Men's Memes: 'Sex and the city' gave women the feeling that its aceptable to be promiscuous, shallow and materialitic

Friday, May 30, 2008

'Sex and the city' gave women the feeling that its aceptable to be promiscuous, shallow and materialitic

Two and a half hours. Process that for a moment. Two and one half hours. Not 90 minutes. Not two hours. Two and a half hours. Now, with that firmly in mind, process this. Imagine, if you will, a Rob Schneider movie, a Ben Stiller movie and an Adam Sandler movie teaming up and slipping Rohypnol to the BRATZ movie, pulling a train on her sorry, barely legal ass, then leaving the unfortunate spawn of that unholy union in the LA sun for 40 years until it rotted and leathered to the point that it was attractive only to gay men and other women. That’s the movie.

The above comes from a pretty funny review of the new 'Sex and the city' movie by a man over at Aint It Cool News. Here are a few more quotes from his review:

"They’re not flirty and single because it’s so hard to find a good man. It’s because they’re all completely self-obsessed, neurotic, high maintenance divas. And I found each and every one of them thoroughly unlikable."

"But I just couldn’t get over how much this shared in common with BRATZ: the Movie. Montage after montage after montage with each and every problem finding a solution by the fabulously dressed four getting together, squee-ing in a pitch that will deafen dogs and neuter most of the males in the audience, and realizing that friendship will get you through any bout of rampant self-absorption. Oh, so this is what happens when you leave Bratz dolls in the sun too long."

"I pity any man who walks into this with his girl thinking he is in for just the usual hour and a half ass pounding only to discover that instead he’s entered a two and a half hour oubliette from which there is no escape."

Anyway, this new movie is out, featuring the four actresses from the original TV show - one of whom is a dyke in real life, and another was voted by the readers of Maxim magazine 'The world's unsexiest woman'. Incidentally, I doubt she won just because she's got a face like a horse, but because she touts herself as so attractive and because shes cultivated this image - via this awful TV series - as being a bitchy, snobby, slut. In other words: she had it coming to her.

Now, it probably goes without saying, but this show was extremely popular with women, and had an aspirational element to it: its female fans - who were legion - wanted to live the lifestyle it portrays. Impressionable young girls found this the perfect excuse for ruining themselves by emulating the slutty behaviour in this show. How sad.

Nevertheless, there is one thing this show has given men: a great quick-and-simple method whereby to assess the quality-of-character of any potential girlfriend: simply ask her if she liked the show. Then if she did, drop her.

However, if the studio had come to me first, I swear I could have saved this project.

Heres what I would have said to the studio execs:

Okay, we know several things about this show:

1. Its written by gay men, and everyone knows its about the promiscuous gay lifestyle projected onto women (at least it was back in the mid-to-late-90s,, these days young women are just as promiscuous, probably at least partly due to this show and others like it).

2. Its *supposed* to be funny. Its *supposed* to make people laugh. (although I've seen no evidence of this)

3. The actresses all want loads of money to appear in the movie.

"Okay," I would say, looking down the boardroom table at the studio execs, "What does this suggest to you all?"

Silence.

"I'll tell you what it suggests to me: scrap the original actresses from the project - after all, we all know that a successful franchise is almost never dependent on any one particular actor - and get unknown gay male actors to play the roles! But play them as though nothing had changed. Use the same character names, same outfits, everything. Get them playing it in drag, but dead seriously. Now, THAT would be hilarious, would save money, AND would acknowledge the true roots of the show."

At that point I just KNOW that the execs would start to think, then slowly nod their heads as the genius of the idea sinks in!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...: I'd watch that show. But then I'm also guilty of dressing up in drag so I can identify.; 12:05 am
Anonymous said...: The movie instead showed just how Shallow, Stupid, substance less Western Feminized Women are. The make a movie about Bowell Movements, Shoes, Handbags, Eating Out. This shows just how worthless Western women are. The Moslems are right if this is how Women behave they should be oppressed to protect Civilization.

What has Feminism brought us in the West. A Massive destruction of Families and Knife Killings in the UK. And a Massive Prison Industry in the US. We should hang Feminists not debate them.; 8:52 pm

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Turn of the tide: feminists begin to regret

Cosmopolitan (The women's magazine that urges women to use men for sex) Editor Lorraine Candy has a change of mind and now urges women not to have "Soul-less sex":

"We didn't feel ashamed about one-night stands...this, we thought, is what feminism is about."

70s feminist Fay Weldon now says:

"It is the fault of me and my like, who... got it wrong.

So were we wrong, we feminists, setting women free? The results have been devastating – greater than we ever imagined.

We steamed ahead, changing the world with too little caution, and I hope the future will forgive us.

The pendulum has swung too far over. But it may yet swing back again. Societies, thank God, tend to be self-righting."

"Once a man could look forward to starting a family and the dignity that came from being the provider. Forget it. At best as a man you're decorative, look after the kids and earn a bit sometimes; at worst you're a write-off. Women are elbowing the men out. The boys get anxious, the girls swagger. The male suicide rate goes up, female down. Twenty-eight per cent of us now live in single person households - a lonely and unnatural state - and most of the 28 per cent consist of young men. It is strange that it is left to a woman to suggest, in the normal nurturing way, that men start some kind of movement to promote their gender's status and self-esteem - call it masculinism, brotherism, machoism, what you want - and some mark of the success of the feminist movement, that it needs to be done."

60's feminist Doris Lessing now says:

"It is time we began to ask who are these women who continually rubbish men. The most stupid, ill-educated and nasty woman can rubbish the nicest, kindest and most intelligent man and no one protests.

Men seem to be so cowed that they can't fight back, and it is time they did."

An excerpt from an interview with Joan Rivers:

"She's not with the feminists when it comes to matters of the heart. For her, they're to blame for the current parlous state of our relationships, as depicted in these television Shows (Such as Sex in the city) and films. "I saw this coming. You cannot be equal to a man, you cannot make a man feel 'I don't need you' or 'I'll take my sex when I want it'. All these shows are so sad."

Camille Paglia :

"Women have been discouraged from genres such as sculpture that require studio training or expensive materials.

But in philosophy, mathematics, and poetry, the only materials are pen and paper.

Male conspiracy cannot explain ALL female failures.

I am convinced that, even without restrictions, there still would have been no female Pascal, Milton, or Kant.

. . . Even now, with all vocations open, I marvel at the rarity of the woman driven by artistic or intellectual obsession, that self-mutilating derangement of social relationship which, in its alternate forms of crime and ideation, is the disgrace and glory of the human species."