Friday, 18 May 2012

Bad Boys & Good Girls: A Yin Yang Combo ??

Some days back, I stumbled upon a song named "free falling". The original version is sung by Tom Petty but the one I heard was by the great John Mayer which he sang live at a concert. In the song, he talks about how he's been a bad boy and broken a "innocent good girl's" heart. He goes on about how happy she is now, in her perfect world without him.

This got me thinking. Are girls really suckers for bad boys ?? I don't really know about the real world but the reel world sounds affirmative. The sentiment is even stronger , in the era of the Twilight Saga, Vampire Diaries and True Blood. So are they really just aching to get those fangs into their necks ?? Even in the song, John Mayer uses the vampires in the same context as bad boys, making them synonyms.

And is it just the good girls or all the girls ? The good girls and bad boys, agreed, would be like the ultimate yin yang or the north and south pole in the laws of attraction but the bad girls too ? I mean, c'mon, give the good guys something to work with. Taking an example from a cheesy Hindi dramas or movie won't really help my argument but what about the Hollywood stories ?
Most of the popular chick flicks show the bad and spoilt young brat falling for the innocent sweet girl who lives a world apart from him. A walk to remember, Cruel Intentions and She's all that to name a few. They fall in love and a couple of years later, the guy has straightened out, has a good job, a family and they live happily forever.

To make it worse, most of these flicks are inspired by best selling novels (Nicholas Sparks is a major influence FYI) and this topic never seems to get old. Those, coupled with the break up songs by Adele n Rihanna, the good guys have to find a way out or else, their only option would be to go gay !! The last book I read was named "One Day" by David Nicholls. Even that one is on similar lines (I mean Bad boys and good girls, not homosexuals)

That's about the good girls, but the bad girls too ? The heavily tattooed, gothic and rebellious girls with father issues ?? I don't thing I've ever noticed one of em with the the geeky, law abiding, good hearted boys. You'll see plenty of em with Charlie Harper (Two and a Half Men), Drake Bell (Drake & Josh) or Barney Stinson (Do I really have to tell you the name of this show ??), ofcourse taking the Big Bang Theory guys as an exception. But I can't really say how many exceptions are there or will be there.

So please give the good ol guys, the Ross & Chandlers of the world, a chance. They're nice, funny, chivalrous & most importantly, NOT GAY !!


So a frnd of mine, supposedly A "Good" Girl retaliated and wrote something to refute my thesis !! Here it is ... Have a look and tell her she's wrong


Next - Never-Ending phone calls: A necessary EVIL ??

4 comments:

  1. You couldn't have ended this in a better way. This piece is witty, cleverly written and also sad.
    Sad because it IS true in most of the cases.

    But well.. What's also true is that girls, specially the good ones, realize what's good for them with age :)

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  2. Haha !! Well said ... Thanks

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  3. Haha!
    Very interesting!
    True, our infatuation with bad boys is inspired from these very sitcoms but let's not forget-the very enviable, very successful Rachael DID end up with the very geeky, diabetic Ross and they did live happily ever after.

    So good guys-DON'T loose hope.
    The hot girl will always end up with you.

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  4. Yes !! They do end up with the good guys because they're the "Safe" Option

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