Lead Blog Post

When Bae Wants More Romance in Your Relationship

copy link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEVhHtexS7w&feature=youtu.be


Hey everyone! For my lead blog post I'm going to be discussing gender norms and how they connect to humor and the theories.

To start off the scene begins with the barbie doll complaining about how the guy doll isn't dressed up for the date. The guy doll says he's fine and begins to complain about how women always want to look special for everything. Barbie doll replies with more complaining about how average their date night is going to be and the guy doll is fine with that. She continues to talk about how she is special and won't settle for anything less and that she wants more romance in their relationship. The clip continues to a couple of flashbacks where there was "romance" but instead it was the guy doll making cheesy romantic jokes to her.  She wants a love story like Romeo and Juliet but he thinks that its fantasy and not realistic. Instead he says that romance is about being together all the time and not killing each other and it's about loving each other despite the flaws. Barbie doll begins listing all of his flaws. The clip continues to her finally understanding that he is right but she won't admit it so instead she holds up a sign saying "you're right." The clip ends with them about to get along but he says another cheesy pick up line and she just sighs in defeat.

The first thing I wanted to point out in this video is this can be applied to the relief theory. This video is a way of releasing tensions through tendentious jokes on a topic like gender. This video dives into the gender norms of men and women. The video is mocking relationships in a harmless way which is the point of relief theory.  This clip is saying that women always complain about what men do, from the way that they dress to the things that they do. For example, the barbie doll was complaining about how he never dresses up for anything, especially date night. Another thing this clip is saying is that what he does in the relationship is never enough for her. For example, he tries to defend himself when she says that he does nothing romantic for her and she just fires back with more things he does wrong. Also, this clip is showing that flirting between males and females is by being funny and teasing each other. The barbie doll complains about him always being funny and teasing her and that she wants something more romantic. His way of being romantic is through cheesy pickup lines which is not enough for her.

This video wouldn't nearly be as funny without the use of the dolls and the cheesy voices. If this video was with real people using normal voices this scene wouldn't be funny and probably would come off as more aggressive. In my opinion, this video overexaggerates how women are in relationships. The video makes the idea of women come off as really needy and controlling about a relationship. This exaggeration is an important part of humor. Without exaggeration humor and comedy wouldn't be as funny. You need exaggeration to make jokes about a topic that is sensitive to other people. Without exaggeration people wouldn't understand jokes as much and might get more offended.  To summarize, this clip was an example of the relief theory and gender norms in today's society. The video used exaggeration to make the gender norms topic more humorous to the viewer.