Ladies & Gentlemen....Happy iPod Day (honestly, March 7 2008 marks the two year anniversary of the day when Apple officially patented the iPod) !!!!
Ashamedly so, I've been complacent in my blogging; I'm sitting on an ever-increasing queue of blog topics. And with each day, they become ever-increasingly irrelevant. Que sera sera...
......SO WHY STOP THERE?!!!
We interrupt our regularly scheduled programming to bring u....Cultural Invisbility: Sex and the City edition.
....Guten Tach, her true believers! My name is Jan-Nil A. Bonifacio....I go by alot of names though....JB. BJ. JD. PJ. People call me alot of names (a couple even to my face...lol). But today...you can call me Carrie----er, no, Carl Bradshaw ;) .
Everything that I know about women can be summed up from a scene off of one of my favorite movies of all time, the sociolinguistical masterpiece....
White Men Can't Jump.
...In this exchange of dialogue, Gloria Clemente (Rosie Perez) explains to Billy Hoyle (Woody Harrelson) about (one aspect of) the difference between rapport talk and report talk:
Gloria: Honey? My mouth is dry. Honey. I'm thirsty.
Billy: Umm... [ Water Runs ] There you go. honey.
Gloria: When I said I was thirsty, it doesn't mean I want a glass of water.
Billy: It doesn't?
Gloria: You're missing the whole point of me saying I'm thirsty. If I have a problem, you're not supposed to solve it. Men always make the mistake of thinking they can solve a woman's problem. It makes them feel omnipotent.
Billy: Omnipotent? Did you have a bad dream?
Gloria: It's a way of controlling a woman.
Billy: Bringing them a glass of water? 
Gloria: Yes. I read it in a magazine. See... if I'm thirsty.....I don't want a glass of water. I want you to sympathize. I want you to say. ''Gloria. I. TOO. Know what it feels like to be thirsty. I. TOO. Have had a dry mouth.'' I want you to connect with me through the sharing and understanding the concept...of dry mouthedness.
Billy:....This is all in the same magazine?
2 comments:
If I tell a guy that I'm thirsty, it's because I'm hoping he'll do something about it. Not because I particularly care if he knows what it's like to be thirsty, too. If he's thirsty he'll get himself a glass of water too, while he's getting mine.
Maybe you should watch some real Sex & the City. I do consider it the Bible, myself.
phew! That is a relief.
I agree. That makes sense.
i.e. I'm thirsty > "I need water."
i.e. A > B > C etc, etc.
I just don't buy into this notion of
A > M > 2....lol.
if you know what i mean.
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