Cathy getting married?

[Doctor Q]

I guess we no longer need the question mark on the title of this thread!

 

[wdlove]

That's a beautiful wedding Doctor Q, it brings tears to the eye. Wonder where the honeymoon will occur? Now Cathy and Irving can celebrate their first Valentine's Day as a happily married couple. Such an emotional and sentimental moment.

 

[rueyeet]

I'm shocked that that comic is still running. For some reason I'm not entertained by a character who's a whiny, neurotic woman desperate to get a man.

That's not the entire problem. Sex and the City was the same basic thing, at least as far as Carrie's character went, but the show handled it with some degree (debatable, I'll admit) of wit and perspective.

Cathy's not just whiny and neurotic, she's thoroughly mundane. And she presents a negatively stereotyped picture of womanhood that you could assemble from focus groups: overwhelmed by her job, dominated by her mother, frustrated by her body image, and confused by her love life. She never triumphs over anything, takes control of anything, or wins at anything. She seems to exist merely to be sheepish and pathetic, taking her only consolation from the insinuation that all of her audience are just like her.

Personally, I find that insinuation insulting. And I expect the depiction of her marriage to Irving to be more of the same.