My Super-Ex Girlfriend
My Super Ex-Girlfriend is a name of a movie that popped up when I was searching for this week’s blog. Under the title of the movie reads, “He Wanted a Break, Now She Wants Him to Break.” The first thing I noticed about this was the cover itself.
There is a woman very scantily dressed standing in a very empowering stance while she is crushing the hood of a car. The story line of this movie is that the two characters on the cover are dating, but he wants to break up with her. He finds out that she is a crime-fighting, disaster-solving superhero named G-Girl who is also very needy, neurotic, and unpredictably volatile, he realizes that he must break up with her or he will face the potentially deadly consequences. Once he does break up with her she portrays the “bitchy female stereotype” as the one who was dumped.
To me this is portraying the fact that if a woman is powerful, she must have some negative qualities about her. I do not think this is a positive portrayal at all. I know that I would have definitely noticed this image before we discussed this topic in class because of the way in which the female is portrayed on the cover of the film.