5 Chick Flicks That Are ACCIDENTALLY Conservative! ｜｜ These movies reveal CONSERVATIVE truths...
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In this episode, I talk about 5 chick flicks that have a conservative message accidentally or on purpose. A Walk to Remember, Sweet November, The Devil Next Door, The Little Mermaid, Crazy Rich Asians and more!
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Hello beautiful ladies and welcome to today's video where we're going to be talking about
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five chick flicks that are accidentally conservative.
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So I've been wanting to start a series for a while now that would talk about movies that we
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watch that accidentally or maybe on purpose have conservative messages because so much of what
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we're watching nowadays is not that. It's the exact opposite of that actually and I've also
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wanted to do a video about how what we're watching makes us feel more alone because we are seeing a
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portrayal of the world that is very very liberal and it makes us feel like are we alone here? Is
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there anyone else who thinks like me? There are definitely other people who think like you but
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the media and movies are not going to show you that. But before I do that video I thought it would
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be fun to start a series where I do different genres of movies that accidentally have conservative
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messages. That the story of the movie sort of provides an insight that shows a conservative
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truth and that's a funny thing that is probably unintentional most of the time but it's something
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that we can watch and say huh that is a message that I wasn't actually expecting and probably
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they didn't realize how conservative it was in the moment. Now do directors and does Hollywood try
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and put in conservative messages into their movies? No. Very very rarely does that happen. It does happen
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sometimes but it's very very rare. But there are times where a story, a romance, can sort of have a
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conservative message without them even meaning it. So I thought it would be fun to go through five
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chick flicks that have a conservative message accidentally. So let's get into it. The first movie
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I want to talk about is A Walk to Remember. So you probably have seen this movie. It was all the rage in
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the early 2000s and it is a great movie. I really love it. I also think that this one may have
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actually been on purpose the conservative message because it is telling the story of a religious girl in a
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positive light. It is a beautiful movie. I will say that I will probably have spoilers throughout this video so if you
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don't want to hear those I don't know if I would watch this. But in A Walk to Remember the idea is that there is a
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religious girl who's kind of an outcast. She isn't popular. She doesn't really fit in. And then there's
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the cool guy who fits in but is kind of a scoundrel, not a good guy. And the two of them meet. He's been told
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he has to be in the school play to make up for the bad things that he's done. And they end up of course
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falling in love even though she tells him at the beginning not to. Now here's the spoiler. The spoiler
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is that she has leukemia and so she didn't want him to fall in love with her because she didn't want to break
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his heart when he found out that she was dying of cancer. And it is very very moving. The reason
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this movie has a conservative message is because this movie is what I would call the opposite of
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Greece. In Greece the good girl turns bad for the bad guy. In A Walk to Remember the bad guy turns good
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for the good girl. And I love this movie because it does have a conservative message that people can be
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redeemed. People can be better and that the two of them are going to be better together. And then when
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they do get married at the end I found that so romantic. That they value marriage even in the
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short term. That even in the short term you don't leave it behind. And so this movie I think actually
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meant to have a conservative message. It is one of my favorites. I think they do an incredible job
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of telling this story. Of having the main character who is religious be sympathetic. That very rarely
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happens in films. So I really enjoyed that aspect of it. And of course like I said they make each other
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better. And it does end in marriage. Another good comparison for this movie is something called
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Sweet November which is with Charlize Theron and Keanu Reeves. And it's in a way very similar because
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she is a character who meets this bad guy. She's kind of a kooky out there kind of fun hippie woman.
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And she meets him and she says I just want to spend November with you. We're going to spend all of
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November together. And he doesn't know why it has to end. And it's because she also is dying of cancer.
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And so in that movie, that version of things, she kind of flits from man to man because she's dying
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and that's what she's chosen to do. Whereas in a Walk to Remember, her cancer isn't an excuse for her to go
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around acting however she wants. She's still very godly even in the face of a horrible, horrible struggle.
