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Entry: It's All About Her Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/its_all_about_her#28938 Post contents: Well, I mean, okay. In the spirit of interpretive charity, I think you're misinterpreting the line “Why is it that we’re willing to write our own vows but not our own rules?” The point is exactly that she _is_ listening to other people, and _not_ thinking about what a marital relation actually is: a unique arrangement between two people that has a distinctive public face without being public. When making her decisions, she included the wrong people, and excluded the person who should've mattered most. Also, "Even the ladies’ four-way friendship, supposedly the show’s moral center, involves so much confessional self-reflection that one is tempted to conclude that relationships with other people are only interesting insofar as they enable self-discovery." But isn't it only because Carrie is willing to tell Miranda that she thinks the latter made a mistake is dismissing Steve so quickly that she finally relents? The ability to receive loving criticism from a friend and see with something other than one's own eyes matters. No defense of Samantha, though. That one was just illogical. Sent at: 2008 12 02