Here is my Portland, Oregon response to Sex And The City: The Movie. It is Green Girls Take On CRAG. Read it to see what I mean. My Green Girls social circle has more fun and is more joyful, I suggest, than the characters in the hit HBO series.
Why do I think that? We green women of the West are bonding with the land as well as each other, and a sensible lifestyle that flows from love of the land. The women in SATC have no connection to the earth, and are consuming at a rate that 50 planets could not support. Research, including that of Juliet Schor (a brilliant woman of the East Coast, Harvard to be exact) is clear that more consumption does not lead to more happiness.
Even given the fantasy nature of entertainment, I think the women in SATC are irresponsible. I don’t know anyone who wants to be like them. But Portland is, after all, a green enclave, a city-state of its own. Please post a comment to broaden my earthy-wonky perspective.
photo courtesy of hagit_.
what a wonderful post and a great message!
The SATC women are glittering, but this is a fast-food. The conncetion to the earth is indeed important and is acutally the basis of a woman (Mother-earth principle).
thank you for this statement!
I’ve never watched SATC but I do know that people with all the trappings of material success are often much less contented and in tune with the world around them than people who have less. Green Girls definitely do better. Edinburgh is quite a green place too.
I completely disagree with you (and I happen to live in Portland). Who wouldn’t want to be like the SATC girls?! They have fabulous, exciting lives. And consumption definitely leads to happiness!! Everbody has different persepectives and life experiences, but for some, including me, I would trade gladly move to NYC to live like Carrie and Co.
Dena,
Thanks for writing. I summarized your thoughts to my friend Richard, who looked at me and said, “Wasn’t she being tongue-in-cheek?”
“No,” I said. The next day I shared your feelings with my friend Colleen, who gave me a similar look and said, “She was kidding, right?”
“No,” I replied.
The good thing here is that we’re being exposed to each others’ differing views.
– Alison