This is so true. I enjoyed watching the show Sex and the City, and will probably enjoy the movie too. But I also like science fiction. Tthe writers, most of them, in any case, were men. I got the impression that the characters in that show were not written as woman, but as how men imagined women would behave. The women are almost always in dresses, in an era when women began wearing pantsuits and slacks. They live financially preposterous lives. And in an age of AIDs and other nasty STDs, all that talk about sex and no talk about worrisome news from the STD clinic? And the shoes. Well. Personally, I like shoes that are not uncomfortable because I like to walk. No five inch heels for me. None of the characters in SATC are like me. Facts of Life is a different story. Does WowOwow have a philosophy? It would be nice to see a little mission statement or something posted somewhere on the site. Have you found one?

Alright, Maggi D ….. Maybe a lot of the women responding are just from a different generation, but yours is the first answer that rings true to me. I realize the women on this website are an intelligent, serious-minded group of ladies, but, what the heck? No one ever questioned their sexuality, their attractiveness, their lovability? No one ever felt just a little frightened that they might never make that connection, that they might spend their days alone? I have never lived a life remotely like these women, but I still related to all of them at one time or another. Discovering in my 30’s that I was a sensual woman, and becoming overwhelmed with acting on this knowledge. Wondering if I would ever find, as Carrie says, “passionate, crazy, inconvenient love.” Yearning for babies and a traditional life as a wife. Or when Carrie realizes that if she stays single forever, her life will never be celebrated again (as in shower gifts, wedding gifts, baby, etc.) so she sends out an annoucement of her marriage to herself! On the surface, the show may seem shallow and the women promiscuous, but it’s so much more. First and foremost, it’s about the loyal and enduring friendship of these four women, and the men are just the backdrop. Also, underneath the clubhopping and the fashions, are smart, successful women who don’t need a man to support them financially, but still have a vulnerable side, and fighting against it, wanting to believe they’re fine all alone, but still yearning for love. If, from the answers that I have read so far, all of you ladies are so completely self-sufficient and never wasted any of your time analyzing some man you were involved with, more power to you. I am 52, and still feel a yearning inside that there is something more, something missing. Guess I’m just not there yet.

Touché!