"There is a real focus on men, and on what women do to men: Women don’t forgive men. Women don’t think about men and their feelings. For as sensitive as the modern man is supposed to be to a women’s feelings and as sensitive as a man is supposed to look, he’s not really supposed to register an opinion. Or slip up. Or be honest."-- Kathryn Jean Lopez, describing themes from the new Sex And The City movie, in the National Review
OK. I tried to be quiet. I did. But can't no more.
ReplyDeleteJeebus. Frikkin. Christ. WTH?! Is there one woman (a woman, no, a person of any gender, more or less discriminate) in the National Review Online that would have something positive to say about women? Anyone? Just once? Just one good thing? No? Anyone who would have a decent enough mother, for example? No? OK, only wanted to make sure.
Oh, Ms. Lopez, I could make a piece of cake of your review, but it seems like a waste of time. Just like it was a waste of time for you to go to see Sex in the City. Mind you, I'm no fan, but why is this stupid movie made into some cultural phenomenon (which it isn't) and why is it then vilified with a sickening glee for being (or not being) something which it is not supposed to be? If Lopez already knew how bad it would be and how awful the four women (and women in general) are, why waste those 9 bucks or so? And if she is so deeply ashamed of women, she, being a woman herself, why does she not go for the sex change? (I would donate money for it, if only to have her shut up already about how bad women are. And would hope the rest of female NRO staff follows suit. It's a lot of donations, but hey, it's all for a good cause.) I'm sick and tired of women haters, CMC, I really am. Whether male or female. It is one thing to observe -- and *try to understand* -- shortcomings of one gender (or preferably both), but it's another to just get off on it day in and out. NRO has absolutely nothing good to say about women. After a while, one suspects other issues involved rather than "objective criticism" there (and yes, I'm thinking the M word).
As to Sex in the City, Lopez wonders why this movie should be made in the first place. She does not wonder, mind you, why Indiana Jones should be made (again), or thousands of other, totally worthless action flicks with their many sequels. The question why is best answered by the producers wanting to pad their bank accounts, and not by using the occasion to throw a bunch of cheap shots at women (or men, in case of action flicks).
Lopez' "poor men-evil women" theme just does not fly -- not for anyone with an ounce of common sense and a good enough memory, who can recall how the characters of both genders in the TV SITC episodes did each other wrong in the name of love and sexual adventure(s). And such, btw, is life away from the silver screen -- love hurts men *and* women. It is an equal opportunity offender in this respect. Creating straw men, or more accurately straw women here, to knock down and blame for this state of affairs serves no one but the delusions of the writers and their employers (who nurse a transparent agenda that is really getting tiresome).