Carrie Bradshaw was not good looking enough for her dating life

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I think she’s hot.

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Anonymous wrote:I think she’s hot.

+1 charisma and a hot body go a long way. I’d kill for her figure.

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Anonymous wrote:I want to know how Kristen Davis landed an acting career. Because oh dear.

I think she got a career because she is classically beautiful. She’s exactly what Charlotte would look like.

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Anonymous wrote:I want to know how Kristen Davis landed an acting career. Because oh dear.

I think she got a career because she is classically beautiful. She’s exactly what Charlotte would look like.

And she really grew into the role. She had some lovely moments in the later seasons.

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Anonymous wrote:I want to know how Kristen Davis landed an acting career. Because oh dear.

I think she got a career because she is classically beautiful. She’s exactly what Charlotte would look like.

She’s also exactly what Brooke would have looked like on Melrose Place - and she was pretty good there.

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I have a friend with a similar sort of look to her. She is super intelligent and successful, has a great personality (people love being around her), and is just a fun/generous friend. She married a hot guy who adores her.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m rewatching Sex and the City series and I’m stuck by how unattractive Carrie Bradshaw is. She isn’t beautiful by any stretch of the imagination and the men she dates are completely above her league.

What! Sarah Jessica Parker dated Robert Downey Jr and also JFK Jr, who is one of the most gorgeous men to ever live.

The proof that men DO find her attractive simply cannot overcome OP's assertion that they must not.

Are we going to acknowledge that she's Jewish, looks Jewish, and never deracinated herself, and perhaps that is part of what underlies OP's entirely query?

In this case I do not think anti-semitism is behind the debate. But I do think people from outside the NY and New Jersey area often don't realize that SJP's looks are reflective of a lot of Jews from the region and that's one reason she works well in this role (she just comes off as very "New York Jewish" in her whole presentation even though her character isn't Jewish that I can tell). There are people who don't interact with tons of Jewish people and whose perception of what New York is like is based on shows like Friends where everyone is a bit more homogenous and middle America looking (even the Jewish characters!). So someone like OP is like "huh SJP does not look like all the New Yorkers I see on these kind of sterile television shows and movies that are actually filmed in LA with actors from Kansas and Witchita -- she isn't very attractive is she." Not realizing that SJP has a very classic New York look that is yes very Jewish and also considered attractive and common in the area.

Ilana Glazer and Jenny Slate are other examples of actresses with classic Jewish looks that people outside places like the Northeast or LA may not "get" because they just have limited exposure to Jewish faces.

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Carolyn Bessette was really homely and thin with good style and charisma. She had the hottest men. To me Carrie Bradshaw is a more, exaggerated version of her.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m rewatching Sex and the City series and I’m stuck by how unattractive Carrie Bradshaw is. She isn’t beautiful by any stretch of the imagination and the men she dates are completely above her league.

What! Sarah Jessica Parker dated Robert Downey Jr and also JFK Jr, who is one of the most gorgeous men to ever live.

The proof that men DO find her attractive simply cannot overcome OP's assertion that they must not.

Are we going to acknowledge that she's Jewish, looks Jewish, and never deracinated herself, and perhaps that is part of what underlies OP's entirely query?

In this case I do not think anti-semitism is behind the debate. But I do think people from outside the NY and New Jersey area often don't realize that SJP's looks are reflective of a lot of Jews from the region and that's one reason she works well in this role (she just comes off as very "New York Jewish" in her whole presentation even though her character isn't Jewish that I can tell). There are people who don't interact with tons of Jewish people and whose perception of what New York is like is based on shows like Friends where everyone is a bit more homogenous and middle America looking (even the Jewish characters!). So someone like OP is like "huh SJP does not look like all the New Yorkers I see on these kind of sterile television shows and movies that are actually filmed in LA with actors from Kansas and Witchita -- she isn't very attractive is she." Not realizing that SJP has a very classic New York look that is yes very Jewish and also considered attractive and common in the area.

Ilana Glazer and Jenny Slate are other examples of actresses with classic Jewish looks that people outside places like the Northeast or LA may not "get" because they just have limited exposure to Jewish faces.

It's an issue everywhere and even within the community. My dd is 17 and her friends are starting to have nose jobs. Lisa Kudrow is Jewish and had a nose job.

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I think she looks good. Actually I dated a woman for a few years who looked a lot like her. Good times.

It's a mix of a non-conventional face, plus really good style, and a nice body. The package altogether is what makes her attractive.

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Anonymous wrote:Only Aidan was above her league. Everyone else was a match.

Skinny is hardly a rarity in NYC (and skinny doesn't mean attractive), she was also broke with awful credit, and she was on the wrong side of 30 (and wrong side of 35 in the later seasons). Big would have had no reason to date her. In fact, Big would never trust or associate with her for fear she was recording calls and using him to exploit him in a book or scandalous magazine expose.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m rewatching Sex and the City series and I’m stuck by how unattractive Carrie Bradshaw is. She isn’t beautiful by any stretch of the imagination and the men she dates are completely above her league.

What! Sarah Jessica Parker dated Robert Downey Jr and also JFK Jr, who is one of the most gorgeous men to ever live.

