JUDITH WARNER: Glass Slippers? Old Hat

Glass Slippers? Old Hat

March 10, 2007
Guest Columnist
By JUDITH WARNER

We were laid out on the couch the other weekend, stopped in our tracks by an unforeseen afternoon broadcast of “Maid in Manhattan,” when an important moment of sociological revelation arose.

Ralph Fiennes’s character, the Senate candidate Christopher Marshall, and Jennifer Lopez’s Marisa Ventura, a hotel maid mistaken by Marshall for a socialite, locked eyes for a searing moment. “I only came to tell you that this, you and me, can’t go anywhere beyond this evening,” J. Lo said.

“Well then,” purred the man best known for his impersonation of a sadistic Nazi, “you should’ve worn a different dress.”

“Why’d he say that?” asked my daughter Emilie, who is nearly 7.

“He said that,” I answered, “because he is arrogant. He’s a man who’s used to getting his way. He figures that he knows better than she does why she’s wearing that dress.”

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Sweet musings from a concerned Mother ... Listen my little sisters, "Run, girls, run for your lives!! Swim with the dolphins and fly with the eagles ... leave all dim marital prospects behind." ... ;-)

What's the answer then?

Long term for society, etc. - not for the individual?

Is there a burden on society to try and seek remedy for this trend in the long run?

I'd advise her NOT to participate in any trend ... that her greatest contribution to herself, and therefore to society, would be made by being totally independent of this conversation ... pass ... no thank you ... do not limit yourself or your options by tying yourself to anyone ...