Cashmere Mafia...again

I just saw my first Cashmere Mafia episode. And, unlike last time, I will be bashing the show after having actually seen it! For those of you who don't know about it yet, Cashmere Mafia is supposed to be a follow-up to Sex and the City of sorts. The show is about four girlfriends living in New York City and holding very high positions in some major companies.

Now, I know it's a bit too soon to be making overarching generalizations after having seen just one episode, but I will say it anyway: the show is terribly superficial and extremely predictable. If you've seen Sex and the City, Desparate Housewives and/or Gossip Girl, you would not be able to be surprised in any way. The authors seemed to be so influenced by the above-mentioned shows that at some points in the episode you kind of start wondering why Carrie Bradshow's voice sounds different. Also, everyone is like...obsessed with this Gawker-type blog...All I've got to say about that is: XO-XO. Whatever, though. We all like watching movies and tv shows that are pretty much identical copies of other things we've seen before...so no hard feelings there.

What did scare me though was the blatant sexism in the way the main characters are portrayed. OK. So they are all supposed to be these super serious, educated, insanely successful professional women and, still, they are:

1. Immature: One of the women's husbands is cheating on her. Her friends sees him making out with another woman and tells her. What does she do?! She decides that the best thing to do is get even and cheat on HIM. Well...not that I know much about script-writing but I'm thinking...isn't this what the character would do in some other show?! I mean...if she really WAS the character that she is supposed to be, she would not be acting like a snotty high-school student who wants to win over her boyfriend by making him jealous. Or...would she?!

2. Superficial: Throughout most of the episode, one of the women is worrying like crazy about ONE zit that she got on her otherwise flawless face. At some point she even considers leaving the office and going home. WTF?!

3. Pathetic: Mia, played by Lucy Liu, has been left at the alter by her fiance. We are led to believe that he had been feeling threatened by her success. After the split, they stop talking. Mia's reaction: she does not tell her parents about it for two weeks AND dedicates her first column as editor-in-chief of Modern Man magazine to telling him (The Modern Man) that he should not be afraid of the Modern Woman. Jack and I, she says, we will need to begin communicating through the pages of the magazine. I say: Apparently Modern Woman over there is stuck in the Victorian era and her shyness does not allow her to face her problems and look for their adequate solutions.

In other words, the moral of the series is simple: don't worry about it, dudes, even if some women do manage to make if very high up in the corporate hierarchy, they are just as dumb and idiotique as the rest of them. Yes, they are in the BIG office but their existance there is only nominal, because apparently they cannot get over their personal dramas and act like grown-ups.

I am so terribly sad and disappointed.