Sex and the City The Movie is out. I haven't seen it nor do I intend to. I'm sure it's incredibly awful. Therefore this post has nothing to do with the plot line, cinematography, or directing that's in that garbage (I'm sure it's safe to say that all of the above suck). I'm more concerned with the message these skanks continue to send to the impressionable young females in this country. What these skeezers are telling our daughters, sisters, nieces and wives is that it's ok to be a hoe. They do this by approaching skankdom with a comedic irreverence and wrongfully romanticize what it is to be a sexually uninhibited single woman. Furthermore, they try to legitimize their skankhood by disguising it as a snub at the oppressive, patriarchal society that dominates corporate America.
Wrong, wrong, wrong. You're not liberating yourself by spreading gonorrhea throughout your social circle. You're also not breaking through that glass ceiling by having unprotected sex with 4-7 different men a week.
Listen Sarah, Kim, and the rest of the skanks in that movie: You will never reach your intended end by these means. In fact, you make it impossible to do so. You're caught up in a vicious Catch 22 that has only pushed the feminist movement back at least 75 years and helped millions of young American women to contract a host of STD's.
Look at the jungle of negative role-models nice young ladies have to hack through these days to get to a place where they can be self-confident, successful, and non-skanked:
No Comment Necessary.(Did her head get a LOT bigger recently or is it just me?)
The skank has the nerve to assume that her stupid-ass "That's Hot" phrase is ingrained enough into the popular lexicon that it can now be made ironic by her wearing a "Thats Hot" t-shirt. And she forgot the apostrophe. Maybe grammar, "isnt hot"!
Wasn't this chick on the Disney Channel? I'm not even going to get into fellow Disney Channel alums Brittney and Xtina. This is a family page and I don't think they've taken a picture I would feel comfortable posting in over 4 years. In conclusion, a recent study of New York City residents showed that 26% percent of the population carried the Herpes virus. It broke down the results to show that the virus was carried by 19% of the men and 36% percent of the women. That means at least one of the skanks in Sex and the City has it, if not all of them. Scary. Herpes is no joke.
Well, that's kind of funny.
Well, that's kind of funny.
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I don't know what your problem is but I kind of want the young ladies to skank it up. The skankier they are the more I get laid and I think I speak for the whole male race when I say I love getting laid!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Joshua:
I fully expect someone like yourself to be in favor of general skankiness. I can't lie, at times I've appreciated the genre. The problem is that other females that know better are perpetuating and manifesting these stereotypes.
You just wrote this blog hoping some skank would read it, find you companionate and bang you.
Wow, you are putting me in the extremely awkward position of actually defending Sex and the City.
Dan, I have to liken you here to the religious right getting all uptight about the Harry Potter books even though none of them ever bothered to read them.
You have obviously never seen more than 10 minutes of the show. If you had, you would realize that the girls do far more talking about sex amongst each other than having it. There is only one bona fide slut among them: Kim Cattrall's character. The other 3 spent the vast majority of the show's run in committed, monogamous relationships. If anything they are unrealistically non-slutty.
I never cared for the show because it's real focus is on fashion and wearing the latest designer names and at the end of every episode some character always makes some random, innocuous comment that is overanalyzed and turned into some grand, false epiphany. If you want to attack the show, do it on the grounds of its shallow, materialistic, "you are who you wear" attitude, not its sexual message.
The marketers decided to call it "Sex and the City" in the hope that it would shock people, and you've bought right into it. But really it's about as sexually deviant as The Addams Family is satanic.
John:
I've watched the show before, from a purely research-oriented standpoint mind you, and agree with you on some of your points.
Yes, most of the characters are in monogamous relationships, but that doesn't mean the general zeitgeist of the show would preclude those characters from engaging in skankier types of relationships.
All of the characters share an almost nihilistic view of the world as seen in their superficial worship of fashion and I believe their attitudes( whether or not they are actually skanking it out on the show in that particular episode) encourage skankiness.
How do you think the characters on the show would react to a single woman with a high-paying job that wanted to remain celibate until married?
Dan,
I think you are the King of Homlands for writing this Blog. Stick to writing about sports and leave the skanky women alone. If any skanky woman has been hurt by this blog and you want to vent please give me a call.
Excellent use of the word "zeitgeist".
To be sure, the SATC girls would not be accepting of a girl choosing to remain celibate before marriage, but then again neither would I. Maybe some people like to buy a car without taking it for a test drive first, but that doesn't make it a good idea. I think you'd agree, though, that there is a significant amount of space in between "abstinence" and "hoe".
And I'd like to file under "irony" the fact that in the last 2 weeks you've also had posts on Flavor of Love III and The Real World but think that its SATC which sets a bad examples for women.
