Sex and the Other City
The first rule of television seems to be: if something works once, do it again. Sarah Jessica Parker’s production company has reportedly optioned the novel Prospect Park West to turn into a TV show. The book, by former sex columnist Amy Sohn, who also wrote the companion book for HBO’s Sex and the City, chronicles…
The first rule of television seems to be: if something works once, do it again. Sarah Jessica Parker’s production company has reportedly optioned the novel Prospect Park West to turn into a TV show. The book, by former sex columnist Amy Sohn, who also wrote the companion book for HBO’s Sex and the City, chronicles the lives, urges, and dissatisfactions of four Park Slope mothers. Here’s how The Post summed it up this morning: “The book creates a scathing portrait of Park Slope’s mommy brigade — of which Sohn is a breast-feeding member — as a parade of unsatisfied thirty- and forty-something moms sizing up their plights relative to all the other stroller-pushers at the playground. Few are having sex — at least not with their spouses.” It’s definitely the Sex and the City formula, but who knows if it will take off? Gawker asks the more important question: will it ruin Park Slope? There is already a festoon of strollers; will Berkeley Place now be clogged with red double-decker buses?
Sarah Jessica Parker’s Sex & the Stroller Set Show [Gawker]
Treading on a Slippery Slope [NY Post]
Is Prospect Park West the New SATC? [BuzzSugar]
DIBS: no problem! There seems to be a lot of gender confusion on this blog…. And no, your cat remark would *not* be fair to say.
i dont know about that dave. in general i find most cats to not really be good mothers at all. dogs on the hand are very nurturing and loving to their young. it seems like cats just poop out a litter and run off with the next baby daddy cat they can find!
*rob*
So would it be fair to say that cats make better mothers to their kittens than PS moms do to their kids??
Are any of you actual mothers? As in, raising/remember raising a child? Most of the hot chicks you see in Manhattan are not mothers. Most of the mommies you see in Park Slope are raising children. And if they don’t work, they likely don’t have nannies. And if they do work, they are very busy during their off-hours from work-outside-the-home.
My hot chick days have been over for decades, but guys, I think you are being unrealistic.
That is not to say that I don’t have (ahem) issues with the parenting techniques displayed. But having fulfilled their darwinian/god-given obligation to propagate the species, they care a lot less about looking hot and a lot more about raising said species, however poor their technique may be.
Park Sloper, I thought you were a man. Neither here nor there but sorry.
As a Park Slope mom myself, I really don’t understand all the hype about the highly competitive parenting environment, and the stay-at-home versus working-mom stuff, and all that. Raising my child in the neighborhood, we just lived our lives. I mean, honestly, who cares what other families are doing?
> That being said, as a PS Dad…
I don’t know why, but I always imagine that fsrg was female.
Guess those Sloper dads are indeed femmy after all.
Though I fondly remember many PS DILFs.
PS moms are not ugly. But it’s true they don’t try hard to look coiffed, stylish or fashionable. I’ve always thought it was connected to the mom guilt thing. Of course some women don’t spend money and time on themselves because they truly feel guilty about it as it’s in short supply in their house, and some do it so they appear to be self-sacrificing. Park Slope is a highly competitive parenting environment. There it’s about trying to appear a better mommy by never wearing makeup. It’s more calculated. Because they certainly have nannies and do make time for weekly if not biweekly yoga classes. There’s also the crunchy granola culture factor of PS to blame. The question is how does SJP who loves fashion manage to portray the true culture of PS in this PPW series? Because if her characters are super fashionable wearing sky-high heels it won’t be accurate in the slightest!
(I like big butts and I cannot lie!)
That’s about all I have to contribute to this compelling discussion. Please continue.