Men's Memes: What 'sex and the city' did for women

Monday, May 05, 2008

What 'sex and the city' did for women

What did sex and the city do for women around the world?

I can tell you what it did for them. It encouraged them, probably more than any other show, to view promiscuity and a vacuous, materialistic, singleton lifestyle of using men to be 'cool' and acceptable. It made them buy into the illusion that they could sleep around and live a 'party-girl' lifestyle during their 20s and 30s and still get an alpha male to marry them in their 40s.

Someone added in a great comment at the end:

"I think if some women feel "empowered" by a fictional TV show, they need to have a good look at where they are getting their sustenance for life.

I'm a bloke. The next Indiana Jones film is coming up soon - should I feel "empowered" by that? Nonsense, all of it.

A.N, London, UK"

1 comment:

Anonymous said...: It also made women buy billions of dollars worth of cat food as they increasingly became left to themselves to suffer as biological failures with only a cat(s) for any recourse of companionship.

It is very strange and disturbing that single women in their 40's I know - that most likely had the "sex and the city" lifestyle - being unable to have children, now call their cats "children".

Some have dogs, but the same effect.

Since "Sex And The City" inception in 1998, cat foods sales have consistently trended an increase by over a billion dollars. There is no illusion that cat food manufactures have made a killing off the "single", "smart", and "successful" woman. Meow. Meow.; 5:18 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."