okay, after watching every single american-or british, mind you- tv series there is actually worth watching, -i am talking about 'fringe' mixed with 'six feet under' and a twist of 'big bang theory' among others less endowed-, i figured, sex and the city. ( I can't believe I am writing this down, damn you hbo!)
Yup! the series. 1998 and the glorious cult
sparkle. There is nothing the love for ridiculously expensive shoes, pointless
satisfying for about half an hour sex , and luxurious post modern female drama
can't cure.
I know, it feels like a cheap shot but
that is what insomnia does to you, and honestly, for once, I would like to
indulge my ‘girly girl’ version without guilt just for the sake of curiosity,
to see what will come of it.
Basically, the whole series tiptoes around the
traditional goal of every woman's life; to find a man. First obvious question, why do we need a man? Because we do
not want to be alone. However is it really deep rooted in our genes the impulse
to take care of someone ( the impulse to try and change the people around us,
to try and nurture them into what we want them to be, i.e. men., bloody
maternal instincts if you ask me) or is it just more of an unconscious
obligation impregnated in the minds of women by social standards? I mean, is it
'wrong' and out of the ordinary to be perfectly fine being alone? At first, I’d
say yes from the point of view that supports that we are first and foremost
social beings and have certain logical tendencies to 'reach out' to our equals
and seek companionship in whatever form. But again, companionship may come in
two or more people. Why that one person, that 'special friend' of a man or a woman is superior to everyone else
in one's life. Can you share your heart with only one person? I don't think
that spiritual monogamy is an
approved term. So, the big question, is any kind of monogamy an approved term
for the human kind? I think that all women would very much like to know why
monogamy is so difficult for some men when to women it comes more naturally.
What is it? Is it something about our hormones that makes women fall in love
harder and out of it more brutally whereas men's range of feelings is half the
one of females? So, it comes down to biology. We are who we are and we are different
and we are twisted, with the super special addition that we have minds to
realize it. Men are built in other ways than women. Where do they fit with one
another though, if a man, being a man, and a woman, being a woman, function,
think, and feel differently?
Halfway through the second season of the series
awoke this sudden terror in me that i might end up alone. But hey, I am 18
years old, isn't it too melodramatic, and well stupid, to have such a crisis
now?
i have enjoyed being single. i practically only
know how not to be single with two or three people, not generally. Meaning, I
don't know dating rules and all the philosophies concerning it that you hear
other women proudly consult you with. All i know so far is that boys are stupid. And clearly so, because in
biology they teach us that the Y chromosome is shorter than X. So males have
less DNA than women. Okay, I know this is a ridiculous argument but as far as
the women of the world are concerned my point is legit.
it is not a question of
whether we die alone or not. Who cares? You are dying, what's the difference
when someone is holding you hand dearly while it happens. In seconds you will
be gone. And the memory of your loneliness or of your lover’s embraces is going
to be nothing but scattered particles of dirt in the air while they bury your
coffin. Your waking days are the only ones concerned. Well, and nights.
I suppose, that one person in
our lives is superior to the others not in the spiritual exchange process, but
in the physical competition. Sex. Because that is as much important as the
exercise of the mind that 'your person' provides you with. Unfortunately, women
during sexual intercourse produce certain hormones that mess up everything.
Literally. Feelings and shit that crown the sexual partner with the title of
the emotional dominatrix of the relationship. Men only experience pleasure.
In greek there is a very
beautiful word, hēdonismos, which practically
means pleasure but is much more powerful. Some months ago I was reading Oscar
Wilde, so naturally, I was thinking about hedonism and the norm of ‘psychological hedonism’, the direct
derivative of human ‘psychological
egoism’ intertwined with the common instincts of self preservation. If you
don’t understand what the f I am talking about, Google it. Or stop reading. It
dictates that all that human beings naturally seek out is pleasure. Pleasure minus pain squared.
"All men desire only satisfaction."
"Satisfaction of what?"
"Satisfaction of their desires."
"Their desires for what?"
"Their desires for satisfaction."
"Satisfaction of what?"
"Their desires."
"For what?"
"For satisfaction" ad infinitum.
Furthermore, a thought constantly bugging my
mind throughout the series was, what is the role of a woman today? what does
being a woman mean? It means, what being a woman in the 20’s was plus what
being a man in the 20’s was. Really all we, women, managed to do is load our
backs with more responsibilities and expectations and shit. Don’t get me wrong,
I am beyond grateful about my rights and my freedom as firstly a woman, and
secondly as just another human being, but not everyone seems as grateful. Women
are still displayed in magazine covers as if their clothes wear them instead of
being worn, and we all grow up with our goals balancing between becoming
beautiful, charming, successful, maternal, sexy, independent, good wives, good
cooks, good hostesses, good in bed. One cannot hope to be all that. Not because one cannot, but because if one
would actually attain all that, she would have a severe case of multiple
personality disorder and would then also have to become a good psych patient.
I think, and I am not sure, I have lost sense
of where I was getting at.
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