Postfeminism

"You don't need a man, you are the man, If you don't stop you will be forever alone" this is the quote from Think Like a Man that came to mind while I was reading this article "Post-feminism and Popular Culture" by Angela McRobbie. In this film and in many other films we are told that we are unable to be strong powerful woman unless we are willing to be labeled "a bitch" or even "a man." In this movie in particular there is a woman named Lauren who is a C.E.O of her company and makes a six figure salary. While talking with her friend Candance during dinner she says how she should not have to lower her standards because she is an independent powerful woman and if she was a man then woman would flock on her, her friend Candance then reassures her that yes, but since she is a woman it makes men flee rather then flock. My question would be, why would a woman have to be told that she is unable to be powerful and independent because it will scare men away from her success. In the movie Steve Harvey even says that "the independent woman" needs to lower her standards if she truly wants to find love because the men want to be the provider and once they feel like they are unable to be that since the woman makes more then the man will want to leave. She does not want to lower her standards, but in the end of the movie it shows herself lowering her standards by giving herself up to love and the male character Dominic. This happens in many movies such as Pretty in Pink, when in the end a strong independent woman changes her style and role to be with a man, and in the Ugly Truth when Abby gets lessons from Mike in order to get the attention of a man.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8vxExfofIo
   -Talk between Candance and Lauren
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htyDkxfdaLc
    -The ugly truth "women need beauty to show some type of full success"