Has anyone heard of this movie, "Magic Mike"? I have seen several FB friends talk about going to see this for Girls Nite Out. The movie is about male strippers. I was truly surprised at the number of women(married and single) I know who have plans to see it with their friends,most of whom are "good Christian ladies". Dh flat out forbid me to see it, (he's not one to "forbid" me anything) and I told him there is no way on God's green earth I would ever see something like that. What bugs me is that if it were a movie about female strippers, how many wives would appreciate their husbands going to see it? The whole idea of this movie just bugs me. I consider it appallingly disrepectful to husbands for wives to see it, and completely innappropriate for ladies in general and just trashy. I would embarrassed to see it! Does this make me a judgemental,stuffy prude if I say something? Or am I making too big a deal out of it?
I agree with you 100%! My husband, on the other hand, tried to encourage me to get some girls together to see it. ha! Um.. no thanks. I'm going to keep my lustful thoughts for the man I vowed to lust after.
Never heard of it, but there's no way I'd watch trash like that, and I'd question my choice in friends if my friends wanted to see it.
I certainly don't. I joked with a mutual friend on FB about seeing it as a mom's night out, but hopefully people knew that was a joke as she had mentioned joking with her husband to see if he would take her. LOL When we went to see Brave today, there were TONS of women there...all buying tickets to see Magic Mike. I was surprised at how many older women were there. I can't really imagine a movie about male strippers being about anything other than watching an hour and a half strip show for the cost of matinee ticket. I'll confess I don't even know what the plot of the movie's supposed to be. In the movie's defense, I *am* a prude, so I wouldn't like it no matter what; but I do think there are extremes where prudes and moderates can agree that some stuff is just over the line. Sometimes I think I've gotten a bit extreme in not watching some things because I pretty much only watch kid programming. I rarely catch movies geared towards adults anymore, so I think I've become uber sensitive to seeing skin or hearing coarse language and such. Still, I think I'd have steered clear of this one even before I became 'mommified.'
LOL, Shelley, I first read "mummified"! Doh! Secondly, I am smacking myself right now for not issuing a disclaimer that this was not in reference to the aforementioned mutual friends comment! I knew that was a joke! But I am seriously disturbed by the constant flow of comments I'm hearing from women that just cannot wait to see this movie. It sold out in my town and women are on FB asking if anyone has spare tickets to sell so more of their friends can go. It's like a sold-out concert, they are scalping tickets to this!! Don't get me wrong, I don't think there is a breathing female that wouldn't agree that Channing Tatum is just a cutie-patootie, but seriously!
No, you are not a prude. You have good taste. I wouldn't say anything about it to others though unless they ask why I didn't see it.
Wow. Just. Wow. I am continually amazed at how desensitized we are becoming as a culture and a church. "This is pure and undefiled religion in the sight of our God and Father, to visit orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world." I'd say this falls under "stain".
I have heard of the movie but had no idea what it was about until I read this thread. I would never go see something like that because it is completely inappropriate for any woman to see especially if you are married.
I, honestly, don't get it. It doesn't "arouse" me into saving money for the grossly over priced ticket, sitting in a musty theater, and leaving my three kids with my 60 year old mother. Having said that, I don't care what other people do. If they bust their butts to see it then more power to them. I have children that need new shoes, clothes, one has a birthday next week and we can't afford presents (my parents bought him a bike he wanted), therapies, and gas for our truck. I just think that we have better things to do with our money than waste it on that. That's all aside from the religious side of things. This may be TMI...but...I don't need to go to a theater to see a man strip. All I have to do is look across the couch and snap my fingers. LOL!!
We took our kids to see Brave this afternoon and when we came out there were so many women in line (over 1/2 hour early) to get into the theater showing "Magic Mike" that I could hardly get to the restroom. I was thinking exactly what the OP said, "these women need to go home to their own husbands." And then, I came around the corner and saw lots of women that I know waiting in that line!:shock: DH had taken the kids to the car while I went to the restroom and I mentioned it to him when I got in. He said he didn't have a problem with it and I should go if I wanted to. What? I said that if the tables were turned and it was a movie about a female stripper, I would have a huge problem with him going to see it. His reply, "Well, I'm very secure in myself, so I wouldn't worry about you seeing it." It's bugged me all night to think about it. Glad I'm not the only one who isn't going to be seeing this movie.
