Week #5 Eureka Moment -For Sex and the City viewers
Sex and the City certainly takes advantage of the cable television sitcom and, ever so uncensored due to its HBO platform, shows that women have taken a far leap from the typecast role of model homemaker. This show depicts four successful women in modern New York City whose extra-professional goal is to find a worthy man. Sex and the City surely denotes a great independence and freedom that women have. As the women dissect and examine their relationships and desirable male counterparts, they form an iron bond and use one another to vent, confide in, and find assurance in their personal philosophies. Though the show may accurately represent female, upper-class, single life in the big city, it paints misconstrued ideals of the male and female relationships. Any viewers disagree? The main and focused point of the show, and its saving grace, is the emphasis of strong female relationships with one another and the importance of friendship. The four women of the program all exhibit their very distinct side of happiness and discontent. Their upper class status does allow them to live their lives and do what makes them happy, sexually and socially, or at least the attempt to do so. Sexual confidence appears to denote who is happiest and in the most control . However, as a whole, even though Sex and the City portrays a great aura of female freedom, it lacks any feel whatsoever of female empowerment. Above its stories of friendship and relationship woe, the show ultimately takes for granted women who in reality strive for both equality among men in the workplace and break out of the mold that depicts women as mere sex objects. The sitcom also represents a small percentage of women in the middle to upper class, who have the luxury of choosing their path as far as working or settling down in a family. I wanted to ask that in today’s society lower class where many women have no choice but to work, given perhaps that has been the case for most of their lives, do you think they would rather prefer to staying home and spending time with their children? Also, in speaking to a dominantly female forum, how accurate would you say the proclaimed accuracy of the female dynamics on a show like this actually is?
Nik B. I think people in general tend to want what they can’t have. I’ve been a single mother and I’ve worked all my life. There was a time that I wanted to stay at home and be an at home mother. So for my first son I stayed at home for the first two years of his life. I must say It is hard work. It is harder than getting up and going to work and school every day. You can leave your job, but when you are an at home mom your job is with you all day and all night and you don’t getting any breaks, especially if you are a single mother. It is the hardest and most rewarding job that anyone can have. You really don’t know what you want until you give it a try. I love going after a career and I like the fact that I got to stay home with my son but I would not want to be an at home mom all the time. I think most women just want the option to be able to choose. If they want to say home they can stay home or if they want a career they can pursue a career. We want to be able to explore our option and not have them dictated to us through societal standards of what a woman should want to do. I don’t think that all women want the same things and there isn’t one mold that old women fit into.
To me Sex in the City and show’s like it are parody’s or charactures of real women lives. It has a lot of similarities, but the topics that they focus on are blown out of proportion and so over the top that it can be more extreme than reality.
Nik B.
ReplyDeleteI think people in general tend to want what they can’t have. I’ve been a single mother and I’ve worked all my life. There was a time that I wanted to stay at home and be an at home mother. So for my first son I stayed at home for the first two years of his life. I must say It is hard work. It is harder than getting up and going to work and school every day. You can leave your job, but when you are an at home mom your job is with you all day and all night and you don’t getting any breaks, especially if you are a single mother. It is the hardest and most rewarding job that anyone can have. You really don’t know what you want until you give it a try. I love going after a career and I like the fact that I got to stay home with my son but I would not want to be an at home mom all the time. I think most women just want the option to be able to choose. If they want to say home they can stay home or if they want a career they can pursue a career. We want to be able to explore our option and not have them dictated to us through societal standards of what a woman should want to do. I don’t think that all women want the same things and there isn’t one mold that old women fit into.
To me Sex in the City and show’s like it are parody’s or charactures of real women lives. It has a lot of similarities, but the topics that they focus on are blown out of proportion and so over the top that it can be more extreme than reality.