Comment on I told my wife Nightbitch was just Office Space for women and now she's mad at me. AITA?
cRazi_man@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Not sure about passing judgememt on being an asshole, but the title really makes me wonder how you draw that connection at all. Men’s gender expectation is to be a drone at work and women’s expectation is to be a drone at home…so these movies are related?
Nightbitch was going to be a decent commentary on the difficulties of motherhood and it starts to mention some of the underlying issues…and then it collapses into incredibly simplistic drivel in the third act and undermines everything good it did up to that point. I haven’t read the book, but this really made it seem like the author got fed up and just wanted to wrap things up with the simplest thing that came to her mind.
danc4498@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This summer it up better than I did. I was mostly being sexist, though. But the way it showed her deeply I satisfied with her life as a stay at home mom, and the conclusion was to just stop doing it… It reminded me of Office Space.
To your second paragraph, I totally agreed that the third act felt rushed. But it also bothered me how 2 dimensional the husband character was. Like the only way they could convey how difficult it was to give up your career to be a stay at home mom was by making the husband the actual worst. I think this took away from the commentary.