Wednesday, 24 August 2011
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PSA to GUYS: Don't Trust Eat Pray Love
Don’t Trust Eat Pray Love.
I’ve been doing the online dating thing and have come to learn something. The women that answer the question: “The last book you read and enjoyed:” with Eat Pray Love are not to be trusted. They are independent women. Which is fantastic, no doubt, but in my opinion, are searching for something that doesn’t exist.
They are wanting to find their fairy tale, their stringencies will comb out the weeds, the dandruff and lice of life. They want to be suaved off their ass, they want to be smarted out of their clothes, they want to flirted into your pants.
I never read the book or watched the movie but to me there seems to be a misinterpretation… I admit, it may be a misinterpretation on my side because of my straight-up distrust and disgust in women, but that’s for therapy in the morning.
I think women interpret this as an empowerment book, of how to take back “the power” and control of your life. When in reality it is how to give it up.We don’t need to eat our way out of our happiness, praying won’t solve a damn thing, and loving our way into life is like a blind man leading the deaf into war (too many possible jokes here so I went with that one).
The only way to truly embrace life is to trust it.
Think about the things you eat and why you are scared to eat certain things – either because its "gross" (doesn’t taste good/feel good) or because of fear: embrace the fear and try the blowfish and maybe you’ll walk out of the restaurant.Think of all the issues with religion, most of it comes down to misinterpretation which purely comes out of assumptions which means ignorance and thus fear. We fear what we do not understand.
Thus comes love. If it hasn’t worked in our favor in the past we have no reason to trust or believe in it now, I am your prime example!
Why can’t men trust women that follow the religion in Eat Pray Love? It's because it’s been so dramatized that they are essentially following the religion of The Notebook, Titanic, Romeo + Juliet, or anything shat out by Nicolas Sparks. They feel it should or has happened to them; that a happy ending is the only thing that could result.
Happy endings are endings! If things were happy they wouldn’t fucking end! If it ends it's miserable. Common sense, duh. But that’s what happens when estrogen is stirred with the ice cream spoon while sitting on the couch. It becomes filthy dirty with the gooey mess of BULL.SHIT.
So if you come across a women that states: the most recent book read that she enjoyed, and she answers, "Eat Pray Love," pray to God that she doesn’t eat your soul and love the fact that you ran away from her delusional ass because it will consume you, spit you out and leave you in the gutter with all the other boyfriends that have been cheated on because she felt that her prayers were to love a bigger dick than you (take that how you will).
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"pray to God that she doesn’t eat your soul and love the fact that you
ran away from her delusional ass because it will consume you, spit you
out and leave you in the gutter with all the other boyfriends that have
been cheated on because she felt that her prayers were to love a bigger
dick than you"
uhhh.......tell me how you really feel hahahaha
"So if you come across a women that states: the most recent book read
that she enjoyed, and she answers, "Eat Pray Love," pray to God that she
doesn’t eat your soul and love the fact that you ran away from her
delusional ass because it will consume you, spit you out and leave you
in the gutter with all the other boyfriends that have been cheated on
because she felt that her prayers were to love a bigger dick than you
(take that how you will)."
TRUTH.
WHERE THE HELL IS MANCOUCH!?
hahahaha i loved this. lol.
"I never read the book or watched the movie but to me there seems to be a misinterpretation". You can't really have a valid opinion then. How can you tell if people are misinterpreting it if you don't even know what's in it?
"We don’t need to eat our way out of our happiness, praying won’t solve a damn thing, and loving our way into life is like a blind man leading the deaf into war." That's not at all what the book is about. Although you're idea of fear fits with it. The book is about finding out what makes you happy and going out and doing it. The author takes her trip to rediscover what makes her happy, something that she's lost through relationships. She's always wanted to learn Italian, so she does and decides to go to Italy. There's a ton of good food in Italy and she gains a lot of weight. She's a spiritual women who has always wanted to visit an ashram in India, so she does it. While there, she learns to let go of the things that she would obsess about that make her stressed and unhappy. Indonesia is somewhere that she's been before and for numerous reasons, she decides to go there. She rediscovers doing things just because she wants to. There, she finds love.It's not about how if you eat, pray, and love you'll find your happy ending. That's how the author found her own happiness. The book is a memoir, it's personal. The part that's meant for everyone is the idea that if you're not happy, let go of your fears (I said you had the general idea) and make yourself happy.
