Posted on 11/21/2004 3:58:00 AM PST by johnny7
I'M NOT supposed to like "Desperate Housewives." It's either post-feminist or pre-feminist. It's too racy or too retro. It's either an example of the backlash or a product of the cultural collapse. The "DH" steaminess has the American Family Association railing against its sex in the suburbs. The "DH" locker room promo on "Monday Night Football" has the FCC in wardrobe malfunction mode.
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She chose her own miserable single childless life and now that her biological clock has run down she is jealous of all mothers.
Ms. Goodman is insufferable.
No offence Johnny, but couldn't you have come up with some slightly better as an analysis. This is pretty crude and IMHO gives Freepers a bad name. There are many more smart ways to tear apart Ms Goodman. What you have here is almost worthy of the DU though.
Goodman joins in the celebration of the American woman as whore.
Dittoes!
Actually only one of the characters is unfaithful. One is the suffering ex, one is the stepford wife and the other is the career woman-cum-mom. You've Got Ms. Playgirl, Ms. Martyr, Ms. Perfect and Ms. SuperWoman. A gallery of every woman cliches. I'm amazed this show is even a ratings hit.
It may not be a very Christian thought on a Sunday morning, but I can't help but think that Ellen Goodman's mother should *certainly* have had the RU486 pill available to her.
What a waste of skin, oxygen, and random neurons.
She and Maureen Dowd and Molly Ivans et al should start the Bitter B*tch Association, for feminists who have made unnatural choices throughout their lives and now loudly complain that things are not going their way. I suppose we should pity them, but they don't make it easy.
So how often do you get to see the kids?
Housewives? Who imagined a soap opera about housewives would be popular? Not the NOW NAGs, that's for sure.
I'm a single guy. But we men can still find fascination in what women do when we're away at work. So I guess that's why DH appeals to men as well as women. There's curiosity in what the other sex does all day.
PROOF: NOT ONE WORD IN THE BOSTON GLOBE ON PRESIDENT BUSH'S RESCUE OF HIS SS AGENT LAST NIGHT.
I ahvent seen this show I have seen the "Forum " and gone away gagging and throwing up.
Yes... especially about the death of the friend in the pilot episode. Why did she die? No one knows and her friends keep looking for answers. It seems like a simple suicide but there's more to it and every episode we learn a little more about the deceased but we never see the whole picture and neither do the characters in the quaint little suburb of Wisteria.
"She's saying, yes, you can want to be at home and still admit to going nuts at 5 p.m. Yes, you can be fiercely in love with your children and long to pack up the minivan and drive off. Yes, you can be dedicated to doing the right thing and not at all sure you're doing it."
I usually disagree with her, but this is priceless. I love the show. It's quirky and funny and absolutely far removed from my life, but she nails it.
As the mother of a house full of boys, there were times, especially when they were just starting to run to 11 years old that I could have cheerfully put them in a closet and nailed the door shut by 5:00. Heck, by 3:00!
Boys fight. They run. They tease each other. They throw stuff, jump on the furniture, one of mine (the brightest one btw), even took a sheet and jumped out of a tree to see if he could make a parachute (broken arm). They jumped ramps like Evel Kneival (broken arm), make forts in the woods, and bring home stray animals they expect to keep.
Too bad it didn't last. They became adolescents and that's when you really need a strong lock on a closet.
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