Posted By: parrotflower@yahoo.com @ 06/18/2008 12:48:10 PM
Comment: (Con't)
Just fodder for the plot machine, or is the secret message of "Sex" you can't get what you want? What you want isn't what
you really want? I'm tired of that patronizing old line.
Men have good reason to be wary of this movie. How many women proclaiming that they're "a Carrie" or a "Samantha"
have used it as a reason to behave poorly, like relationship kamakazes on their path to fulfill a new stereotype of glamor
that parades around in equally emotionally crippling chains as the old stereotypes? Young women who have never even
dated are spouting negative images of men and relationships as though they were bitter divorcee's.
Why are we talking about this instead of the fact that women still make 76 cents on the dollar for the same job as men
and one presential candidate had gone on record not supporting a bill that would make it easier for us to sue for
discrimination that we find out about after it's occured? What about Title X's blatant misuse, and the fact that young
women are becoming pregnant or infected at higher rates than before the AIDs scare because of a sexual policy
counter-revolution?
They are real battles for feminism right now. Harping shrilly on platforms with shaky bases, especially ones that even on
the surface seem superficial, is giving anti-feminists lots of examples of their stereotypes of feminists and women: illogical,
shrewish, over-emotional with no real complaints.