![]() Presumably, the pulling power of the alpha male reflects latent genetic advantage, however unwittingly this may be perceived. Why? If women really need loyal providers, shouldn't the film's bridesmaids be fighting over the groom's worthy but unlovely chums, rather than his baneful if bewitching brother? ![]() In Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, as in real life, girls fly to the hunky heartbreaker like moths to a flame. Meanwhile, Waters and his peers are leaving unfought another possible battle against biology in which they might have rather more chance of success. It may threaten them as much as it likes with guilt and emotional privation yet, pitted against primal urges, such trifles seem unlikely to prevail. Nonetheless, the rom-com genre faces an uphill task in its mission to reform young studs. The scene in which all of the "lady-tears" that the central protagonist has provoked rain down upon his head is a triumph of messianic zeal. Waters makes his movie a slick, glossy and blatantly evangelist tract. If indoctrination is indeed part of their point, films like Ghosts of Girlfriends Past appear to be playing a blinder, at least at first sight. The opportunity to subject potential mates to a bit of supportive big-screen propaganda is thus not to be missed. It therefore falls to them to try and transform born skirt-chasers into faithful dads. Females, however, require an exclusive provider to sustain them during motherhood. The human male is programmed to spread his sperm as widely as possible, to maximise genetic variation at no cost to himself. Surely, women shouldn't still be preoccupied with the hunting down of Mr Right? Nowadays, we look to evolutionary psychology for the solution to such puzzles. Tooled up with Kleenex, they steer their partners to the box office. Why do we keep being subjected to this parable? Few male cinemagoers relish the prospect of an evening in front of a rom-com. Slow learners end up engulfed by loneliness and regret, like McConaughey's character's rakish uncle. Dumb dudes have to be educated into appreciating that the only route to fulfilment lies in exclusive commitment to The One. These require that sowing wild oats must be presented as a tiresome masculine failing.
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