Summary Of How Bridesmaids Set The New Standard For Women In Comedy '

In the article “How Bridesmaids Set the New Standard for Women in Comedy” published on the website The Artifice, the authors emphasizes how actresses in comedy are just as entertaining as men and can now make jokes that actors use to only make and women would stay away from. The article disects the film Bridesmaids and goes into detailed examples as to how actresssess in comedy are starting to break down the barrier of whats acceptable from women in film.
The first type of joke the author(s) go into are sexual jokes. Even though they say “Plenty of women are in movies where sexual jokes are made”, the writer goes on to list movies with sexual jokes dominated by actors. The writer(s) goes on to give examples validate that women can make it socially acceptable and funny when sexual jokes come from a females mouth, espically about female gentalia. The writer(s) also examines how females want to have sex just as much as males or even more, and goes into detail about a scene which is “particularly clever because it is open about women’s needs in a real way.” Bridesmaids gives a refreshing view of “sex talk” from a women’s perspective.
The media has it so they want us to think women do not poop, urinate, pass gas or have hair on their body. The writer(s) go on to list some more male dominated movies and roles that have to do with poop jokes. Bridesmaids completly disgregards that and shows how human women are. Possibly the most well known scene in the film is where the whole bridal party gets food poisoning while trying on dresses. The article goes on to say “Megan (Melissa McCarthy), has diarrhea in the sink, Rita throws up in the toilet, Becca throws up on Rita’s head, and Lillian (Maya Rudolph), the bride, defecates herself in the middle of the street as she runs for a toilet.” These actresses were able to bring the true human element as well as bring comedy with old and childish poop