1. I too am puzzled by You-Got-Mail-gate because @meaganmday's reading of the film strikes me as the common sense one. In fact I remember making similar arguments nearly 20 years ago!https://twitter.com/DavidKlion/status/1319361687120695296 …
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4. The deeper roots of a film like You Got Mail are in the traditional binary in fiction between the man as unregulated activity (whether sexual or economic) and woman as the domesticating force, using emotion to temper grasping appetite.
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5. It's weird that my economic reading of romantic comedies ran -- without controversy -- in a very conservative newspaper (the National Post) while a similar argument appearing in a socialist magazine gets people upset.
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