Chicken Flicks

"What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Chicken flicks. It started as a typo, yet evolved to this.

Whenever I'm even the slightest upset, I turn to a classic romance movie, a "chick flick", to make me feel better. Being as girly as I am, I have always loved these "chick flicks". Yet I soon noticed a pattern. There is a direct correlation between my feelings and these romance movies. As my negative feelings increased, so did my viewing of these "chick flicks". Why? All of a sudden I realized this; realized that I was not only watching these "chick flicks" because I enjoyed the plot: this appreciation, maybe even obsession, was deeper than that. I practically viewed these "chick flicks", religiously, for a single reason, a single word: answers.

Maybe I am just another naive girl, who is a crystal clear reason as to why they call these movies "chick flicks", but maybe I am going somewhere with this. Maybe the reason why we, or just us "chicks", are so attracted to these movies is because, maybe somehow, we feel as if these movies will give us answers. I'll suck up my pride and admit this (only once), "chick flicks" are semi-predictable. There is always that one character who is a hopeless romantic, this is where the attraction and appreciation for these movies may have triggered. We feel hopeless looking for answers, just like how that one character is hopelessly in search of love. Here is the irony though. By the end of every "chick flick", that hopeless romantic does, somehow, find his answer, even if his answer wasn't what he expected. And maybe by the end of all these"chick flick's", we don't feel hopeless for an answer anymore. Maybe the reason why we, or just us "chicks", appreciate these movies so much is because, maybe by the end of each movie, we feel/have a sense of hope. A sense of hope that helps us, or just us "chicks", believe that we will find our answer, even if it isn't what we expect.

That is where chicken flicks plays a role. I call this post chicken flicks to direct a certain audience. An audience who mocks these "chick flicks"; an audience who believes these "chick flicks" are downright absurd. Now I am trying my best to act partial with this audience; I will still try to understand this audience. But if any one who is reading this fits under this category, this audience, I ask of one thing: try to understand me, as well. If you think we, or us "chicks", only appreciate these movies because we want that PERFECT love affair; then, you're off. And although I cannot admit this towards everyone, I can declare this for myself. I do not find interest in these movies simply to find a corny romance in my life; it is much deeper than that. I find interest to these movies simply because they give me hope. These movies help me achieve hope, because they make me feel like I can find an answer too, just like that hopeless romantic.

I have one more thing to say to this particular audience, for clarification( as humerous as this sounds) I am directing the audience against these "chick flicks". If you still feel no change in perspective towards these movies, or at least towards why they impact us "chicks" so greatly, then as immature as this is about to sound, I have one thing to say to you. You are a chicken. A big, fat, scared chicken. If after all of this, you still consider "chick flicks" just corny romance movies, then I consider you a chicken because I believe you are just scared to admit that these "chick flicks" are more. And you are scared to admit that they are more, because maybe you are scared/in denial of hope. And please don't lose/be against hope. Because if there is one thing that has kept me going in life, it is hope. And I can understand why after bashing you, you would not want to follow a single word of my advice. But please don't lose hope. You don't have to believe hope comes from these "chick flicks", but at least grasp hope itself.

And that is all I can ask of you, I being another "chick" who likes "chick flicks".