Thursday, November 8, 2012

Chuck Lorre Productions, #398

It's always interesting to read the ramblings of Chuck Lorre after each episode of TBBT. Tonight's was especially entertaining to me. 

Chuck Lorre Productions, #398

I need to apologize. In an earlier vanity card I made a derisive comment about a popular reality show because I thought its premise-a group of single women compete with one another to win the affections of, and ultimately marry, an eligible man-was more threatening to the sanctity of marriage than gay people tying the knot. After careful consideration, I now realize that I couldn't have been more wrong. My mistake was that I was looking at the show through the tired old eyes of 60's feminism. But we are clearly in a post-feminist era. The patriarchal sexism that treated women as chattel and dictated how much they could earn or how much control they could have over their own bodies is a thing of the past, a curious relic of a dark, unenlightened times. Likewise, the idea that a woman without a man was somehow incomplete has long ago been consigned to the overflowing dustbin of humankind's misbegotten thinking. Women are now free to do anything they want, and that includes going on a reality show and using all their female wiles to snag Mr. Right. 

I really don't know what else to say, "I'm sorry and, um...you go, girl!"

 Oh the beauty of it all crumbling upon itself.

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