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Whereas in Sweet November, she kind of leaves men behind constantly just pursuing this initial flutter of
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love over and over with new people. And of course, we can't sit in judgment on somebody who's going through
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something like that. Not at all. But just in comparison within these two movies, it's interesting
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and a conservative message to see that even when someone is going through a terrible time and terrible
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hardship, she's still godly. She does improve someone else's life and she does end up married at the end.
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So that is the first entry in our accidentally conservative chick flicks. Next up, let's talk about
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two films. I'm kind of bundling them into one because they came out the same year and they were the same
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exact concept. So it was Friends with Benefits and No Strings Attached. Neither one of these movies
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do I recommend. Neither one of these movies should you watch. I do not think that they are very good
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movies, but they do accidentally have a good message, which is if you are going to engage in sex with
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someone, you will have feelings for them. You can't divide sex and relationship. It's not a good idea.
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Friends with Benefits doesn't work. No Strings Attached doesn't work either.
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And so it is funny because in both of those movies, they try to hook up just without any feelings and
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then of course they end up together. It's a romantic comedy. But the fact of the matter is, in real life,
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that is also the case. If you start hooking up with someone, you will have feelings for them.
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And this whole feminist empowerment idea that you can have sex with whoever you want no matter when
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you want and you won't catch feelings and it'll be fun for you and it's just good for you to embrace
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your sexuality. That doesn't really happen. Friends with Benefits is never a good idea.
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One person or the other is going to have more feelings than the other. That's not a friendship
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that can usually survive. Once you add sex to a friendship, it's no longer a friendship. There's
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a whole other layer of confusion there. And it should not be taken lightly at all. And these two movies
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accidentally are proponents for, yeah, if you're going to have sex with someone, you can't just
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have sex with them. You can't have sex with someone with no strings attached. It just doesn't exist.
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Sex is something that is very emotional. It's not just physical. We shouldn't treat it as physical
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for a million reasons. We've talked about many of them on my channel. But in this case, it doesn't
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actually exist without one or both of you wanting more. So even though these movies are not things I
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would recommend, they accidentally have a very conservative message. Using female empowerment
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as an excuse to have sex with whoever you want is not actually going to go that well for you. Just
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because sex and emotions go hand in hand, sex does not exist in a vacuum. And I think that is the point
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here. Number three is Miss Congeniality. I love this movie. I think I watched this movie a hundred times
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growing up. I loved this movie. I loved the home makeover. I liked that she was a cop and she was
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undercover and that also she was going to be in a pageant. That was so much fun. But the
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accidentally conservative message in this movie is that once Sandra Bullock's character embraces
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her femininity, she's so much happier. She starts making friends. She starts realizing how feminine
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she is. She attracts the guy that she's going to end up with. And she before that was living alone,
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was not taking care of herself as a woman, was really only engaging with that tomboyish side of
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herself. Which, by the way, she maintains throughout the film and I think is very important. If that's
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your personality, of course, still be a tomboy. Still engage with that. But once she starts really
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embracing her femininity throughout the movie, talking to other women, embracing her beauty,
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embracing her femininity throughout the film, you can see her character grow. She goes from somebody
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who was alone and is lonely and doesn't take care of herself to a woman who has made all of these
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friends. Who is the most friendly woman there? She's Miss Congeniality. And who also has maintained
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her identity through it. And I think that's a really good lesson that you can be a strong woman
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and still be feminine. You can be an empowered woman, in our sense of the word, right? In conservative
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women's sense of the word, where you're strong and independent. You can be that and also be feminine.
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And if you lack the feminine side of things, you're not really taking care of yourself. And I loved that
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message in this movie. Do I think that they knew that that was a conservative message, that it's
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important to engage and embrace your femininity? Not really. And so that's why it's so funny to watch
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these movies and say, huh, I think that this is a message that they maybe weren't actually intending.
