Carrie Bradshaw was not good looking enough for her dating life

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Anonymous wrote:Insufferable, annoying, fake and hideous "theatre girl" energy. Famous men may have dated her but only because she was a famous actress, not because she's attractive (she's not...at all). JFK Jr was a known dipshit layabout who was desperate to be famous for nothing before being famous for nothing was taken to new levels by Paris Hilton and the Kardashians. Look who SJP actually married...

She was in theater obviously so it makes sense she might have some of that "energy." There's no way for you to be able to assess the intentions of her former boyfriends btw. Finally, regarding her husband....a reminder that he was a cute little Hottie in his day too and in addition to being a respected actor and sharing that interest, he comes from a prominent family, he father was also a well respected actor.

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Carrie Bradshaw is a character in a book/show.

And SJP is an actress playing a role. Do people need to look like their character?

There are plenty of actors/actresses who don’t look like their character. Is that really an issue? We know they aren’t actually the character they are playing.

Or maybe OP just wants to rag on SJP’s looks? Gross.

[Anonymous]

This is a ridiculous thread.

Personality goes a long way in attraction. Carrie Bradshaw was vivacious and witty and engaging and had a personality. She wasn't a bland model with a pretty face.

Believe it or not, many men are attracted to personality over beauty. But let's play this game. The very wealthy Mr. Big could have any models he wanted with a snap of his fingers. But he knows most are dull and boring and aren't at his intelligence level. Then he meets Carrie, who's strikingly different from all the usual boring beautiful and groomed women in his life. She stands out.

That's definitely attraction.

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Anonymous wrote:I think it’s weird how so many women want to trash her looks rather than celebrating her for working with what she has. would you prefer only classically beautiful people get opportunities? So weird

Sorry but what is there to celebrate about her? Her character was shallow, materialistic, unhealthy (with the chain smoking and borderline alcoholism), gold digging while being a financial mess, high maintenance, and annoying. The fact that she was fashionable and had an arguably interesting sex column may be redeeming to some, but she is not a role model and I am sad that people see her as one.

I hope you are not serious! You just did a judgmental assessment of the character she played on SATC when the thread is actually about what the actress SJP looks like! Then you said you are sad people see "her" as a role model. Who? SJP or Carrie and her chain smoking and gold digging?

DP. I can keep sjp separate from Carrie and no, nobody looked to Carrie as a role model. She was fascinating, kinda like Parker Posey as Party Girl? We shlubs couldn't pull it off (plus we were wayyyy too Type A responsible trying to pay off student loans and go to work (well refreshed and in different clothes) every day as a new associate at a firm or whatever). So the lifestyle was an escape for us. I think she was perfect for the part but as for SJP I do wish she had removed that chin mole or whatever, just because it was distracting in hi-def. But whatevs. We all have flaws.

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Anonymous wrote:If she could land JFK Jr in real life she could snag the dudes on that show.

Exactly. This show was definitely not real life but it strived to make the characters somewhat “real”. Not everyone is model attractive and those women weren’t pretending to be models.

I was going to mention the JFK connection too. My husband and I have had discussions about SJP before because he think she’s absolutely hideous while I would have given my right arm to look like her back in the day. All of most popular girls in HS and post college had a SJP thing about them. And, I agree with the other posters who mentioned the Jewish New Yorker ideal. Both my husband and I are Jewish btw… he prefers the softer, dark and curly haired rounder type with bigger boobs. Guess that’s how I landed him

I think SJP is a rotten person who is probably a lot like Carrie. But I do love how angry she makes men. Just the mention of her sends so many of them into a rage. Pretty much every man I know thinks she’s hideous, and they’re actually offended that she’s successful. So for that I love her. But honestly I think she’s a shady woman, and I believe every word Catrall says about her. The rest say what they need to to keep her claws off of them and to keep the money coming.

Where are you finding all these men with such strong opinions about Sarah Jessica Parker?

No man has ever flown into a rage over SJP.

NP. I don't know about "flying into a rage" but I've definitely been around men that felt the need to deliver a lecture about her "horse face" or bad nose or whatever at the mere mention of her name. They usually aren't exactly lookers themselves lol, but then we have garbage shows like King of Queens out there making them think they all deserve someone far out of their league.

Rude, Low quality men it sound like

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It’s just a show.

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I’m not reading this whole thread but OP unless you were a woman in NY in the 90s/2000s you have no clue what you are talking about. And for those who think she was too skinny, that was the look back then- Paltrow, Halle Berri, Kate Moss. Also people went out a lot, diverse crowd so you met people from different industries. Not like around DC where everyone is so stuffy and affected.

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Anonymous wrote:Antisemitism and misogyny on this thread is disturbing and sad.

Yes and yes.

This.

I enjoy watching the British actresses on the British series because plastic surgery is rare. The British actresses look like real women.

You even see British actors and actresses with bad teeth once in a while.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is a ridiculous thread.

Personality goes a long way in attraction. Carrie Bradshaw was vivacious and witty and engaging and had a personality. She wasn't a bland model with a pretty face.

Believe it or not, many men are attracted to personality over beauty. But let's play this game. The very wealthy Mr. Big could have any models he wanted with a snap of his fingers. But he knows most are dull and boring and aren't at his intelligence level. Then he meets Carrie, who's strikingly different from all the usual boring beautiful and groomed women in his life. She stands out.

That's definitely attraction.

OT but that’s what was so weird about the show. The character’s personality was crap.

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Anonymous wrote:The racism and misogyny on this thread is very disheartening

+1. Such great role models we are for our children.

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I never found any of the guys she dated to be over the top gorgeous either. Good looking, yes. Rich, some. But they weren’t strikingly attractive like Smith Jerrod. Aiden was too good for her for sure because he was a good guy and she walked all over him but it was his personality that made him so attractive.

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Anonymous wrote:I never found any of the guys she dated to be over the top gorgeous either. Good looking, yes. Rich, some. But they weren’t strikingly attractive like Smith Jerrod. Aiden was too good for her for sure because he was a good guy and she walked all over him but it was his personality that made him so attractive.

Agree.

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Anonymous wrote:This is a ridiculous thread.

Personality goes a long way in attraction. Carrie Bradshaw was vivacious and witty and engaging and had a personality. She wasn't a bland model with a pretty face.

Believe it or not, many men are attracted to personality over beauty. But let's play this game. The very wealthy Mr. Big could have any models he wanted with a snap of his fingers. But he knows most are dull and boring and aren't at his intelligence level. Then he meets Carrie, who's strikingly different from all the usual boring beautiful and groomed women in his life. She stands out.

That's definitely attraction.

OT but that’s what was so weird about the show. The character’s personality was crap.

I agree. I think her personality was the worst part of her and made the character so unattractive. The character was shallow, self-absorbed and not very smart.
The big Mr thing is so funny. He is the gold ring for the women of the show. He would never never ever date her in real life. She is not pretty, her personality is cold and low energy and she general has little true interest in men.

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Anonymous wrote:Antisemitism and misogyny on this thread is disturbing and sad.

Yes and yes.

This.

I enjoy watching the British actresses on the British series because plastic surgery is rare. The British actresses look like real women.

You even see British actors and actresses with bad teeth once in a while.

Agree, British shows are refreshing to watch.

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I know a woman who is a total doppelgänger of SJP’s (literally could play a younger version of her) down to the fashion sense. She has no problem dating, at all.

I guess that’s shocking for the anti Semites in this thread.