The romantic comedy, of course, has been conservative for many decades; the genre never fully recovered from 1930s moral policing and, with very few exceptions, champions long-term, monogamous, heterosexual relationship as the pinnacle of human experience.

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What I Learned From a Summer of Romantic Comedies - Chloe Angyal - Entertainment - The Atlantic

And that’s why most of them are booooring. At least the old ones had Rosalind and Katharine and Myrna, and fanciful hats.