Wed. April 25
HBO’s “Girls” and the Wasteland of Sexual Promiscuity
In this piece for the Washington Times, I argue that HBO’s Girls is good for women. A response to Sex and the City, it honestly depicts the consequences of the hook-up culture–that “casual” sex degrades both men and women. Here’s an excerpt of my piece:
“Girls” will inevitably be compared to another HBO show about young women, “Sex and the City” (1998-2004). But “Girls” is less an extension of “Sex and the City” than it is a response to it — a tacit and even subversive acknowledgement that the sex lives of young post-feminist women are bleak.
Casual sex is not as fun and empowering as Carrie Bradshaw and her entourage of well-dressed friends made it out to be. These glamorous women taught a whole generation of girls that a woman can divorce sex from emotions “and just go out and have sex like a man” (in the words of Samantha Jones).
They taught women a lie.
“I felt like I was cruelly duped by much of the television I saw,” Miss Dunham told the New York Times last month.
You can read the full article here. Also, you can read my related blog post, “Sex in the Age of Post Feminism,” here.
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