Secondly, I am primarily referring to 'Romantic Comedies". The term "Chick Flick" covers a broad swath of potential entries (obviously women enjoy all sorts of films with diverse genre), so I am choosing my most familiar territory to use for illustrative purposes.
Lastly, it's merely a theory, and although I guarantee it applies to some percentage of the male public, I can't (without endless polling) determine if it's a significant number or not.
But remember, any number is a percentage, however small. So here goes...
Men do not like chick flicks due to the wonderful welling of emotion, the euphoric glow, that accompanies Tom Hanks & Meg Ryan (T&M) as they go a'courting.
Oh don't be mistaken, men feel it.
Oh yes they feel it equally to their female counterparts; through every fibre of their being, provoked by the filmmakers design, just like emotional clockwork. What they don't like is that it does not mirror their current romantic affiliations.
We have all heard how attraction shifts through time, from infatuation, to love, to comfort (and then for some to apathy), and many levels in between. The T&M effect reminds men of their emotional capacity to feel amazing, and makes them wonder why they don't feel that way most of the time. We think "why don't I feel the T&M euphoria with my girl?" and we get depressed and sullen, and in some cases, resentful.
Now who would want to be reminded that chocolate exists, when all that is left in your diet is asparagus?
I could go on, but now it's YOUR turn.
