Comments on: Inescapable

By: Selah March

Selah March — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:02:13 +0000

And…uh…that would be “Square PEGS,” not square pets. Although those are cute, too.

By: Barb Ferrer

Barb Ferrer — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:46:33 +0000

Yeah, you can add me to the list. And I went out to dinner on Friday and saw the same groups of women who certainly should’ve been old enough to know better in their matching black SatC tank tops and black capris and (no lie) matching pink sparkly flip flops and pedicures.

I openly stared. I may have mocked. And SJP shouldn’t be allowed to dress herself. Ever.

By: Kerry Allen

Kerry Allen — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:38:06 +0000

Yeah, some of the “fashion” blew my mind. It’s fashionable to look like a clown? I guess I’m too uncouth to appreciate the subtle distinction between “chic” and “freak.”

It reminded me of Waiting to Exhale, which I thought was an incredibly insulting portrayal of women in general and AA women in particular (same “we’re intelligent, accomplished, strong women… until we smell testosterone and morph into huge insatiable vaginas”), only years and years of it in series form. Blech.

By: Selah March

Selah March — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 12:36:48 +0000

So nice to know I’m not alone in my profound “WTF??” over this particular phenomenon.

I tried to give SJP the benefit of the doubt . I said to myself, “Self? You LOVED Square Pets. Footloose was a defining moment of your adolescence. Give the new series a try for nostalgia’s sake.”

So I did. Watched one episode. Recoiled in horror.

Then I caught an interview with SJP and found myself muttering, “When did you get to be the most pretentious twit on the planet? Sex in the City is NOT a beautiful flower growing in the soil of the audience’s love, and you should have your mommy dress you because that big-ass silk rose is STOOPID.”

Apparently, nostalgia can bite my ass.