(500) Days of Summer (On Goddesses and Weenies)

Some men romanticize love....and take their frustrations about its imperfections out on the women that have the misfortune of finding themselves in a  relationship with these these men.

America's recently divorced girlfriend, Zooey Deschanel, is the eponymous Summer of (500) Days of Summer, and she is too damn cute for words: hip, stylish, and appropriately pragmatic in the ways of love and life considering that she is in her 20's, a fan of The Smiths.

Joey G-L plays Tom Hansen, the awkward emo protagonist that is too self-absorbed to see that the reason his g/f doesn't like him is because he's too self-absorbed. 

The (500) Days of Summer are the epoch in which these two know each other: from the day that they meet to the day when Tom meets his next g/f.  

Through that time, Tom pours over every little detail about the nature of their relationship, and constantly worries about how she's treating him.  Theirs is a relationship doomed to die, not because of fate or because sabotage, but for reasons all together more chumpy:

Summer is a sophisticated, grounded, beautiful, old-soul, cute chick with savvy. 

Tom is a weenie.

Weenies have no experience.  Etheral hipster goddesses do.  Weenies can't deal with that.  And the goddesses end up moving on.

Like, seriously, think about it Gordo -- did you ever think that she doesn't like you because you keep trying to force her to make a decision about liking you?  It's like when we tried to force our 3 year old son to use the can: the more we pressured him, the more he wanted to run the other way, until finally he just pissed on the floor and talked shit over us whilst we woolited it up!

Weenies need validation: Zooey Deschanel needs $2000/month for clothes.

People love (500) DOS.  I was less smitten.  I don't think Joey G-L is jives with me, every time I see him, I think of DJ Connor's friend George.  And so it weirds me out a bit to see him shtuping Zooey.

She's waaaay too good for him.