Where There’s Smoke…

Season 3: Episode 31 – Carrie wondered, “Do women just want to be rescued?”

Of course women want to be rescued. It is ingrained in us from the time we were all young. I blame the fairy tales and Disney movies; they taught us that all women just want to be rescued. We learned about fairy tales at a young age, take Rapunzel for example. She had to be rescued, and only a particular guy could come save her. According to this story, women just need a man to come save them.

Could these tales have anything to do with why women want to be rescued? As a teenager, I just wanted to be rescued from my parent’s house. I wanted my boyfriend to come rescue me from my “hell” at home. We all wanted to leave, rebel against our parents, the first person who could save us, was usually our boyfriends.

In some cases, women needed to then be rescued from their boyfriends, but that is another story. Women are constantly in need of being rescued, but why does a man have to be the one to rescue us? Why can’t we rescue ourselves? A straight male says, “Only women who are insecure want to be rescued.” Considering the amount of insecure women, there must be millions who need to be rescued. A friend of mine recently was in need of being rescued, but of course she relied on a man to do it for her. Since then she has been left a lone and jobless. She needs to rescue herself now, because relying on a man to do it, only led to abandonment.

An optimist might say that being rescued is romantic. Prince Charming can come sweep you off your feet any day, and save you. But I say, when it comes to being rescued, I rather be left out there to die, or drown or whatever the case may be.

Where There's Smoke originally aired June 4, 2000. For more information on the episode click on the link below:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0698701/