Boys Good/ Girls Women Bad

Flogging that dead horse... " We have got to make it to Tara.....", We revisit Sex and the City , Two.

The Ladies, seen here at the London premiere.

Taking on a life of its on, the response to this movie is getting a little out of hand, from what I can tell, the workers on the sunken Gulf oil rig were watching a bootleg copy of SATC2, and were so shocked by the horror they were forced to wittiness, burned down their rig, causing the disaster we are all watching. Seriously.

Manohla Dargis ,film critic for the New York Times took on the topic yesterday, I am sure after reading the k+b. I love the fact that she brought up the laugh fest and critically adored THE HANGOVER. Let's start by saying I did not see The Hangover. As much as a little nekkid Galifianakis is a lure, I didn't watch its prequel, AMERICAN PIE, either. I guess I don't do dumb straight boy movies, but I wouldn't call them evil.. ( well...) 78% of the ( overwhelmingly male ) critics on ROTTENTOMATOES loved ( loved loved!) The Hangover. Men on a road trip acting all crazy and wild and offensive. 83% of the ( overwhelmingly male) critics on ROTTENTOMATOES hated ( reason to gouge out my eyes ) Sex and the City, Two. Grown up ladies on a road trip acting all crazy and wild and offensive. What is the difference? ( tongue in cheek...)

That really is not to blame all the outrage over this movie ( sure, outrage is too strong of a word, but this post is keeping me from doing laundry.. so let me go with it..) not to blame all the outrage of Iron Man testosterone filled mens, not at all, the vast majority of the knife welding haters on T.Lo. were women, YOUNG women, but still.

This has happened many times before. Men being all out of control is OH! so funny, women, not so much ( girls yes, women, no). Uber fabulous Oscar, Tony, Grammy, Emmy winning actress Rita Moreno and well, Sally Struthers tried a little gender switch in the Neil Simon play THE ODD COUPLE way back in 1985, audiences stayed away in droves. Messy , brutish Oscar Madison: funny, funny, funny! Messy, brutish Olive Madison ( Ms. Moreno ) : not so much, " omg! what do you mean, she can't cook!"

A little bit, ( but not much) more recent example of this was the Americanization of Patsy and Edina. Every gay boys mid 90's heroines, tried to cross the pond. Rosanne Barr, rolling in money bought up the rights to ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS with plans of re making it in the USA. She , the most powerful woman on TV , could not pull it off. Drunk English women on basic cable: HILARIOUS! Drunk American women in prime time : A cry for help.

I am sure there are other examples , but few and far between, writers just don't tend to go there.

The ONLY scene in SATC2 that is getting something close to universal praise, are sweet Charlotte and hardworking Miranda sitting in a bar, talking about " just how hard motherhood is". You know, playing that proper role and all.
2010... and over 40, you better have on those Mrs. Cleaver pearls, or the boys are not going to like you very much, and the girls will somehow be threatened. Keep that baby on your hip and all is well. Be Carrie Bradshaw, in that same 2010, CHOSE to be child free..... you get the horror that is Sex and the City , Two, and well, other things.

A good Christian Woman.

Harpie.