Frat Boys
Frat Boy (Noun) Usually large husky male human between the ages of 18 and believe it or
not 30 who attend college primarily to keep blood alcohol content high enough that a normal
person could get drunk of his breath. Usually found wearing Abercrombie and Fitch and poca shells while getting drunk and acting like an ass. May use roofies to rape women, and finds destroying the property of others an enjoyable past time.Parker Posey, out promoting her horrible television show and nearing irrelevancy, has decided to lash out at Hollywood's newest wunderkind, Judd Apatow, branding his style of humor sexist:
She says, "There's so much frat boy humor out there now. This whole Judd Apatow craze - I don't like it. It excludes girls, and it doesn't do anything particularly great for our culture. Getting wasted, throwing up, ignoring your girlfriend, who gets that? I consider myself funny, and I don't (get it)." (Source)I see her point and all, but I wonder if she's even bothered to watch the Apatow comedies beyond what she sees in the trailers? I don't want to debate the existence of sexism (or lack thereof) in Apatow's comedies, but terming it "frat boy humor" is just simple ignorance. Frat boys are good ole boys, soon-to-be-beer gutted neanderthal douchebags whose idea of a great night is date rape and a kegger.
And you think, Parker, that Seth Rogen, Jonah Hill, Michael Cera, Christopher Mintz-Plasse (McLovin), and Martin Starr are representative of frat boys? Give me a fucking break! Loser humor, geek humor, or maybe even stoner humor, but frat boys? The boys in these movies don't ignore their girlfriends -- they don't have girlfriends, and when they manage them, they thank their lucky goddamn stars that a woman would even pay attention to him.
Sexist? Debatable. Frat Boys -- Pshaw.
It excludes girls? Zwhaaaaah?!?
I guess she's never seen Freaks and Geeks. Or Undeclared. Or Forty Year-Old Virgin. Or...ah, forget it.
I just love people who talk like experts about stuff they know nothing about.
Uh, you're blasting Parker Posey for her comments about Apatow, but here you are writing that Frat guys are dumb drunks who break shit and rape women?!?
The writing on this website has been pathetic since day one, but I think you reached a new low by calling guys rapists just because they're in a fraternity.
I beleive the term 'frat boy' refers to a certain subsection of boys in frats, therefore they aren't calling "guys rapists just because they're in a fraternity".
Oh,Yeah,They are cool. I saw one of them have a profile on the celebrities and millionaires dating site seekamillionaire.com last week. It's said he is interested in dating wealthy young girls on that site!
Katherine Heigl herself said she felt that Knocked Up was really sexist and the women in it were portrayed as complainy and un-fun. Sure, she had some fun times filming it, but you can't deny that that movie was no friend to girls...even if it was funny as hell.
Oh Parker Posey you are my hero! As much as I "kinda like" the Apatow guys their films just sort of leave me cold. Would love to get them into a room with Tina Fey and Joss Whedon and they could teach them how to write characters of BOTH sexes as complex people. And I agree with godseriously... the writing on this site is pathetic. I just can't believe this is the sister site of Pajiba.
"It excludes girls, and it doesn't do anything particularly great for our culture. Getting wasted, throwing up, ignoring your girlfriend, who gets that?"
Isn't that what Parker did in Party Girl but to guys? And I looove that movie. But I'm just sayin'.
I'm in college and I know a lot of "frat boys," and Apatow's characters are pretty dead on. Even if that weren't the case, I simply don't understand how you can express such loathing for frat boys based on your (rather off-base) definition, but defend the hooligans in "Knocked Up?" What part of those boys' behavior for 90% of the movie was at all redeeming?
I believe what Parker is saying, which I agree with, is that the humor isn't all that clever. It's gross-out potty humor for the most part. And while I don't deny that gross-out humor can be funny once in a while, it becomes sad and pathetic before long; a one-trick pony. For what it's worth Sarah Silverman does the same thing. Poopy, pee-pee, yeah, we get it.
I wouldn't label Apatow's humor as "Frat-boy." It's really more sophomoric. However, what Parker seems to be referring to is the clique of boys Apatow's created that is responsible for these paltry comedies.