what a fairy tale.

[random tangent time.] so i watched peter pan last night. not the cartoon, but the one that came out last year sometime with the real people. you know. either way, the gist of the story is the same. this fairy tale proved at least three of my personal philosophies:

1. most girls are catty bitches. look at tinkerbell. all wendy wanted to do was chill out with peter for a little while. she's 12, but she thinks she loves him. whatever, her choice. tinkerbell over there, however, is all about love for peter as well. so how does tinkerbell solve this inner dilemma? well, first she ruins peter and wendy's first kiss by pulling them apart [and in the movie she does this by slamming wendy's head against a bedpost, by the way.]. then, in neverland, she tells the lost boys that peter wants them to shoot her down while she's flying through the air! "shoot the wendy bird"!? bitch. tinkerbell's love for peter, although apparent, is unaffective. she needs to just sit in her corner and cry for her unrequited love. instead, being the girl she is, flips out and does most anything in her power to screw wendy, choosing to kill her rather than accept the situation and find a new man.

2. girls prefer the company of boys to fellow girls. the lost boys? c'mon. wendy wants nothing to do with that silly nymph tinkerbell. wisely, she chooses the company of the boys. granted, she's like their mother and reads them stories, but what girls don't act like mothers sometimes around their irresponsible guy friends?

3. girls are more attracted to the cocky assholes most of the time. although wendy is proper and considered an english "lady," instead of going for a gentleman, she runs away to be with peter. peter over there thinks everything is about him. he doesn't care what is best for wendy, he just knows she should be with him. "come to neverland. screw your family." one of the first conversations they have is when wendy decides to sew peter's shadow back on for him. peter responds with "oh the cleverness of me." what?! okay. peter's arrogance almost kills him in a fight with captain hook as well. thinking you're that much better than someone else is not a smart sword fighting technique. finally, wendy tells him about love, and he tells her the sound of it offends him. playing harder to get, wendy still follows him around, wanting to spend the few moments she has in neverland with this kid. [sigh.]

4. females are smarter. let's face it, in the end, wendy understands that they need to go home and grow up. the boys yell and shout and don't agree. she has to coax the boys, since she can't rely on any of them. as often as the boys argue, they agree with her in the end and go home to grow up and be with their family.

there's something to this peter pan tale i think.