Flick Chicks by Mindy Kaling
Why does Kaling love rom-coms?
“For me, there is no difference between Ripley from “Alien” and any Katherine Heigl character. They are equally implausible. They’re all participating in a similar level of fakey razzle-dazzle, and I enjoy every second of it.”
The scariest, and also equally funny part for me was the description of “the ethereal weirdo”.
She wears gauzy blouses and braids. She likes to dance in the rain and she weeps uncontrollably if she sees a sign for a missing dog or cat. She might spin a globe, place her finger on a random spot, and decide to move there. The Ethereal Weirdo appears a lot in movies, but nowhere else.
I just think I was disturbed because I used to date someone who was a poster child for the “ethereal weirdo”. There were other reasons why it never worked out, but I realized she definitely lacked the emotional stability I was seeking at the time.
Love is weird. Or my reserved personality and general distaste for fluffy emotionalism killed that one. We’ll never know…
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