Anthea McTeirnanon a flick chicks should skip
'Men don't like girls who are too smart." Dead right they don't, House Bunny. Hollywood's latest strike in the war on women is a chick flick so thick it will probably have Pammy Anderson beating a path to Gloria Steinem's door, begging to be deconstructed.
The House Bunnyis a tits-and-teeth extravaganza featuring a Playboy bunny, played by Anna Faris, who moves into a college sorority house full of frumpy, dykey, unpopular girls to teach them how to improve themselves with a more liberal use of their, well, tits and teeth.
It's a classy move, Tinseltown - using a damaged sex worker heroine to attack women in one of the few places they have a measurable edge over men: college campuses. Your fundamental(ist) message . . . yawn . . . is that failure to attract male attention is just that - failure.
And what a doggone wonderful life sex workers in Hollywood movies have. When they're not hanging out in thigh-length boots on Sunset Boulevard waiting to be picked up by a handsome millionaire ( Pretty Woman), they are being given a loving home in a mansion by Hugh Hefner ( The House Bunny).
Forget education, girls. There's an economic slump a-coming. Watch The House Bunnyand think about the long term. What will be more useful to you, a year's third-level fees or a boob job? If Batt O'Keeffe has his way, it's a decision you'll all have to face sooner rather than later.
And, as Senator Ted Kennedy reiterated recently, economic recession has a "disproportionate impact" on women. So it's every girl for herself now - and who better to help you maximise your feminine assets than a Playboy pin-up?
Because, however many bras we pile up and burn outside cinemas showing this detestable film, the pitiful thing is that House BunnyShelley Darlingson seems to have a point: "Men don't like girls who are too smart."
At least some male voters don't. How else did Sarah Palin convince 36 per cent of those polled by CNN that she had licked Joe Biden in their televised head- to-head debate last week? Have you paid Palin a visit, House Bunny, or were the f**k-me shoes and pitbull-coloured lip gloss all her own work?
Welcome to the smirking, winking, stiletto-wearing world of Sarah Palin. Yeah, we all know it's hard for woman in politics - just ask Hilary Clinton - but that's no excuse for playing to the Neanderthal gallery.
You can be smart, Sarah. It's not an offence. It does not give offence. You can ignore all the VPILF sites on the internet (just Google it) and stick two moosey fingers up to the jokers who are "Pullin' for Palin".
It's time to stop the George W simpleton speak and the shouting to third-graders in Wasilla. You are supposed to be convincing your compatriots that, if your 72-year-old running mate keels over, you can govern the most powerful nation in the world.
Ignore your inner House Bunny, Sarah. Last time I looked, "smart" was a good thing in politics. In actual government it's a prerequisite.
