SEX AND THE TOWN

Have you ever tried to keep a “Sex and the City” lifestyle in a small town? Have you realized how difficult it might be for a single, independent and, of course, intelligent woman in her thirties to try and be as cool, elegant and sexy as our dear Carrie, Charlotte, Samantha and Miranda if it happens that she lives not in “the City” but in “the Town”? Have you ever thought of that?

You might be thinking -and you might be right- that I’m a little foolish wasting my time wondering about such nonsense but, my dear readers, if as my friends and me, you find yourselves living in a small town, then, you know for sure that things are not always as you would expect them to be in “the City”. This is, it seems that men and women have nowadays the same rights and they are treated equally but, once you live in a town, you find out this is not always so.

A clear example happened to me this week. As many of you already know, my boyfriend is leaving for a while our “dear town” and…Can you believe many of our friends look at me as if I were crazy just because I’m not running after him? If he’s coming back in a few months, why should I give up my career in favour of his? Hello! Men, and especially women, of my lovely town and residents of every single small town or village in this world, these words are for you: WAKE UP! We are in the 21^st century. We have been taught to study, to get a career, to be independent from men and then, suddenly, once we grow up, we are supposed to leave all of that to go after a man?

I can’t help but wonder, aren’t we doing something wrong? What kind of message are we sending to our children? Actually, aren’t we telling our girls that in the end they will have to pick either having a career or having a relationship? Well, I don’t know what you think about this but, I can certainly tell you, I don’t agree at all with this contradictory teaching. Sorry, but just the idea of choosing because we are women gets on my nerves!

So, my dear neighbours, just in case you hadn’t noticed, this is the 21^st century, and I really think a woman can have both, her career and a great relationship. Hence, I just can add that we might love the series “Sex and the City” but, we definitely need a real “Sex and the Town”, don't you think so?