Rewatching Sex and the City

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This show messed me up. It came out when I was 18-21 or something. They would give each other so much shit if one of them went a few weeks or months without sex. So I thought I always had to be having sex and really jacked up my number of partners when watching it.

Hmph... sounds to me like you just went thru a hoe phase. No make believe TV show will make you have more sex. Girl bye!!! Fly your hoe flag proudly; no excuses.

Actually the media definitely can strongly affect people's attitudes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This show messed me up. It came out when I was 18-21 or something. They would give each other so much shit if one of them went a few weeks or months without sex. So I thought I always had to be having sex and really jacked up my number of partners when watching it.

Hmph... sounds to me like you just went thru a hoe phase. No make believe TV show will make you have more sex. Girl bye!!! Fly your hoe flag proudly; no excuses.

Actually the media definitely can strongly affect people's attitudes.

Yep for very weak and easily influenced people. I feel for those people.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:All of the husbands/men except Harry and Smith Jerrod were TRASH. Especially Big and Steve. Effing STEVE!!!

TELL IT PP!!!!!!!!! Steve was such a step down for Miranda. She settled in a ridiculous way, all because she got knocked up (which you’d think she wouldn’t do, if her prior actions on the show served as a prediction of future ones).

I also agree with another PP who said that Aidan was a pushover. Honestly couldn’t see his appeal.

And then Steve had the nerve to cheat on her!
And Aidan kissed Carrie when he was married to Cathy!

The show was bad-good but the movies drove me over the edge

Yes! The movies made me hate Steve. He cheated on Miranda! That’s unforgivable. She shouldn’t have taken him back. He super sucks.

[Anonymous]

Let’s not cast a pall on Steve because they decided to make a movie and had to come up with a reason for Miranda to hate the institution of marriage.

[Anonymous]

Try watching it with the commentary on. The writers talk about how they wrote it to pander/manipulate their audience.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was early 20s, single, just out of college, living alone in a city when this came out. Loved it because there was little TV directed to my demographic. It was all single women, not a family sitcom, and they addressed real dating type issues. Admittedly in an exaggerated way but of course because it’s TV. Just like no one in NYC is ever portrayed having realistic apartments, I didn’t take the show as realistic or dictating my own sex life. I didn’t aspire to be any of the characters, thoughI could relate glimpses of them to aspects of myself or friends. Also, it was refreshing at the time to see depictions of women talking dating and sex not limited to finding a husband and living happily ever after. Even with Charlotte. It is dated now for sure but I think it did good things in its time.

Yes, at the time it was considered groundbreaking to have women on a TV show talking so graphically about sex.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Never figured out why Charlotte wasn't already long married and living in Greenwich with her hedge fund husband and three perfect kids. She seemed too much of a cliche to me.

Because the ugly hags and gay guys who wrote the show could never admit perfect women like Charlotte almost always have perfect lives.

Charlotte was perfect?! I disagree. She was very flawed, rigid, and neurotic.

+ add in incredibly judgmental, pretty narrow minded, super needy, low self esteem, and sometimes outright delusional. She was definitely not perfect in my book.

Don't forget embarrassingly desperate!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This show messed me up. It came out when I was 18-21 or something. They would give each other so much shit if one of them went a few weeks or months without sex. So I thought I always had to be having sex and really jacked up my number of partners when watching it.

Really?

Lindsay Lohan has made similar comments. SiTC really did a number on some of its audience.

This makes sense to me. I watched Dallas, Dynasty and soaps as a teenager. My ideas of sex, love and marriage were messed up.

[Anonymous]

I love Charlotte

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I can’t believe how many storylines you all remember. I loved it at the time and hardly remember any of the things in this thread.

[Anonymous]

I was probably early 30s when they show came out - male - and originally from NYC (high end high school and college in NYC) but living in DC at the time. There were SO many young DC women who thought that they should emulate EVERYTHING they saw on that show. Made me feel bad they did not get the joke. Those characters were commentary, not heroes.

Remember the semi-intoxicated conversation I had with a woman who knew I was from NY about the show (She was from somewhere in the South) that basically went like this: her - such a great show. Me - it’s sort of entertaining but you do realize the people those characters are sort of based on would treat you like sheet if you ever encountered them? Her - no way. Me, well...

Her, a month later after going to a party in NYC: OMG, what a bunch of bitches.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Never figured out why Charlotte wasn't already long married and living in Greenwich with her hedge fund husband and three perfect kids. She seemed too much of a cliche to me.

Because the ugly hags and gay guys who wrote the show could never admit perfect women like Charlotte almost always have perfect lives.

Charlotte was perfect?! I disagree. She was very flawed, rigid, and neurotic.

+ add in incredibly judgmental, pretty narrow minded, super needy, low self esteem, and sometimes outright delusional. She was definitely not perfect in my book.

Don't forget embarrassingly desperate!

SOOOO desperate. She thought she knew what she wanted, but she was so desperate and pathetic she couldn't get out of her own way or build any kind of real personality because her whole world revolved around finding a man who ticked her boxes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This show messed me up. It came out when I was 18-21 or something. They would give each other so much shit if one of them went a few weeks or months without sex. So I thought I always had to be having sex and really jacked up my number of partners when watching it.

Hmph... sounds to me like you just went thru a hoe phase. No make believe TV show will make you have more sex. Girl bye!!! Fly your hoe flag proudly; no excuses.

Actually the media definitely can strongly affect people's attitudes.

Yep for very weak and easily influenced people. I feel for those people.

Yes. The frats were pretty happy about the show. They got lots of action from girls wanting to sleep around

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:All of the husbands/men except Harry and Smith Jerrod were TRASH. Especially Big and Steve. Effing STEVE!!!

TELL IT PP!!!!!!!!! Steve was such a step down for Miranda. She settled in a ridiculous way, all because she got knocked up (which you’d think she wouldn’t do, if her prior actions on the show served as a prediction of future ones).

I also agree with another PP who said that Aidan was a pushover. Honestly couldn’t see his appeal.

Miranda settled? She was lucky that any man looked twice at her.

[Anonymous]

The worst episode was when Samantha's period was late and thought she was going into menopause. She was depressed over getting older so she had sex with her creepy old neighbor? While having sex, she started her period. Gross