Girl's Trip movie. C+ rating at best (my opinion)

This may be reaching, however, I caught some undertone things within this movie that disturbed me. Besides what I and others saw on the surface as far as the overall theme of the movie (which was for the most part, had a positive end message), I noticed that this movie also reinforced some negative and plaguing stereotypes about black women.

Stereotype #1:

Black women can be successful, but are still usually single (can't get a man or keep one), divorced, or in a dysfunctional relationship with a significant other (E.g: their spouse is a cheater, a bum, or abusive). In the movie, 2 out of the 4 friends were single, 1 was divorced, and 1 was in a dysfunctional relationship which ended in divorce.

Stereotype #2:

Black women are promiscuous and lack sexual discipline or the ability to use protection in order to avoid getting an unwanted pregnancy or STD.  In the movie, the "other" woman (who is black) who was sleeping with a married man, got pregnant KNOWING that she was having unprotected sex with a man that was supposed to be committed to his wife. Also in the movie, it was revealed that one of the friends had contracted clamidya (but she and her friends were ecstatic because she did not, in fact, contract an incurable infection such as herpes or HIV).

Stereotype #3:

Black women hate their natural hair and always wear weave to cover it up. 99% of the black women in this movie had on some type of European, Brazilian, or Asian weave, thus reinforcing the stereotype that African hair is inferior to straight hair and unattractive.

Stereotype #4:

Black women's biggest allies are not black men, which should be building, providing, and protecting them, but rather themselves or their other female comrades. On the surface level, there really isn't anything wrong with this. But I felt as if the movie was reduced down to a feministic theme. Nearly all the men in this movie were either sex objects or villains (with the exception of one...who was used as a knight in shining armor to one friend's disastrous end to a fake marriage).

Now, I understand that this movie was supposed to be a comedic relief. It was supposed to get a bunch of laughs about four women who are close friends, going on a trip and making lifetime memories. The film also touched on the importance of friendship, openness, honesty, and vulnerability. It largely is a movie about having fun and living life to the fullest with the ones who are closest to you. BUT, I also want us to keep in mind that with black people having an already F'd up image in society, we have to be VERY careful about what we project onto the screens for the world to see and reinforce certain stereotypes. It is in itself, a form of propaganda and black people, especially black women, can not afford to get their image tarnished even further. Even if it is a seemingly innocent comedy movie about four friends.

I got a couple of laughs out of this film. It was a decent comedy. But I was more disturbed by some of the reckless content (peeing on people, twerking and dry humping strangers, getting recklessly drunk, loud and outrageous in public...also scenes in the film).

A C+ at best...