The "Lovable" Lie

It seems as if the big joke about romantic movies involving African American women, is the gender stereotypes that are never challenged in really any of the films. African American women fall into their predictable roles on screen as sex objects, castrating bitches, or Jezebels. Men, tend to fall into their own respective categories that compliment those female archetypes as well.

In addition to having very little redemptive aspects for the women in these films, there is also something of a formula that produces the "ideal" happy ending. This typically involves a woman looking for a man to settle down with by the film's ending. If a woman does not find a man by the film's ending, she seems to be portrayed as this hopeless whore doomed to be single, but promiscuous for the rest of her life, while the woman who has "succumbed" to a man is awarded with a house and family that she implicitly must maintain.