Comments on: Sex and the City Not Just for Women

By: kicka

kicka — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 06:08:30 +0000

I think that this was a great movie….. it reminds the womon out there who have been endlessly hurt that there is still hope. Look at Carrie she was hurt how many times? Yet she still found love and it was Mr.Right! Charlotte’s marrige…its no different than the marrages today. She works at it everyday during ups and downs. Samantha she just knows how to have fun. Like many wemon do. I mean how many can say they havent been like samantha every now and then. As for Miranda thats just another woman who deals with the hardships of being married and what goes along with that. These wemon all together do what many of us wish we could do sometimes. Go out and remember the single life when we had it. It shows the power wemon have. And the even stronger power of 4 wemon who were friends through the thick and thin.

By: What Would Toto Watch? » ‘Sex’ is for men, too

What Would Toto Watch? » ‘Sex’ is for men, too — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:57:50 +0000

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Sun, 06 Jul 2008 14:10:26 +0000

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By: samule dhalgren

samule dhalgren — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 04:37:46 +0000

That show was stupid and immoral.

By: shrike

shrike — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:06:43 +0000

I’ve seen very little of that show, but I did see one scene that kind of stuck.

Samantha (I think) was doing some kind of striptease or lingerie show at a firehall. The firemen are all hooting and hollering enjoying the show. Then the alarm goes off and suddenly she’s either ignored or pushed aside as the firemen rush to work. Then she’s left standing there in her underwear looking very old and forlorn.

By: Waller

Waller — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 00:31:37 +0000

Chris,

That reminds me of an article I once read (sorry, no idea where to find it). The author said that SATC WAS originally intended to be a story about a bunch of gay guys.

For whatever reason, they thought they would have less problems telling homosexual stories if the characters weren’t actually gay. (Not sure I quite understand this myself). So the show ended up being a story about male homosexuality substituting female characters behaving like gay men.

At least this was supposedly how it started out. I’m sure it probably developed a different tone once it became a hit.

Don’t know whether to believe it or not, but that’s the rumor. Interesting, I didn’t know the Simpsons had mentioned it.

By: chris

chris — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 00:36:30 +0000

Even Marge Simpson has recognized the secret to Sex and the City. “That’s the show about four women acting like gay guys,” she said in a recent episode of The Simpsons. She’s always been a thinker, that Marge.

Turn in you man card.

By: AG

AG — Sat, 31 May 2008 23:02:53 +0000

If the women of this show were “actually” attractive, I think more guys would watch. The only one I would consider sleeping with is the dark-haired girl. Cattral is too old and I would be too afraid of catching something, Carrie is skinny, unattractive, and neurotic, and I have had some law professors who look better than the red head….which is very pathetic.

I have seen the show once, all I saw was 4 women running around shopping, screwing, and telling stories about it.

And the comparisons to “The Sopranos” do not hold. The life of a mobster is clearly abstract; most guys can’t relate to the decision of whether or not to whack somebody. Therefore, the influence is not that great.

On the other hand, fans of SATC tout the multiple similarities and multiple points of relatability as their resons for liking the show. Therefore, the influence is likely to be great since the viewers will probably be confronted with similar situations as the characters in the show.

By: Mars vs Hollywood

Mars vs Hollywood — Sat, 31 May 2008 20:32:34 +0000

“Samantha was cute when she was young I am sure, but now she looks like she has been rode hard and put up wet – which we all know she has been.”

I will always have a soft spot for Kim Cattrall because of “Big Trouble in Little China”.

By: Jim Rockford

Jim Rockford — Sat, 31 May 2008 20:07:39 +0000

The show HAS a strong middle school and high school girl fanbase. Yes. You read right. Partly due to the TBS “sanitized” re-runs (they took out the explicit sex) and partially due to the HBO run (middle schoolers would watch it on demand when they got home).

I don’t know what is worse for young girls, the materialism and rampant consumerism and luxury good fetish, the idea of marrying-up to wealth, or the seize the day attitude towards sexuality.

Women are not men. There’s a reason the saw says divide a man’s claimed sexual partners by three and multiply a woman’s by three. Men and women have different ways of evaluating potential sex partners and potential mates. Neither are done any favors by encouraging a consumerist approach to sex. But it’s probably far worse for young women.

I think shows/movies about women looking for love, making dramatic choices, living with consequences, and understanding basic truths about how men and women interact and marry, is pretty exciting. Jane Austen mined that vein and is popular hundreds of years later. But SaTC, written by mostly gay men and encapsulating a gay man’s idea of a woman (particularly Samantha) isn’t it.