jerry maguire -- a feminist film?

so I started watching jerry maguire ('96, directed by cameron crowe, stars tom cruise & renee zellweger) with dan on friday night and finished it tonight by myself, at home, in my lovely, comfy bed and I realized that it is TOTALLY a feminist movie. and not even like a raging '90's feminist movie (although, yes, it is), just like a good, solid, feminist movie.

here this premise of why this movie rocks from a feminist perspective. main theme of the movie for a good, long while is: man cannot be loney, man needs woman, while woman doesn't need man. what a nice, stereotypically different message!

here are our 3 strong females:
1. ex-fiance, terry -- we start with this woman who is a total hottie and is maguire's initial fiancee and totally punches him in the face when he breaks off the engagement. that's kind of a low blow, but her whole deal is complete and total honesty because she's not sensitive (love it!) and can handle the truth -- but apparently jerry can't. granted, bitch totally makes jerry this video interviewing women who all say he's totally incapable of being alone and always needs someone, a woman, in his life, which is kind of an asshole thing to do, but whatever, we can forgive her.
2. aunt laurel -- doesn't have a husband, kind of whiney, but runs a divorce group for women -- which kind of reminded me of my minyan...except they whine more.
3. dorothy -- totally awesome. granted she falls in love with maguire from the first second and you think she's going to be a weak-in-the-knees kind of annoying female lead, but on their first date she tells jerry, "let's not tell our sad stories" because she knows that she's better than that. she stands for what she wants (she leaves with jerry when he leaves smi, the company he was working for before) and supports jerry for who he is. she's strong enough to call him out when he's being an asshole and "end" their marriage when he's running away but is too pussy to say anything for himself. so yeah, she's kind of a g.

so, just figured I would share with the group that next time they're watching a movie, any movie, keep an eye out for cool feminine characters. they're totally out there.

if neuropathways are set, what does that mean for me?