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Acceptable Targets: Every single mildly attractive young woman not related to the "protagonists" is seen as an evil, stupid whore who deserves to be stepped on, abused, mistreated, etc.
Unfortunate Implications: There isn't a single young and pretty woman in this movie who isn't portrayed as a gold-digging, airheaded tramp, fully deserving of the verbal abuse that is constantly hurled at them, which is of course, played for laughs and/or seen as perfectly acceptable. About the only younger woman given any intelligence is Annie's therapist, and even then, she's still a rotten person--extremely unethical and manipulative: she's been having an affair with the husband of her patient while all the time having considerable sway over Annie. (Curious that Annie never took revenge on her therapist, considering all she would have to do is report her and subsequently ruin her career). One almost gets the impression that the movie was written by bitchy, vindictive and many not too pretty middle-aged women with bones to pick with "the pretty and bitchy girls from school"
Additionally, the four men are made to be the villains in the divorce proceedings, even though NONE of them are pulling the stunts that the wives are. While the dudes are HARDLY pleasant, the film may been seen as approaching Lifetime Movie of the Week-levels of "women as victims / heroines and men as villains."
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