May 31
Drinking mama’s
A recent study has shown an increase in mother’s who drink and drive. It turns out a lot of these women, many of them stay at home mom’s, have been having a few afternoon tipples and then going to pick up the kids from school, practice, and what not. This is obviously a concern and researchers are trying to figure out the cause.
I for one already have the answer. “Sex in the City”. These impressionable mothers are watching the antics of these urban vixens and longing for that type of lifestyle. They see the constant stream of cocktail lunches and think “Why isn’t that me? It could be me. I’d be cool if I drink.” and off they go to their friends house to have a martini or two.
It’s time for us to stand up and take notice. We have to get this type of smut off of the airwaves and out of the cinemas. We can’t leave our mom’s unprotected. Next thing you know they’ll want to buy designer clothes and really large sunglasses. It’s disgusting that we haven’t been watching our mothers closer and have been letting them be influenced by the likes of Kim Cattrall and Sarah Jessica Parker. Are these actually the type of role models we want for our mothers?
Where have the Donna Reid’s, June Clever’s and Mrs. Brady’s gone? Maybe a tv rating system can be put in place. NSM-Not Suitable for Mother’s. That’s the answer. After all, who’s going to protect you better than the censors?
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Heather, I love reading your blog, but I feel I must disagree with you slightly on this one…OK, not that I believe in drinking and driving, that is highly irresponsible, and even more irresponsible with your child in the car, I totally agree with you there! But, I am not sure you can blame Sex and The City for women’s bad choices, maybe you can blame their unhappiness in their life, and drinking to mask their unhappy feelings, there is a far deeper problem there called alcohol addiction. I am not sure the 50’s were any better. Did women like Mrs Brady and June Cleaver really exist, wearing pearls and heels to vacuum, meeting thier husbands at the door with slippers and a high ball glass full of his favorite drink, and if they did exist how do we know they were happy being controlled by their husbands, not having the choices women have today, and being sexually repressed?
If anything, Sex and the City is a great outlet for women, it is the fantasy we will never live, it is the time after your kids go to bed that you can have a cocktail, and slip in your Sex and the City disc and live vicariously through Carrie, let your hair down, feel sexy, and forget about the PTA meeting and all the shit you have to do the next day. How is that so bad? I think if more women took time for themselves to do something fun that they enjoy, there might be less soccer mom alcoholics. AND, yes, I am not ashamed to say, I was one of those women that got dressed up, left my kids safely at home with their father (well, as safe as they can be), and stood in line with my girlfriends, and my mother, to see the opening weekend of Sex and The City The Movie. AND it was great!! I laughed, and cried, and yes, I had A cocktail, and it didn’t make me a slut or an alcoholic. I also know the difference between fantasy and reality, and that my life, my body, or bank account will NEVER be like Carrie’s, Charlotte’s, Miranda’s, or Samantha’s, but that is fine, I can still watch them and enjoy them for what they are, a TV show and now a movie, which I most likely will see again and again and then buy the DVD when it comes out! It is entertainment, nothing more.
Don’t worry. This piece is satirical. Much like Johnathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal”
I totally agree. We need to police what our mothers watch. They also, I think, need a strong dose of the 50s and 60s public service films so they know all the dangers facing them and their children. Shows like Sex and the City are destroying hundreds and hundreds of potentially good mothers by making them think that, they too, can be fabulous and spend their days shopping, drinking and whoring around with no consequence. Sarah Jessica Parker and the whole SATC crew should be ashamed of themselves.