Menopause and the City
Much has been made of the Sex and The City 2 and Samantha being peri-menopausal.
“Women our age shouldn’t joke about vitamins,” Samantha says.
“Women who are not our age shouldn’t say ‘women our age,’” quips Carrie.
“Well, one day very soon you will thank me,” notes Samantha. “I am leading the way through the menopause maze with my vitamins, my melatonin sleep patches, my estrogen cream, progesterone cream, a touch of testosterone… I’ve tricked my body into thinking it’s younger.”
At 52, the character really could have been past menopause transition. Here was a chance for her to present a dignified ”been there and conquered that” face to her friends (and the audience) but instead she is cast in a rather pathetic role of clinging to her youth with a “don’t want to go there at any price” attitude.
Which leaves the underlying message of this movie, with regard to menopause, being that menopausal women are no longer sexually viable (a view oft-held by many men not that they would admit to it). And Samantha clearly has bought into that message hence her rather desperate behavior.
I thought Samantha was supposed to be smarter than that. After all our greatest sexual organ is our brain.
