Big Has A Case Of BMD

BMD=Brown Man Disease

It's nice to have 2 back to back episodes of Sex and the City every night, it's a fun show to watch over and over again. I am a super fan of "Big." He is the most debonair, urbane, charming human on the planet. BUT...he is all kinds of wrong. He treats Carrie like a play thing and toys with her emotions left and right, but she keeps going back! Look at the photo above: he's got his man drink (no ice), important man documents in a folder, and in his hand he's holding some sort of control! Damn.

We here at IHST discuss this idea of Brown Man Disease. We discussed Bob from La Bamba, an embodiment of this idea. Those with full blown BMD have a "I can ruin your life but you love me" quality about them. They have all kinds of internalized machismo growing like moss in their insides. Gross. Big may not be a self-identified brown man, but he has some major BMD symptoms. He is the one who needs to control the relationship, the ball is always in his court.

We will continue this discourse of BMD, it's something we are analyzing. This may be our graduate work, who knows...