Jun 06
This entry was posted on Friday, June 6th, 2008 at 6:45 am and is filed under slack woman. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
There are 457 posts and 3,896 comments so far.
The McMac theme is built with PS, brushes and patterns by milo IIIIVII.
Check my other themes too.
How to change the del.icio.us script: edit your del.icio name instead of mine.
Open footer.php in the theme folder to edit this message.
June 6th, 2008 at 7:47 am
It’s a shame that young girls think skank means fashion but it seems that’s what it’s come down to for a lot of them. I haven’t watched the TV show and I don’t plan to watch the movie. Thankfully there’s more interest in flip-flops than stilettos in this house — and they’re easier to run in when you’re late for the school bus!
June 6th, 2008 at 8:45 am
YAM, love that word Skank. It’s sounds the part.
June 6th, 2008 at 9:44 am
I’ve never watch an episode of Sex and the City. I have no plans on seeing the movie. I have to hand it to my parents. Growing up, I was dressed for my age, not to be years and years older. i was told “You can and will get educated. You can and will a job. You can and will support yourself. You can be anything you want.” That is enpowering the young. I was never encouraged to be a skank; to be a cut out of a Hollywood celebrity. I see parents, no, not parents, mostly just mothers, with little girls 10 and 12. These little girls are dressed in clothing I wouldn’t even wear at age 27 and the mothers are dressed the same. How, in the name of all that is clean, can a mother let her little girl (and herself) in public like that? Where is your self respect? What kind of self image are you instilling in your little girl? I’ll admit I like to look good, but my clothes fit and I’m covered. Modesty doesn’t make you a prude. It makes you a “puzzle” to be figured out. If everything you have to offer is “hanging out”, where’s the intrigue, the challenge? We all know what you got, who cares?
I like my high heels. But I don’t wear them everyday because I like my sneakers too. Mothers need to raise their little girls to be comfortable with who they are and not how the world sees them.
All that being said, I’m not a feminist. I’m a humanist. Self respect is for everyone.
June 6th, 2008 at 1:36 pm
I’ve never watched the show (or any shows that might fit into that category for that matter), but for some reason your article inspired images of a gay pride parade.
June 6th, 2008 at 7:09 pm
Puppet, if the world sees a little girl as a skank, it will treat her as a skank even if she and her mother think otherise. And there were humanists aplenty 100 years ago who didn’t think women or blacks deserved the vote. Thank God for the ones who were brave enough to stand up for their rights.
Dick, no, Sex and the City probably wouldn’t be your cuppa, and if my piece inspired that those images, then my work here is done. Thank you. PS where ya been these last few weeks
June 6th, 2008 at 7:43 pm
I am standing up and doing the slow clap here.
I actually have nothing against watching Sex and the City. It’s quite entertaining. But that is all it should be - fictional entertainment. If we start mistaking it for role mentoring, we as a society are hooped.
June 7th, 2008 at 1:33 pm
The show would be OK as satire.
June 8th, 2008 at 12:17 am
I really admire the way you were able to spell Manolo Blahniks or whatever they are. I do think there is one “feminist” aspect of Sex and the City and it may actually disprove some things that the more radical feminists thought at the beginning of the last century. The theme of the show other than fashion is that women can be single, have sex, and enjoy it. Some used to think this was liberation at the deepest level and would naturally result in social-political empowerment as well.
I’m not sure it did and Sex and the City might be the proof.
June 8th, 2008 at 2:34 am
Sigh(Trying so hard not to make a crass joke).
June 8th, 2008 at 9:20 am
Barbara, I quite enjoyed aspects of it as well, but part of that enjoyment was reading of its message which isn’t as straight forward as four sex-obsessed, shoe-obsessed New York women.
Megan, I think it is partly a satire of modern womanhood,but I think there is more to it than that alone.
Chance, yes it was a challenge to spell that word and I agree with your assessment of liberation, but SATC is also part of a continuum that ends with Girls Gone Wild parties which would not fit into my notion of liberation
WP- oh go on, hit me.
June 8th, 2008 at 6:48 pm
I’m all for Odd Socks and the City.
June 9th, 2008 at 12:46 am
I can’t remember the joke and if it was truly worthy, I would’ve forgone the discomfort on everyone’s part.
June 10th, 2008 at 10:12 pm
I enjoyed your column very much. I’m American, and I became a Democrat when I was seven, because they had a woman on the ticket. Obama’s not a bad candidate, and Hillary made some mistakes, but it’s still hard for me to see that she’s not the nominee. Seven-year-old Red has been waiting 24 years for that.
Good column, and good points. I sometimes cringe when I think of the battles my unborn daughters and I may have over fashion.
June 11th, 2008 at 10:14 am
Ambera, I think I’ll audition.
WP, I guess we should thank you then
Red, well than you v. much. I see fashion a cultural code to be interpreted. It’s a fascinating window into the way we are.
June 17th, 2008 at 1:28 pm
A silly, silly, silly show.