Chloe Angyal believes romantic comedies are related to fairy tales:
The moral of the Beauty and the Beast story, we tell children, is that looks can be deceiving. … But in its romantic comedy incarnations, the Beauty and the Beast story – and that moral in particular – get twisted. In popular contemporary rom coms like The Ugly Truth, As Good As It Gets, You've Got Mail, we stop teaching girls to look beyond beastly appearance and start teaching women to look beyond beastly behavior.
The Dish 