We’ve all seen it, and most wish we didn’t have to. Public displays of affection, or PDA, is everywhere around us. Walking around campus you can find people flirting (body practice), holding hands (body practice), and kissing (body practice). Not only is it unavoidable on campus, but it is all over Facebook, too. I think it is great that two people can be in love and want to share their happiness with the world, but I don’t think it is necessary for me to witness it.
However, have we become this way simply because we want people to see our happiness, or are we docile bodies that have been argued to act like this through romantic comedies? Every girl wishes she could be like the girl in the movies that gets courted by the stunningly handsome leading man who shows up at her door with flowers and kisses her in the rain. And not only do we what to be that girl, but we want to see the girl in the movie receive that treatment, as well. We can’t wait for the main characters to finally share an onscreen kiss or engage in a steamy scene. I mean who can honestly say they want Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling to just say goodbye when it starts raining in The Notebook?
I absolutely agree with this statement. PDA has reached a level it would NEVER have reached in the past.
ReplyDeleteI was reading a study recently in which researchers compared romcoms (romantic comedies) and romance movies in the woman's brain to porn in a man's brain. The same part of the brain becomes active and these images make us do the same thing as men: wish that every other guy out there did things the same as the sexy one on screen.
Point is, no, I was not ABOUT to continue the movie if Noah and Allie just said goodbye in that rain.