February 19, 2013

  • Saying No to Jennifer Lawrence?

    It was a lazy day, spent at Wal-mart in my hometown because that's where the magic happens (or not). I was browsing the book on which "The Silver Linings Playbook" movie is based. In the book, a woman(played by Jennifer Lawrence aka KATNISS in the Hunger Games movie) is wracked with guilt after her husband dies, that she failed to fulfill his sexual desires. She goes through a period of nymphomania, sleeping with as many men as she can, perhaps feeling that doing so assuages her guilt.
    The men who sleep with Jennifer Lawrence may not be aware of her motivations and disorder. Unfortunately, given human ego, I'm sure many of them would just assume "Hey, I'm that awesome, that's why she wants to have sex with me after three minutes of conversation!" One does not ask too many questions when a woman like this is interested in you, correct?

    But, in the end, Pat (the male protagonist) ends up not sleeping with her, partly because he is still obsessed with his ex-wife. It helps shake her out of her nymphomania, and the two end up together in the end. Pat didn't mean to do the heroic thing, but he did. Why am I bringing this up? I'm not sure, but bear with me.
    Sometimes, we are offered our fantasies for free. But it's because something went wrong with someone else. Maybe your aging uncle has an unfair vendetta against his own children, and thus puts you in the will instead. Or she came out of an awful relationship, and is rebounding so desperately that she throws herself at you just because you show her a little kindness. In that situation, it's so, so hard to open your mouth and ask the awkward question. To say "Slow down, maybe we should talk." Come on, it's Katniss we are talking about here! HOW CAN YOU SAY NO TO KATNISS?!?!?! No one will blame you! And what if Katniss is indeed that much in love with you, and your question offends her? Love is a fragile thing! No, no, close your mouth and open...but I digress.
    It takes vast amounts of moral courage to say no to Katniss, to say no to $, to say no to an undeserved promotion or sexual experience. But I ask myself (and you), can you summon that moral courage?

Comments (15)

  • I like this :) its harder and harder to say no to things we don't deserve, partly because, well, who wouldn't want that pile of money, promotion, or hot body, but also partly because in this age of entitlement, do we really realize that we maybe ~don't~ deserve them?  oh, and i have to disagree about love being fragile :)

  • Things are definitely much more rewarding with a little fight or self-restraint involved.

  • It depends on how much I've been drinking.  When sober, I tend to over think things so rash decisions are things I don't really get behind. 

  • oh no... i haven't seen the movie yet....

  • If we do things or not do things simply based on our own moral law...one day we will reason ourselves to the point of breaking that law or if we are clever we will change our moral law so we wont have to break anything....the issue with this is that there are billions of people on this earth...so many moral laws going around....Now....if we submit ourselves to divine law even in areas we dont understand or like....and we do this out of love for the one who saved us...that is devotion....and our obedience and act of worship....on our own without His love and Grace...it is impossible to follow divine law....also obedience is not a shortcut to faith....obeying divine law will not give us faith or save us....obedience is a response. Yes that girl is beautiful but her heart is broken...will i put her first? Or is her beauty is so much it can change my moral law?...to deny myself my own selfish desires and put her first based on my moral is one thing...now to do this based on divine law is to love her the way wehave been loved. -stephen

  • I saw that movie.

  • Eh, I could say no to Jennifer Lawrence. She doesn't do it for me. I don't think I could say no to Natalie Portman, though. Perhaps they should have cast her, instead. :P

  • No one. Not on purpose anyway.

    If they have a hidden agenda ... maybe,

  • I have no problem saying no to things I don't think I deserve, my problem is that I'm not sure what I do deserve and so have accepted things in the past that weren't good for me. To be honest I have had a really hot guy come to me but I knew it was just because he was lonely and didn't actually care for me so I didn't do anything. It was really hard though, but in the end I think you would get hurt more accepting something in the moment that you don't deserve.. Though Jennifer Lawerence is soo hot haha

  • That movie was amazing. I get what you are saying here...but mental health issues can be a lot more complicated then just normal moral evaluations.
    I totally thought this was gonna be a celebrity sighting post...i was gonna go to walmart more often. Hah

  • I think this is what that college kid was writing about when he got yelled at for saying women should be and should insist upon being treated like princesses.  Treat other people like they're too valuable to throw away, even if they are the ones treating themselves as disposable.

  • There is absolutely no situation whatsoever in which I would say no to Jennifer Lawrence. 

  • I am so telling Jennifer Lawrence to never get drunk in Mississippi, @Ampersands_Anonymous - :p

  • Jennifer Lawrence! any woman who looks like her if she became a nympho would likely be ... lets just say very popular very fast. A guy who says no to her is a very rare guy, assuming he is not gay

  • @GreekPhysique - YOU MONSTER

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