Philosophy of Capitalistic Love System

From My Last Five Girlfriends which I just watched on Netflix. Another classic film to keep a person single. It’s just amazing that anyone, anywhere can make it work. We all want different things, like different things, understand words and perceive our very realities as differently as possible.

This film fits in the 500 Days of Summer category in that it’s about guys over-thinking it, trying to make sense of the chaos that is the female psyche, imposing male ego and logical structure upon feminine desires and whims. Even that sentence itself is riddled with bitter sexism and utter ignorance at the mystery of the female.

iezebel:

For Women Who Are Difficult to Love - written and performed by Warsan Shire

You are a horse running alone
and he tries to tame you
compares you to an impossible highway
to a burning house
says you are blinding him
that he could never leave you
forget you
want anything but you
you dizzy him, you are unbearable
every woman before or after you
is doused in your name
you fill his mouth
his teeth ache with memory of taste
his body just a long shadow seeking yours
but you are always too intense
frightening in the way you want him
unashamed and sacrificial
he tells you that no man can live up to the one who
lives in your head
and you tried to change didn’t you?

closed your mouth more
tried to be softer
prettier
less volatile, less awake
but even when sleeping you could feel
him travelling away from you in his dreams
so what did you want to do love
split his head open?
you can’t make homes out of human beings
someone should have already told you that
and if he wants to leave
then let him leave
you are terrifying
and strange and beautiful
something not everyone knows how to love.

Christina Perri - Arms

I hope that you see right through my walls
I hope that you catch me, ‘cause I’m already falling
I’ll never let a love get so close
You put your arms around me and I’m home

I tried my best to never let you in to see the truth
And I’ve never opened up
I’ve never truly loved ‘Till you put your arms around me
And I believe that it’s easier for you to let me go