If those were the reasons for dismissing it, then we would have to dismiss virtually all TV series and films. Most of the criticisms of the series (as with other series like it, such as Desperate Housewives) were also based on a misreading: that they 'masculinize' women, that they portray women as female 'studs' immorally and gratuitously hunting down men for a transient 'score', etc, then reporting back to the 'gal den' for a post-mortem analysis and point-scoring boast-fest.
On the contrary, if we strip away the cosmopolitan urban-sophisticate chic ironic posing, what remains is a group of ultra-conservative stereotypes straight out of maudlin Mills & Boon romantic fiction, relentlessly obsessing over finding The Right Man, the One. The whole series is fundamentally anti-feminist, thoroughly phallocentric, with all the heroines forever in a state of lack without their Man. It's 'postmodern' twist is that the series renders this search for The One equivalent to the consumerist condition itself: a fear of all or any commitment, a continuous procrastination, an imprisonment in the anxiety of equivocation ("Will I buy this one or that one or ... so many to choose from and their all cute and I don't want to miss out on any and I'd have to stop shopping and I couldn't compare notes anymore with the gals") and postponement of choice, while still all predicated around subordination to phallic coupledom.
No chance of them becoming serial killers. Yet.
Exactly! The reason why I personally hate SaTC is not because it portrays women having sex and enjoying it, but on the contrary, because it portrays women as (what else?) conservative stereotypes of what happens to women who try to "act like men" and have consequence-free sex--they're always really, deep down, ultimately just "women," which in the show seems to mean co-dependent, marriage-obssessed, sexually neurotic, relationships-as-consumerism cliches. Anyone who watches SaTC and doesn't notice that rather than being point-scoring frat boys, the women are entirely hung up and tortured by ther own lack of competitiveness in the sex-marriage market, is not paying attention. It's condescending. It's ugly. It's sickening. But it's touted as "female empowerment."
If there's ever a show that portrays women who are *actually* sexually liberated, I will be an unrepentant fan. I'm not holding my breath, though.
I never once said I that I "hate men", I pointed out facts about male behaviors and in other posts, facts about the evolutionary history of humans. It's not my fault that men rape women. It's not my fault that in our recent history, humans did not have any concept of "fatherhood" like we have since around the Babylonian era.
I don't believe in the "family" myth, I don't believe families need be the centralmost unit of human social organization. This is not tantamount to misandry. I could go on all day about why. This doesn't mean men are "bad", it just means I don't think men are or should be the "natural" center or authority figure in a family, as most people believe. If I hear one more person blame fatherless homes for situations that are CLEARLY caused by economic hardship and disparity, I'm going to lose it.
And Shonx, I too have all kinds of friends who have been raped and/or sexually assaulted. But they were the vast majority all raped by family members or friends/boyfriends. (Some of them are even men, imagine that.) This anecdotal observation is borne out by most of the available statistics.
Yes, typical heterosexuality bores me, and I have every right to feel this way. Just like you have yours to hold women to a double standard where certain behaviors are "worse" in females. Just admit it, you don't think it's ladylike. It doesn't flatter your ego. It's ok. It's always best to be honest with yourself isnt' it?
