David G. Eigen, Ph.D. ™

All hail the gods of sleaze! Sex and the City panders to the prurient interests, exulting the meaninglessness of humanity devoid of heart and soul. This it encourages under the guise of women’s freedom, the freedom to exalt the darkness within. Explore it, yes, acknowledge it as a part within all, yes, but worship it, no. Yet, women are flocking to this movie. What’s that about?

Proponents will defend their “freedom of speech” rights, being driven by their greedy agendas. Janice Joplin sang it best, “Freedom’s just another word for nothin’ left to lose.” Oh great! There’s nothing left to lose, so what the hell. Let’s do nothing, declare our impotence, “there’s nothing we can do about it.”

Well, I don’t accept this, and I resent not only treating men as mindless buffoons, but also depicting women as shallow, lying whores. Both sexes have said the same of the other, haven’t they? Just like the very desperate housewives, these depictions NEVER show an evolution in thought and only serve to make these views seem more the norm and therefore OK. Is this really freedom, or our dark-sides spewing out in the name of freedom?

This show/movie depicts women acting like men at their worst. “You’ve come a long way baby,” now you can act like men at their worst. You go girls, show them what shallow heartless sluts women really can be. That will really make a difference, won’t it? And we all lap it up, like dogs in heat, don’t we? What great role models you actresses portray. But it sells movies, makes money, and whores are whores, aren’t they.

What about the damage done men seeing them as shallow simpletons whose purpose is to be manipulated and used? This naturally creates resentment in men. Sex and the City encourages women to act out their darkness as a norm. This comes from a twisted view of the feminine that it is weak, and therefore, women must act like men, forsaking femininity to be strong. This actually demeans the feminine. First off, women are not weak, though they are taught to believe this by the patriarchal paradigm, as are men. Women must break free from these beliefs and find their own inner wisdom, incorporating the masculine, NOT becoming men. The worst part in trying to act like the opposite sex is that usually each sex takes on the most glaring characteristics of their opposites. Like being a slut, which is not a feminine characteristic at all; it is the masculine energy in a woman run amok. It is the furthest thing from women’s heritage – wisdom.

As to the resentment created by using and manipulating men, as many women feel men have done, do you think that it will magically disappear? If you do you are delusional, and I promise you it will come back on all women to haunt them. Just as men’s transgressions come back on men to haunt them. Both viewpoints need to be healed. Vengeance is not evolutionary. Two wrongs make a catastrophe, not a right. A continual attempt to poke each other’s eye out leaves us all blind. This is not wisdom and it opposes the true nature and purpose of the feminine to be The Gods of Wisdom. Isn’t it time to awaken and see this type of “harmless entertainment” for the damage it does?