Sex and the City
“Sex & the City”
Some of you know this is perhaps one of the most favorite show of my girlfriend, her girlfriend/sisters/etc. And I’m willing to bet, the favorite show of some of the women you know and will know (some might even own the Episodes). I watched few of those shows as to understand what is the big hoopla and why some women love it.
I came to the realization that it is a show that portrait four matured (upper 30s and early 40s) single women that happen to be career oriented, with lot of money, and extravagant fashion. Some kind of feminist show, I might add. The show portrait those 4 women as the type of women that go through relationships, make fun of men, and go back to relationships.
The sad thing is that many women view the four characters as heroines and claim the show is an accurate representation of “independent women”.
However, I have a different conclusion based on watching the show from a non-bias perspective.
I learned that the show is actually about four sluts that all they do is whine and cry about the men that are doing them. And in some many cases, they make fun of those men. However, when the women are alone, they seem desperate and very lonely. In fact, they rely on each other to combat that loneliness.
The show also sends subtle messages that for some reason the female viewers have not seen.
I remember watching this episode in which there was some party and there was only one woman without a partner. She was an executive for some publishing magazine that I believe one of the four women (Carrie?) work. This woman was in her 50s, lonely, and trying to hit on Carrie’s boyfriend (he was in his 50s and super rich). The woman says that it is not fair that Carrie is with a man that is her (the Executive’s) age. She complained by saying that if she is successful and a 50-something woman that there was a small pool of available/worthy men. And she whined that Carrie was swimming in that pool.
THAT is the real message of the show. THAT episode is the “money episode” in my mind. The one that stuck to my mind. I admit that I watched no more than 10 episodes and I watch them sparsely.
I know one of the four girls ended up marrying a man that didn’t care for sex. Divorced him and ended up with an AFC that was ugly and wimpy. Another got pregnant from this geek that happened to be her friend. She in fact became a single-mother in her upper 30s. Another continued to be a slut in her mid-40s and soon realizing that there were younger women (e.g. she was realizing that she would be put on the shelf). And the Carrie one was dumped by that Super Rich guy and ended up with a man that was married.
And it amazes me how women view at these 4 lonely and unhappy sluts as an example of women that are empowered.
“Sex & the City”
Some of you know this is perhaps one of the most favorite show of my girlfriend, her girlfriend/sisters/etc. And I’m willing to bet, the favorite show of some of the women you know and will know (some might even own the Episodes). I watched few of those shows as to understand what is the big hoopla and why some women love it.
I came to the realization that it is a show that portrait four matured (upper 30s and early 40s) single women that happen to be career oriented, with lot of money, and extravagant fashion. Some kind of feminist show, I might add. The show portrait those 4 women as the type of women that go through relationships, make fun of men, and go back to relationships.
The sad thing is that many women view the four characters as heroines and claim the show is an accurate representation of “independent women”.
However, I have a different conclusion based on watching the show from a non-bias perspective.
I learned that the show is actually about four sluts that all they do is whine and cry about the men that are doing them. And in some many cases, they make fun of those men. However, when the women are alone, they seem desperate and very lonely. In fact, they rely on each other to combat that loneliness.
The show also sends subtle messages that for some reason the female viewers have not seen.
I remember watching this episode in which there was some party and there was only one woman without a partner. She was an executive for some publishing magazine that I believe one of the four women (Carrie?) work. This woman was in her 50s, lonely, and trying to hit on Carrie’s boyfriend (he was in his 50s and super rich). The woman says that it is not fair that Carrie is with a man that is her (the Executive’s) age. She complained by saying that if she is successful and a 50-something woman that there was a small pool of available/worthy men. And she whined that Carrie was swimming in that pool.
THAT is the real message of the show. THAT episode is the “money episode” in my mind. The one that stuck to my mind. I admit that I watched no more than 10 episodes and I watch them sparsely.
I know one of the four girls ended up marrying a man that didn’t care for sex. Divorced him and ended up with an AFC that was ugly and wimpy. Another got pregnant from this geek that happened to be her friend. She in fact became a single-mother in her upper 30s. Another continued to be a slut in her mid-40s and soon realizing that there were younger women (e.g. she was realizing that she would be put on the shelf). And the Carrie one was dumped by that Super Rich guy and ended up with a man that was married.
And it amazes me how women view at these 4 lonely and unhappy sluts as an example of women that are empowered.