No man would go running from Andie Anderson.
Andie embodies everything about these tropes. And that would be completely fine if the film didn’t reward her behaviour in the most obvious terms. The whole idea for Andie’s article was inspired by Michelle, her friend who has just been dumped by a man named Mike. “Why does this always happen to me?” she weeps, noting how she’d told Mike she loved him after two days, cried after the first time they had sex, and proceeded to call him obsessively in the days that followed.
Being the good friend that she is, Andie responds by assuring Michelle: “If I did the things you did, I’d get dumped, too.” Cue a features meeting in which Andie pitches a piece on, you guessed it, how to lose a guy in 10 days by replicating the actions of her best pal. The idea is that Andie will be her regular cool girl self to “hook a guy”, and then, the following day, she will “pull the switch”.
Lo and behold, her plan works. On their first date, Andie and Benjamin wind up going out for lobster. She eats with her hands, drinks beer from the bottle and responds to him with one-word sentences, not revealing anything about herself in a way that gives him space to fill in the gaps with his own fantasised version of who she is. Her energy is calm, confident –and, crucially, masculine. Benjamin is instantly hooked.
Then, when Andie does “pull the switch”, he is predictably put off. Because this is the version of womanhood the film satirises. She transforms into a hyper-feminine cyborg who wears 1950s-style frocks, redecorates his bathroom with pink paraphernalia, and even creates a mock-up photo album of digitally altered photos of their future children. She also names his penis “Princess Sophia”.
Spoiler alert: Andie does eventually drop the act during a trip to Benjamin’s family home in Staten Island. For reasons that are never properly explained, it’s too hard to maintain her man-repellant persona in this context, so she reverts to Cool Andie. Guess what happens next? He falls in love with her.
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