A lifeline! Sex and the City! The perfect half-hour shot of encouragement, balm for the battered soul (sexual and otherwise), and reaffirmation that all is well with the world, I am as normal as the average single woman and let not the world tell me otherwise!
Strange as it seems, more than my colleagues or peers, I relate to four single women from
Watching all those episodes (I was doing a 4 hr, 12 episode marathon with one bad DVD thrown in), I realized that problems/issues/incidents in a single woman’s life are the same across the world and possibly the universe ( I am sure single Martians of the female gender are made to believe in a shelf life too).
Why is it that when they discuss dreamboat men who turn out to be total jerks, it sounds familiar? When they show “the girls” being totally pained and irritated at a baby shower, why does the dialogue sound remarkably like what you actually told your friend when he was going on for the 314thtime, about how the baby pooped! They show smug married couples and women rubbished for being single, and Why? Oh,Why? is it more than faintly reminiscent of the conversation with a friend (much married of course) from the
In some ways, it is very comforting to know that what I experience is not a stand-alone, afflicts one person in a billion conditions. More power to these women! May their tribe grow… (fictional and otherwise)
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