I just turned 23 and though Channing Tatum is ADORABLE, I'll pass. I'm sure to some women it seems like a great idea. If you are a prude then honey I am too. I just have no intrest in watching a man other than mine
I haven't posted in forever, but if not seeing this movie makes me a prude, than a proud prude I am! The thought of this movie disgusts me. I count it along the same lines as Fifty Shades of Grey the book touted as 'mommy porn'. I keep hearing or seeing 'Christian' women going to see this movie or read this book and I just cringe. If things were reversed and it was a movie about female strippers and men were going to see it on boys nights out women would be livid, but it's not and there seems to be this double standard when it comes to ladies and porn or anything immodest. When men do it they are pigs and sinning, but when women partake they are just having fun. What is the difference? Immoral activity and impure thoughts are the same for women as they are for men. Lust is lust no matter who is doing it and I think it's wrong either way in God's eyes. I've found these women that love these kind of movies and these kind if books are also the kind that live for girls nights and would much rather hang with friends than have a date night with their husbands. I know for me personally with homeschooling and having no family to watch the kids anytime I can steal away with my hubby means a great deal....way more than going to see some gross movie with half naked bad actors in it! Sorry for the rant I'm just getting very agitated lately at how many many women are behaving. Oh and I am actually one female that does NOT find Channing Tatum attractive at all....I'm more of a Robert Downey Jr gal myself *PRUDES UNITE!*
okay so volume don't work on my desktop and I am too cheap for speakers. I just saw the preview and it's about a stripper who wants a normal relationship? Sounds like the male version of past female version with Demi Moore. I think there was another one with the Saved By the Bell actress. Guess I am not too much of a prude because if it comes around here and my oldest out climbing the hills on the island I may go see it with a few wives around here. Half the men are deployed here so it can be our steamy novel in film. It cannot be no worse than Snow White and the Huntsman. Just recently I watched Dolly Parton's Best Little Whorehouse In Texas and that was rated R and I thought it was funny. I am sure though old time R is not the same as today's R just like old time PG-13 isn't like today's PG-13. Plus it only cost me $3 for a movie.
I'm not going to see it either. I too have been surprised at the number of my Christian female friends who have said they couldn't wait to see it. I guess I am a bit prudish, but for one thing, I would be mortified if later in life I had to admit to my 2 daughters that I'd seen such a movie. Besides, sure the guys might be nice to look at, but I'm not the type to typically look. Too much exposed skin. I tend to avert my eyes from even bare male chests. I think my body is just for my husband and his is just for me. We don't need to look at anyone else's.
You are not a prude. Like you, I find it quite astonishing how easily we are pulled along by the media. Just a couple of decades ago, most people would feel very awkward viewing movies of this type. Nowadays, it appears to be the norm. IMO, it's important that we take a stand sometimes, without necessarily making it a big public deal. Several years ago, the company for which I worked held an annual customer event and would invite an important guest speaker. One year, they invited a senior executive from Playboy. While everyone else applauded her to the stage, I quietly walked out. Maybe two or three people noticed, that's all, so I didn't cause too many waves. Still, I just didn't feel right sitting in the audience.
I don't think you're a prude... or if you are then so am I and frankly I'm ok with that. I have no interest in a movie like that. As others have said I wouldn't want my husband watching a movie like that with females in the lead.
If you are a prude, don't feel alone! I have been married for almost 25 years, so that may color my perspective, but that kind of movie is one I would never go see. If it came up in conversation, I might just quietly say something along the lines of, "I don't feel that is appropriate viewing for me or my family" and let it go at that. However, I would be saying some prayers for their discernment and judgment.
We don't have cable or dish or anything so I don't know anything about the movie or who the actor is.... But, I just wanted to unite with the prudes. Everyone knows porn is a problem for men in our society and in our churches. Women aren't immune to it either. And maybe a mainstream movie isn't porn but you know how they call pot the 'gateway' drug to hard drugs? I think movies like this and those cheesy romance novels with milky white breast and quivering thighs are gateway media to porn and then extramarital activities.
I would go so far as to say that those cheesy romance novels ARE porn. I guess I don't know what actually qualifies, but I think of them that way. I've known too many women who've read about the gentle-but-strong farm hand (or whatever) and have thrown their marriage away comparing their husband to the fictional Mr. Right.
Sadly, I'm not terribly surprised at how many women are falling all over themselves for this movie. It follows right behind the Twilight phenomenon, then 50 Shades of Grey, and now this. I'm embarrassed at the way women are a falling all over themselves over these books/movies and lusting after these men. At least in 50 Shades of Grey and Magic Mike, the men are not teen boys as they are in Twilight. (I say that tongue in cheek; I don't really believe that it makes it any "better").
