Chelsea Handler came to mind, curiously, as I viewed Sheila E’s “The Glamorous Life” (1984) music video (below). Handler patronized herself in a recent Twitter video, “Day in the Life of a Childless Woman” (below). At least she knows herself to be a woman, something Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Jackson couldn’t – or wouldn’t – define. Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R, Tenn.) asked Jackson at her confirmation hearing, “Can you provide a definition for the word woman?” Jackson replied, “Can I provide a definition? No. I can’t.” Then added, “Not in this context, I’m not a biologist [see below].” Apparently, it’s not enough for Jackson to check herself while bathing. She needs somebody with a certificate to tell her. Bizarre.
Chelsea Handler’s “Day in the Life of a Childless Woman”:
Just another day. pic.twitter.com/Bf4cdBqunG
— Chelsea Handler (@chelseahandler) February 10, 2023
Sheila E’s “The Glamorous Life”:
Childlessness is not inherently either a virtue or failing. For some, it’s a matter of physical impairment or emotional comportment. For most, today, it’s a choice. Yet, simple common sense would demand the overriding importance of having another generation. The legacy of a civilization dies without youngins. Somebody must be having babies or else we’re stuck with collapsing entitlements and the soaring needs of the mounting aged as they descend into senility. Thank God somebody has made the sacrifice to provide the people who’ll change the bedpans for the doddering Chelsea Handler, childless, wrinkled, and alone.
Handler’s little clip includes the freedom to text a “hot guy” from some online dating app, “Wanna f%#*?” She’s free, but is she happy? Isn’t this behavior a bit dangerous? I’m reminded of the 1977 film, “Looking for Mr. Goodbar”, of a young woman who descends into the bar, casual hookup, and drug scene of the late 1970’s. It doesn’t end well for her: she’s murdered in her last hookup. The movie isn’t for the faint of heart.
And neither is Handler’s libertine jeremiad on Twitter. The thing that’s missing from her Twitter romp is love – not the platonic or sexual gratification kind, but the deeper intimacy that frequently leads to marriage and children. Prince, who composed “The Glamorous Life”, a man known for his own licentiousness, nonetheless contains the chorus:
“She wants to lead the glamorous life
But without love, it ain’t much”
If you understand the lyrics, the Chelsea lifestyle is “without love, [but] it ain’t much”. Love requires commitment, and no better commitment than marriage and the raising of children. On that score, Prince is right: without love, it ain’t much.
Check out the Handler Twitter clip, research “Looking for Mr. Goodbar”, and watch Sheila E’s “The Glamorous Life” music video and reference the lyrics as you do. How’s that for some cultural homework?
Here’s the full lyrics to “The Glamorous Life”:
She wears a long fur coat of mink
Even in the summer time
Everybody knows from the coy little wink
The girl’s got a lot on her mind
She’s got big thoughts, big dreams
And a big brown Mercedes sedan
What I think this girl
She really wants is to be in love with a man
She wants to lead the glamorous life
She don’t need a man’s touch
She wants to lead the glamorous life
But without love, it ain’t much
She saw him standing in the section marked
If you have to ask you can’t afford it lingerie
She threw him bread and said make me scream
In the dark what could he say
Boys with small talk and small minds
Really don’t impress me in bed
She said I need a man’s man baby
Diamonds and furs
Love would only conquer my head
She wants to lead the glamorous life
She don’t need a man’s touch
She wants to lead the glamorous life
Without love, it ain’t much
They made haste in the brown sedan
They drove to 55 Secret street
They made love by the seventh wave
She knew she had a problem
She thought real love is real scary
Money only pays the rent
Love is forever that’s all your life
Love is heaven sent, it’s glamorous
Lead the glamorous life
She don’t need a man’s touch
She wants to lead the glamorous life
Without love it ain’t much
She wants to lead the glamorous life
She don’t need a man’s touch
She wants to lead the glamorous life
Without love it ain’t much, it ain’t much
Lead the glamorous life
She don’t need a man’s touch
She wants to lead the glamorous life
Without love it ain’t much, it ain’t much
She wants to lead the glamorous life
She don’t need a man’s touch
She wants to lead the glamorous life
Without love it ain’t much, it ain’t much
Lead the glamorous life
She don’t need a man’s touch
She wants to lead the glamorous life
Without love it ain’t much, it ain’t much
Woo-ooh oo-ooh
She wants to lead the glamorous life
She don’t need a man’s touch
She wants to lead the glamorous life
Without love it ain’t much, it ain’t much
Oooh oo-ooh ohhh
(Songwriter: Prince Rogers Nelson)
(From: Musixmatch)
RogerG
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* Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Jackson’s strange inability, or unwillingness, to define a woman can be found here: “Biden Supreme Court pick says she can’t define what a ‘woman’ is when asked at confirmation hearings”, 3/23/2022, at https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/i-cant-define-what-a-woman-is-supreme-court-nominee-says/