Tuesday, January 11, 2005

CALLING IT QUITS

I've had about enough of Everwood. While I was away I taped an ep which starts with Andy Brown freaking out because his 11 year old daughter was caught kissing in a closet during her birthday party. Lisa says that according to the New York Times (so it must be true), at 13 year old's birthday parties in Manhattan, they're giving blowjobs. Certainly the girls I grew up with lost their virginities at 14 and 15. And he's upset at kissing? How did this guy survive in New York? (He didn't, he moved to Colorado.)

It's getting hard to put up with this show, which seems so anxious to turn back the clock on the sexual revolution. At least, Treat Williams' character is. There was another show where Andy Brown flipped out because his son (who last year got a girl knocked up) was planning to have (safe) sex with his long time girlfriend for the first time. Is this a conscious effort to go back to Father Knows Best, or is it an insidious liberal plot to paint parents who want their kids to stay chaste through high school as utterly insane?

Well, come back at me when Jesse Anne's a teenager but I hope I'm not freaked out if she turns out to have sexual desires before college. Just so she doesn't take rides from Kennedies.

10:35 PM

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