Posted on 07/16/2009 8:57:56 AM PDT by libh8er
The days of Sex and the City's influence are long gone. From Tina Fey's fake prude to Sarah Palin's real power play, here's why strong women just aren't that into having sex with you anymore. Brilliant, funny, and powerful women are retreating from sex as never before, and if you don't believe it, take the curious case of Liz Lemon. The most complicated and intelligent woman in television comedy barely ever has sex. She doesn't sit on laps, either — "not a lap sitter," she tells one handsome date she brings home in the first season. (He turns out to be her cousin.) She admits to losing her virginity at twenty-five and accidentally reveals that she doesn't believe people can have intercourse standing up. Liz Lemon's low libido is one of 30 Rock's running gags, like the writers' obsession with junk food or Jack Donaghy's use of words like "upward-revenue-stream dynamics." When Jenna asks about sex with her beeper-salesman boyfriend, Liz replies, "Fast and only on Saturdays — it's perfect." That line is a dagger in the heart of every thinking heterosexual man in America, and for Liz and the like-minded career women in The Women, He's Just Not That Into You, Sandra Bullock's latest, The Proposal, or just about any other chick flick of late, it's become achingly clear that sex is usually the last thing on their minds.
How did this happen? A mere decade ago, Seinfeld's Elaine Benes was hilarious, smart, familiar with Russian novelists, an aggressive and demanding professional, and a woman who fooled around a lot. The Sex and the City fantasia of fin de siècle Manhattan broke women's desires into separable components — status, career, money — but sooner or later every conversation between the four principals came back to who's doing what with
(Excerpt) Read more at esquire.com ...
I have that effect on women.
In before the Helen Thomas photos.
Difficult when Lord Zero’s ecomomy has mad it hard to afford a decent date anymore......What you don’t like Soda Crackers and Vienna Sausages?? Want a RC Cola and Moon Pie instead?? SLAP!!! LMAO
I like this part:
“The teeth are all the same, the noses are all the same (except Diane von Furstenberg’s), the tits are all the same, and no doubt the pudenda are all shaved in the same pattern. “You have to figure out pretty quickly where you fit in,” Whitney tells us in an opening monologue, and for this striver, having a boyfriend and having sex with him are just other socially expected poses.”
parsy, who prefers his guitar to trying to figure out women
I couldn’t care less what that magazine for politically-correct urban males “Esquire” says about anything. I WAS hoping for some pictures, though. (Just not ones of Helen Thomas).
bttt
Odd ... haven’t noticed this at all.
Google is your friend.
That could be a new standard abbreviation:
IBHTP
Or more likely, she’s just not that into you.
Thank you, I always hate pointing out that the people in the magic box are pretending. Entertainment is a very imperfect reflection of reality.
LOL Parsy. I feel the same about my gear. Hey, at least my piano never told me it loved me and then screwed my friends.
they’re probably just building up to an end-of-season-five cliffhanger involving a cruise ship orgy....
Whatever happened to just getting to know each other in relationships then using that knowledge to make your partner happy?
From my observations, women’s various components outside of relationship can be filled if she and her husband both work at satisfying each other’s (not just physical) needs. I’ve met successful businesswomen who have successful work lives and successful family lives. They all seem to have good communication with their spouses and they mutually strive to compliment each other in all aspects of life.
ROFL! We should start a club!
Loose women are easily found—just find a Democrat. Leftwing women are known for being very loose, but that’s all they’re ultimately good for. It was actually consciously used as a leftist recruiting tool as far back as the late 19th century. When you go looking for a good woman to start a family with, find a conservative.
You think you have it bad? I'm in negotiations with the Pope to help convince more women to become nuns. :-(
"I asked the cab driver to take me to someplace where I could get some action....he drove me to my house." - Rodney Dangerfield
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