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Once upon a time, liberated and independent women all over the world rejoiced for the much-celebrated shows of Sex and the City. It was all about women celebrating their woman-ness and it was all about women making choices, whatever they would be. “Look baby, you have the power to do and be anything to want.”

Suddenly, everything seemed possible and being a woman didn’t seem to be so limited anymore. There was no limit in terms of what we could do and be. Those four women did it, so nothing was impossible anymore! Women could be workaholics and put careers on top of everything else like Miranda and it was fine! Women could have sex like a man and not involve their feelings like Sam! Women could stay old-fashioned and value the traditional merits like Charlotte or be a full on shoe-holics like Carrie! So many options, so little time!

And yet the media got tired of all these “independent women” running amok. It’s not interesting anymore. No gender to ridicule about. No discrimination against them because now they have this new-found perspective that they are just as capable as men and that the world is changing to suit and provide for them, not the other way around. It’s not realistic, they say. Women can’t both have careers and kids at the same time. Women can’t have sex like a man - it’s not in their genes. Women can’t stay unmarried forever.

And so Desperate Housewives was definitely the answer. Yes, women were desperate. In fact they had always been. “Show us something we can relate! None of this silly too-independent-women crap, it’s way too unobtainable to believe!” they cried. “What about us wedded women, it’s not all about the single ones out there!” cried out the moms. All of a sudden there were desperate women everywhere, confessing that they’d been living double-standard lives and torturing their families with their obsession of cleanliness, or women cheating on their husbands and self-confessing their addiction to sex and it was all over Oprah and Dr. Phil or maybe even Jerry Springer, spilling out of control like a clubbed over waterworks.

Then Pink came out all shocking in her new video clip “Stupid Girls”, ridiculing girls who flaunted their bodies and putting too much make up and simply loving themselves too much, saying that she couldn’t name any young female celebrity who was actually smart and there was simply no real role model out there for young girls to look up to. It wasn’t like it was the first time another female celebrity was stating that.

Wait a minute. What role model? Are you? What kind of role models do young girls actually need?

Someone charismatic like Abraham Lincoln or Denzel Washington, only the female versions? What about Condi Rice? Too harsh and fugly? Ok. Angelina Jolie? Fake boobs? No? Lindsay Lohan? Come on, a couple sessions of sticking your finger up your throat was definitely worth it if you could have a figure like her! What, even Carrie from Sex and the City is too slutty now? Okay, what about Britney? Oh hang on, we don’t even know whether or not she’s a virgin except… *gasp* Britney herself!

Women.

Women.

Women. You’ve come a long way now baby. But when will you ever be free?

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