Not a Bradshaw for me, thanks!
I don’t like Sex and the City sometimes. Sometimes I find it too explicit when it comes to sex and language. And that’s about it. Because I certainly love Bradshaw and her apartment, her fantabulous career (who doesn’t want a work that requires your thoughts on print?!), I love the shoes (Oh God I love,love, love the shoes!) And believe me, I’d trade lots of things for Choos and Manolos! I certainly love the way that she rationalizes her misjudgments (we don’t wanna end up harping our past mistakes cuz it won’t get us nowhere!) And yeah, I love New York! (the only sane(?) place in America).
It was all about reflection. At the end of the day, we would always want to ask ourselves what we learned on that day and what can we do to make the succeeding days better. And perhaps, to lessen the stress we are in. Everything is just so fast-paced. Be it fashion or relationships. And we get hurt as soon as we end something we barely started. We don’t even think sometimes, I think. We decide on an impulse and we think with our emotions (I think that’s healthy though, psychologically speaking). And sometimes we want to think and perhaps pay attention to those important things but we were forced to neglect them over some bottles of booze. Oooh, unhealthy you and me!
More importantly, I like that little show as it depicts women’s struggle towards social balance. And by that I did not necessarily mean that these girls in the show having multiple partners or them being girls who are sexually revolutionized but simply these girls were just actually doing what men have been doing for the last centuries (which is regarded acceptable by this society). Not for women anyway.
And I came across some really interesting realizations.
Hodgepodge this.:)
The Man of Today and The Women We Are (Thanks to that book Mardev)
On jerks and assholes
*There are now two classes of women as seen by our men; the good to be loved, but not touched; and the bad to be touched, not loved.
*Do you know that when a woman is degraded to the position of a sexual object of the male, her self-image is being corrupted?
*Many men proclaim they would like to see women sexually awakened and free to indulge in behavior in which today brings forth great condemnation. But what they really mean is that they would like to see more loose women around for them to exploit.
*Men often want to use these women and discard them. They would not see these women as fit wives. They do not want the double standard relaxed; they actually seek to have it reinforced.
This world must still make long strides toward the emancipation of women. Such emancipation will not exist until a female has the right to choose to have lovers as a man so chooses, and until she lives in a group that does not inflict upon her the notion that she is a fallen woman when she loves freely. When sexually alive women are accepted and are not considered oversexed trollops, much of the anguish will be relieved. This will be a great stride toward implementing the progress made in the last century in regard to economic and political liberation of woman.
So hail to it, Bradshaw!