I did watch the movie because I couldn't get past the chapter when her soon to be ex was begging her to come back (sorry if I spoiled it for those who were planning to read it).
My mom and I watched the movie together and afterwards she asked me how I thought about it since it also had a raving review in the Korean network. My opinion? She gave up everything; wealth, her marriage, her lack of career, because she didn't want it. She wasn't happy in her marriage, she was having an identity crisis esp. while her dumbass ex was trying out every occupation on the face of the planet, she was simply expected to be there for him and have babies within the next year or so. She wanted MORE; life that didn't revolve around her ex husband who wanted her to be happy to be with him and have babies.
In the end of it though, she found "happiness" after meditating, tasting every delectable foods of Europe and traveled through many countries... with a man who wanted her to be happy with him because he was happy with her. I felt, after the viewing, that she went back to the life that she left but different guy and different lifestyle/environment. She prayed, meditated and led a "love thy neighbour" life. Before, she was stuck, taking care of many consequences and end results of her ex husband's hat of jobs try ons.
I didn't see it as an enpowerment book, but I could see how it could be misunderstood by many to leave their husbands and family lives to seek one's own individual passion for LIFE. We are raised to believe that we can be anything as we grow up. We (as women) are not confined to the kitchen, babies and making dinners on time any longer. We are raised to believe that we can have a career and feel fulfilled into having a family that supports us just the same. Somewhere in the movie, she lost that. The main character did not feel supported by her husband as she took care of matters by hself. She wasn't encouraged to be MORE than a wife and a possible mom in the nearest future. But seeing how you didn't actually read or view the movie, how can you make a judgment call to warn guys NOT to trust women who just finished reading the book?
Im a guy and watched the movie (not the Indonesia parts - just Italy, some India and beginning)
Guys used to do this to girls in the 70s.
Now girls are doing it to guys as well.
I don't trust anything that prays.
i'm not entirely clear on your beef with eat pray love, nor can i tell whether or not you just did this for your own lols.
alsoooo, i'm not entirely sure how you can have beef with something you know very little about first hand.
1) You gotta at least watch the movie to flip shit about it. It's going to take you all of a pair of hours, and you'll actually have credibility to voice complaints directed towards the primary material.
2) You do know that Romeo + Juliet is just Romeo and Juliet, right? Baz Luhrmann didn't take any liberties on the whole double-suicide thing. It isn't a happy ending, and, outside some quasi-illiterate teenagers and Taylor Swift, no one actually reads R+J as a comedy (i.e., happy ending). It might drive some with short-term memories or undeveloped frontal lobes to attempt to emulate the titular characters, but any literate individual will likely remember the whole host of self-stabbing at the end of the story...
i enjoyed it but i didn't think it was the best book in the world.
the movie sucked ASS! But my ex loved it and... yea she's the independent type of girl with her bull shit fairy tale that I lived up to but then wanted someone better. and i was like WTF
The book has nothing to do with having delusional perception about relationships. It's a book to help women get their shit together when everything falls apart. So what wrong with that? How can you make a conclusion if you haven't even watched the movie, even though the movie wasn't really a good depiction of the book. First do your research before you state your points.
"I think women interpret this as an empowerment book, of how to
take back “the power” and control of your life. When in reality it is
how to give it up. "
This!
I don't know anything about this book but I'm against it just because I've heard it described as "female empowerment".
Who the fuck isn't happy having a husband to come home and bang whenever you want?
Not sure how I feel about this now...seeing as I posted it I think during the first week of February and it was just posted?! haha
ps. You can have some thoughts without have seen or read it by what others are saying about it. I still haven't read or watched the movie.
I didn't watch the movie or the read the book, but it is available to stream instantly on Netflix. I'll probably watch it on a boring day.
i think the premise of the book is dumb. if you run away from your life, you're just a coward. and, presumably, ungrateful for the wonderful things you do have. i just cannot take any story seriously when it's about a rich person complaining.