Love, love is such a strong word now a day. Before it was just tossed around willy-nilly. You might have said, you were in love when you were with the first person you dated, or maybe the next person after that. However, the thought of it did you really want to be dating that person? Were you really in love? Do you even want to be in love for that matter? Or were you just playing along with the roles that society has given us today. Love isn’t for everyone, and Kipnis’ story “Against Love” and “Loves Labor” represents that perfectly.
Society is convinced that love is happiness, and eventually we all want to find love. They encourage others to go out and find someone to be with them. People want love to be with someone they can spend time …show more content…
Love is exposed in television and movies. People get their ideas of the “perfect love” from shows and movies. They project what they see into their real life, in hopes on finding that scripted love scene they saw in their life. The media tries to convince audiences that love will be magical, and everyone should experience it. With the constant reminder of love and relationship being presented, people can begin to obsess over it. Laura Kipnis, a cultural critic, explains how she supports this idea about love in her essay “Love’s Labors”. It’s shown by the media to people throughout shows and movies, and the audience takes those ideas to create more stories about their own version of their “perfect love”. One of the big factors is the stereotypical rom-com movies that have the same story line about falling in love. The sequence of meeting by accident, falling for each other, someone messes up, a big gesture to get them back, and then falling in love and living happily ever after. These movies give off a false idea of what falling in love really happens. Once people see what the media wants us to think what love is, they grasp onto the ideas in their head thinking if it happened in the movie, it could happen to me. Kipnis argues that the propaganda shown to us creates our societal norm. These social norms about love take a big role in shaping how we live our lives, “Consider
Society is convinced that love is happiness, and eventually we all want to find love. They encourage others to go out and find someone to be with them. People want love to be with someone they can spend time …show more content…
Love is exposed in television and movies. People get their ideas of the “perfect love” from shows and movies. They project what they see into their real life, in hopes on finding that scripted love scene they saw in their life. The media tries to convince audiences that love will be magical, and everyone should experience it. With the constant reminder of love and relationship being presented, people can begin to obsess over it. Laura Kipnis, a cultural critic, explains how she supports this idea about love in her essay “Love’s Labors”. It’s shown by the media to people throughout shows and movies, and the audience takes those ideas to create more stories about their own version of their “perfect love”. One of the big factors is the stereotypical rom-com movies that have the same story line about falling in love. The sequence of meeting by accident, falling for each other, someone messes up, a big gesture to get them back, and then falling in love and living happily ever after. These movies give off a false idea of what falling in love really happens. Once people see what the media wants us to think what love is, they grasp onto the ideas in their head thinking if it happened in the movie, it could happen to me. Kipnis argues that the propaganda shown to us creates our societal norm. These social norms about love take a big role in shaping how we live our lives, “Consider