Is There Still Sex in the City? by Candace Bushnell

Author:Candace Bushnell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: House of Anansi Press Inc
Published: 2019-06-10T14:23:38+00:00

The Exploding Breast Implant and the Happily Unhappily Ever After Story

Take Ess. In many ways, her story is typical of a woman in MAM, with the exception that her MAM story takes place in the cushioned world of the 1 percent. Meaning, theoretically, Ess should always be able to afford a roof over her head.

Ess is not a paragon of female virtue, nor is she meant to be. She’s a representation of a certain kind of woman who does what society tells women they should do, who wants what society tells women they should want, and who’s found it’s best not to think too deeply about it.

Ess grew up in Southern New England in a large ranch house in a development of new houses. It was one of those places where everyone makes relatively the same income and enjoys a similar lifestyle and dresses in a similar manner, in clothing from the same outlet stores and catalogues.

Ess had two older brothers and a younger sister. Ess and one brother, Jimmy, got the looks. Her sister, who looked exactly like her mother, was considered the smart one. Ess was Daddy’s little girl. Like a lot of men in those days, Ess’s father was what would now be considered an alcoholic but back then was considered an “everyday drinker.” He returned from the office at five and threw back three G&Ts by the time Ess’s mother tried to make everyone sit down for dinner at six. Sometimes Dad’s drinking was a good thing. Sometimes not so good. When it wasn’t so good, Ess figured out that by amusing and entertaining her father she could jolly him out of his terrible mood and everyone in the family was silently grateful. This she figured out, was her job. Probably for life.

When she graduated from high school, Ess assessed her cards. She was tall and slim, with a figure that was labeled “athletic,” a euphemism for flat chested. Ess was a solid A cup.

This was a major bummer. Being flat chested was on the very top of the list of egregious female imperfections, above “fat,” “hairy,” and “fat and hairy.” Being flat chested was considered an abnormality, an insult to the male gender, the facts of which her brothers never tired of reminding her. They weren’t the only ones. All through tenth grade she’d been bullied by one particular boy about her lack of plentitude. He used to drive by her house on his motorcycle and shoot at her with his BB gun.

“Someday I’m gonna kill you,” he’d shout.

“It’s because he likes you and he doesn’t know how to express it,” her mother said, although Ess knew this was a lie. He really did hate her.

And as she looked at herself in the mirror, Ess realized there was a way to get revenge on that boy and all the others like him: become a model.

She succeeded. She worked a lot, enough to support herself in the world of money, drugs, and rock ’n’ roll where models could spend their time when they weren’t in front of the camera.

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