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4.2.05

am i a Miranda?

so, last week, only not really last week because i'm sure it was an ages-old episode from years ago, since HBO isn't something we get and TBS is, but, so, last week, (season 4, episodes in the low 60's) on sex and the city, aidan proposes to carrie, and carrie flips out because she "Doesn't Have the Bride Gene." she says she ought to be "put in a test tube and studied." She's not all excited about the hoopla. And yes be-with-you-forever and yes i'm-in-love and yes unimaginable, but because she's not all WICced-out and nuts-for-bridal, her relationship dissolves and she almost loses her apartment. Because she doesn't have her Bride Gene her life comes to this awful screeching halt and there are issues on top of issues. On top of tissues.

And this episode pissed me off to no end. Maybe it shows. but, SATC writing team, you are Bad For Women. you pretend to make a show about four happy single womyn in The City and you sneak in all this bullshit and what kind of messages is that sending? you support the capitalist patriarchy and stereotypes about independent chicas and nobody spends forty grand on shoes, you idiots, this is why i don't watch television. I should stop. But i don't have the Bride Gene either - or at least i have a malformed, barely-expressed version of it. and i'm not losing my relationship or my house.

No pressure. Yeah freaking right. This is what i'm talking about.

Labels: media, politics

scrawled @ 20:18