We all know that all you need is a few shots of some dark liquor and you'd be hanging all over every one of those hoes, even Madame Winehose, trying to get them naked and nasty. Your hypocrisy reminds me of gay Republicans. I enjoyed the blog anyway.
Ok guys, you all are missing the point a little bit. 1. Skanks have their place in this world, without a doubt. At times I've found them to be umm...inspiring. That doesn't mean the world would be a better place if all women were skanks-it clearly wouldn't be.
2. RW and Flavor of Love are clearly parodies of themselves whereas SATC works on a much more subversive level and has a MUCH more massive audience.
Joe:
When MLK Jr. or Ghandi preached peace, did they not have an ounce of hate in their hearts? Just because I have at times commiserated with some women of questionable skankhood, does not mean that I no longer have the duty to spread the good word.
I had to remove and rewrite my last comment because, well, this is a family blog...
Are Republicans who crusade against gays, and then slip into an airport bathroom for a quick poke in the butt hypocritical? Yes. Are you being hypocritical in this post? Yes.
You're either born a skank or not. And I've always said that if you are, don't be afraid to skank it to the max. Dan, we all know you're truly a huge skank yourself. You're just jealous that these old bags get more action in one episode than you've seen in a long, long time! Don't hate - get out there and skank it to the max!
Joe:
Another case of the pot calling the kettle black. I find it hilarious that you continue to try and accuse me of outrageous skankdom in order to debunk my argument. My argument is based in fact and logic, and where my skank allegiances lie really have no place in this forum.
You're obviously upset that I have taken a shot at 4 very important heroines in your life. I now realize the Curb your Enthusiasm DVD cases on your bookshelf are in fact filled with SATC seasons 1-4.
I think it's now safe for you to come out of the closet and let everybody know that you admire these skanks and hope to someday emulate them in dress and advanced level of skankhood.
I think once you do that, we can really get down to exploring the merits of my argument from a more mature perspective.
Well I'm glad that you're leading the crusade against SATC and others; to rid our televisions of skanks and hoes. Good for you.
And yes, I'm not challenging your argument directly - John's already done that. I'm just pointing out the hypocrisy of it. Most people wouldn't trust Bill Clinton to champion the cause of marital fidelity, especially if he was found currently cheating on his wife. Most people don't trust oil companies to self-regulate when it comes to pollution. If you do one thing and say another, it's hard to be a crusader for a cause.
Just let the girls have SATC. You watch way trashier crap, and you blog about it all the time. Why are you so insecure about this? What's so wrong with these skanky hoes? Are you really afraid that one of your future children will watch this and slut it out as a result? I guarantee - sluts will be sluts, prudes will be prudes, and some crappy television sitcom about a bunch of old bags humping like bonobos into their granny years isn't going to change anything.
I am exactly worried about loved ones being turned into skanks by this show. You seem to favor nature over nurture when it comes to skankhood. I would argue that they're equally powerful forces.
And your Bill Clinton analogy isn't quite right.
Think of it this way, we'll use corn as an analogy. Just because there is a lot of one type of corn in an area and I partake of it, doesn't mean I shouldn't suggest that farmers grow a better variety.
I'm looking out for the kids Joe. I just want the world to be a better place for our children.
"I believe the children are our are future
Teach them well and let them lead the way
Show them all the beauty they possess inside
Give them a sense of pride to make it easier" - Whitney Houston
Wow, you took the words right out of my back door neighbor's mouth. That is, the skank filled Karaoke bar that is my neighbor. But, to bring this back home a bit, before this hazard of skanking, I concur with Dan's initial point: that a show that presents a cavalier attitude towards sex does offer an attractive model for women (who up until this show aired, were obviously completely sexually inhibitad- donning their chastity belts and scurrying past the adult toy stores... cowering in fear of how a wild sex life could ruin their careers.) But seriously, it does say it's okay to be you, and "to skank is human" And, "Skanks are still okay if they can frame each of their one night lies as "a learning experience." Even better if you can summarize your f-ed up life with a little parable of The Skank and the \insert evil force here that impinges her inalienable right to skank./ Where Dan misses a bet though is that it also offers an attractive model for men. Both in terms of the pulchritudinous women on the show, but also the in terms of the "power to skank" no longer being solely women's estate. The neo-Freudian popular belief is that women who put it out all over the floor are skanks whereas men are exempt from this quality due to the fact that they are men. Even if they do the same thing. To a degree this is true, but I'm guessing the percentage of men out there who are skanks, and don't know it is disproportionately smaller than the number of women skanks in denial. Or to put it another way, of the total number of women who are skanks, a greater percentage will admit to this as compared with men. This suggests to me, that they are more comfortable with being skanks- a comfort that could only have reached that level with a show like this. Or, in case this is a chicken or the egg sort of thing, perhaps a show like this could only have occurred and become a successful paradigm with skankdom reaching a new comfort level.
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