada and take a flying fck

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