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But that's one of my favorite movies. It's a super fun rom-com and I love it. The fourth movie on this list
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I love this movie. This is a great movie. Jennifer Garner is so good in this movie and she has really
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good chemistry with Mark Ruffalo. And the reason this movie is accidentally conservative is that
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the main character realizes that her pursuit of fame and fashion and glory all come secondary to
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love and marriage and being with the person that you love and growing a family. And I loved the idea
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that in the movie when she thinks that she's 30, flirty, and thriving and she is 13 and she sees
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what she would be like in the future, it is her with this boyfriend that she doesn't really like
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and she's very much involved in the fashion industry but she's willing to sell anyone down the river for
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it. And her 13 year old self looks at her 30 year old self and says, this isn't what I want.
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I would rather be honest and a good person and live with the man that I love than have this dream
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scenario of having this really high-powered job but I'm betraying people all over the place and I
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don't have anyone that really cares about me. And that is a pretty conservative message that she
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ends up in the really cute house with the really great guy than the high-rise apartment where she's
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alone and she is willing to betray the company she works for. And the image of them at the end
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moving into their house and falling down on the couch outside as they're unpacking and moving,
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it's just a very homey looking scene as compared to the beginning of the movie where she's in this
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very fancy job but she doesn't really have the things that make life meaningful and important.
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And I like that contrast and it is a very conservative idea that she has chosen the value
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and meaning of being with the man she loves, starting a family, being in a community,
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over the high-powered position that she always thought she wanted. And it's not that she doesn't
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have a job because we don't know what her job looks like. She may have a high-powered position
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because I'm not against that. But clearly what's most important to her is her family life. And that's
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why I always say that having a job and having a career is great. Doing something you love and you're
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passionate about, absolutely do it. It's important. But always having your priorities in order of,
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this is really important and I'm really passionate about it and I'm gonna earn and I'm gonna do
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something I care about, but I also have a family and faith and a community and a husband that I want
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to love and cherish. Having those things in both hands is going to give you a life with meaning.
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And the last movie I want to talk about today is While You Were Sleeping. Huh. How many of these movies
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have Sandra Bullock? She also was in The Blind Side, which is also very conservative. And that
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one is just kind of like out and out conservative. So that's kind of funny. Interesting. But While You
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Were Sleeping is a wonderful movie. I love that movie. Bill Pullman is in it. And the movie begins
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with her being a lonely woman. She doesn't have any friends. She doesn't have any family. She works
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every holiday because she doesn't have family to spend it with. And she ends up falling in love
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with this man. But before she falls in love with him, she falls in love with his family because it's
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just so warm and inviting. And that's an insight into a conservative truth, which is that family is
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so important. Communities are so important. Living alone is not going to give you joy or give you
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happiness or give you meaning. And having people around you that take care of you and that you can
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take care of. That's the stuff that life is made of. And so when she realizes that this family is
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what she fell in love with. It's a funny scene at the end of the movie that I'm giggling at. It's very
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emotional and also accidentally conservative. The fact is that she is embracing family, saying,
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I want this. I want a family. I want a community. I want a husband. And I don't want to be alone
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anymore. And of course, at the beginning of the movie, it is slightly different in the sense that
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she's not choosing a very high-powered position over family or anything like that. But what it is
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is that she has learned the value of family and has remembered why it's so important. And now we can
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see that in the future for her character, she'll probably be very, very close with her family and be
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very involved in her community and have a family of her own because she knows how important it is.
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And how much meaning it will bring her own life. So I really love this movie. It is so much fun to
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watch. Totally recommend it. And it's great for the holiday season. If this is something that you
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haven't seen before, go out, rent it. What am I talking about? We don't have places to rent it.
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Blockbuster? No. Go on Netflix, stream it. I don't know. I feel like I just really dated myself by saying
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that. And it is just a beautiful, beautiful movie. A lot of holiday movies tend to have conservative
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messages maybe without even meaning to. And this is definitely one of them. But that's it for my
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list today of chick flicks that have an accidentally conservative message. Let me know in the comments
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what are your favorite chick flicks that maybe have a similar kind of vibe that you like watching
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because it doesn't feel like, oh, I would never do that thing that this main character is doing. But
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instead it's more, oh, this is a character I can really relate to. I'd love to hear your guys' thoughts.
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