The proof that men DO find her attractive simply cannot overcome OP's assertion that they must not.

Are we going to acknowledge that she's Jewish, looks Jewish, and never deracinated herself, and perhaps that is part of what underlies OP's entirely query?

In this case I do not think anti-semitism is behind the debate. But I do think people from outside the NY and New Jersey area often don't realize that SJP's looks are reflective of a lot of Jews from the region and that's one reason she works well in this role (she just comes off as very "New York Jewish" in her whole presentation even though her character isn't Jewish that I can tell). There are people who don't interact with tons of Jewish people and whose perception of what New York is like is based on shows like Friends where everyone is a bit more homogenous and middle America looking (even the Jewish characters!). So someone like OP is like "huh SJP does not look like all the New Yorkers I see on these kind of sterile television shows and movies that are actually filmed in LA with actors from Kansas and Witchita -- she isn't very attractive is she." Not realizing that SJP has a very classic New York look that is yes very Jewish and also considered attractive and common in the area.

Ilana Glazer and Jenny Slate are other examples of actresses with classic Jewish looks that people outside places like the Northeast or LA may not "get" because they just have limited exposure to Jewish faces.

lol, what in the world are you talking about? SATC, Friends, Seinfeld, and Girls all featured mostly Jewish lead actors and actresses.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m rewatching Sex and the City series and I’m stuck by how unattractive Carrie Bradshaw is. She isn’t beautiful by any stretch of the imagination and the men she dates are completely above her league.

What! Sarah Jessica Parker dated Robert Downey Jr and also JFK Jr, who is one of the most gorgeous men to ever live.

The proof that men DO find her attractive simply cannot overcome OP's assertion that they must not.

Are we going to acknowledge that she's Jewish, looks Jewish, and never deracinated herself, and perhaps that is part of what underlies OP's entirely query?

In this case I do not think anti-semitism is behind the debate. But I do think people from outside the NY and New Jersey area often don't realize that SJP's looks are reflective of a lot of Jews from the region and that's one reason she works well in this role (she just comes off as very "New York Jewish" in her whole presentation even though her character isn't Jewish that I can tell). There are people who don't interact with tons of Jewish people and whose perception of what New York is like is based on shows like Friends where everyone is a bit more homogenous and middle America looking (even the Jewish characters!). So someone like OP is like "huh SJP does not look like all the New Yorkers I see on these kind of sterile television shows and movies that are actually filmed in LA with actors from Kansas and Witchita -- she isn't very attractive is she." Not realizing that SJP has a very classic New York look that is yes very Jewish and also considered attractive and common in the area.

Ilana Glazer and Jenny Slate are other examples of actresses with classic Jewish looks that people outside places like the Northeast or LA may not "get" because they just have limited exposure to Jewish faces.

lol, what in the world are you talking about? SATC, Friends, Seinfeld, and Girls all featured mostly Jewish lead actors and actresses.

+1 Also Carrie the character wasn’t supposed to be from NYC and SJP isn’t from NYC either.

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Anonymous wrote:Only Aidan was above her league. Everyone else was a match.

Skinny is hardly a rarity in NYC (and skinny doesn't mean attractive), she was also broke with awful credit, and she was on the wrong side of 30 (and wrong side of 35 in the later seasons). Big would have had no reason to date her. In fact, Big would never trust or associate with her for fear she was recording calls and using him to exploit him in a book or scandalous magazine expose.

We're talking strictly about looks here.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m rewatching Sex and the City series and I’m stuck by how unattractive Carrie Bradshaw is. She isn’t beautiful by any stretch of the imagination and the men she dates are completely above her league.

What! Sarah Jessica Parker dated Robert Downey Jr and also JFK Jr, who is one of the most gorgeous men to ever live.

The proof that men DO find her attractive simply cannot overcome OP's assertion that they must not.

Are we going to acknowledge that she's Jewish, looks Jewish, and never deracinated herself, and perhaps that is part of what underlies OP's entirely query?

In this case I do not think anti-semitism is behind the debate. But I do think people from outside the NY and New Jersey area often don't realize that SJP's looks are reflective of a lot of Jews from the region and that's one reason she works well in this role (she just comes off as very "New York Jewish" in her whole presentation even though her character isn't Jewish that I can tell). There are people who don't interact with tons of Jewish people and whose perception of what New York is like is based on shows like Friends where everyone is a bit more homogenous and middle America looking (even the Jewish characters!). So someone like OP is like "huh SJP does not look like all the New Yorkers I see on these kind of sterile television shows and movies that are actually filmed in LA with actors from Kansas and Witchita -- she isn't very attractive is she." Not realizing that SJP has a very classic New York look that is yes very Jewish and also considered attractive and common in the area.

Ilana Glazer and Jenny Slate are other examples of actresses with classic Jewish looks that people outside places like the Northeast or LA may not "get" because they just have limited exposure to Jewish faces.

It's an issue everywhere and even within the community. My dd is 17 and her friends are starting to have nose jobs. Lisa Kudrow is Jewish and had a nose job.

This is funny to me, because I love Lisa Kudrow, but I think her nose is really pretty terrible. She deserves her money back.