Let's get real: Charlotte York would never have been single

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God Blair Underwood is hot.

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Anonymous wrote:It's a TV show I don't think Charlotte is the most unrealistic aspect.... No way could a newspaper columnist afford Carrie's wardrobe

No way would Carrie have ever dated all those hot men. Maybe hook ups at the end of a long drunken night, but no way would they have ever wanted her.

Which hot men?????? They were all fugly

THANK YOU!!! The meds were basic at best and most definitely on Carrie’s level. Ugly and homely is Miranda, who didn’t deserve Steve and most definitely didn’t deserve Blair Underwood.

Sure but they were all rich and high status andbso out of Carrie’s league.

No they all were not. Big was and he ended up marrying Natasha and we see how that ended.

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Anonymous wrote:Um...the actress who played her is still single IRL. She finally adopted on her own.

I think the thread is about the character, not the actress. Charlotte was traditionally pretty, marriage minded, and not particularly career oriented. It really didn’t make sense she was single.

She was very picky though. She only dated high status men with elite jobs.

But someone with her good looks and breeding would do very well with that set.

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Anonymous wrote:It never made sense to me that someone like Charlotte would be single into her mid thirties. She's beautiful, conservative, family oriented and the only date able person on the show.

Most women in NY get married in their early to mid 30s.

Women like Miranda maybe, women like Charlotte are married by 27.

Yeah. Charlotte would've locked down a guy in college and then gotten engaged by 24 and married by 26-27.

The rest of the girls and their plight was very believable. Especially Miranda. Yuck!

Most women in NY really don't marry that young unless they are orthodox Jews. I have many conservative waspy friends in Manhattan and don't know a single one who married by 26-27.

You are forgetting the time period of the show. My friends and I (late 80-early 90s high school grads) all got married before 30.

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I always thought the strangest thing about Charlotte’s character was that she was part of that friend group at all. She never really fit well with Samantha or Miranda. Yes Carrie was the glue that held them together but you could see Samantha & Miranda being able to get along on their own. Not so with Charlotte.

She was too stuck up and prissy for them.

Irl would someone like Samantha or Miranda give Charlotte the time of day? No.

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Anonymous wrote:Um...the actress who played her is still single IRL. She finally adopted on her own.

I think the thread is about the character, not the actress. Charlotte was traditionally pretty, marriage minded, and not particularly career oriented. It really didn’t make sense she was single.

She was very picky though. She only dated high status men with elite jobs.

But someone with her good looks and breeding would do very well with that set.

+1 she may get cheated on or even dumped once she got older, but some successful guy definitely would have married her before she turned 30.

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hmmmm.. look at Tinsley Mortimer from Real Housewives of NY. She should be married too.

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Anonymous wrote:I always thought the strangest thing about Charlotte’s character was that she was part of that friend group at all. She never really fit well with Samantha or Miranda. Yes Carrie was the glue that held them together but you could see Samantha & Miranda being able to get along on their own. Not so with Charlotte.

She was too stuck up and prissy for them.

Irl would someone like Samantha or Miranda give Charlotte the time of day? No.

Yes! It never made any sense that Charlotte was a part of their group. She wasn’t really close with any of them individually and weren’t they all condescending towards her anyway?

I can’t imagine Charlotte and Miranda getting drinks by themselves.

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Anonymous wrote:Um...the actress who played her is still single IRL. She finally adopted on her own.

I think the thread is about the character, not the actress. Charlotte was traditionally pretty, marriage minded, and not particularly career oriented. It really didn’t make sense she was single.

She was very picky though. She only dated high status men with elite jobs.

But someone with her good looks and breeding would do very well with that set.

+1 she may get cheated on or even dumped once she got older, but some successful guy definitely would have married her before she turned 30.

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She may have been 40 divorced and back on the market but it’s so unrealistic that someone as pretty and well connected as she would be would be desperately single into her early to mid thirties.

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"Charlottes" in real life have high-status men beating down their doors since age 14. It's comical that woman would have been perpetually single into her 30s - a Smith College gal like her would have had her pick of handsome and well-groomed Harvard Men. Then towards the end of the show she ended up with that ugly bald schmuck? Haha, as if!

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Anonymous wrote:hmmmm.. look at Tinsley Mortimer from Real Housewives of NY. She should be married too.

Good point!

She seems to have ditched her first husband, thinking she could do better, and now she’s having trouble getting a man to commit.

I wonder if she regrets her divorce. Her ex just had a baby. That has to hurt considering she’s dying to have kids.

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Anonymous wrote:"Charlottes" in real life have high-status men beating down their doors since age 14. It's comical that woman would have been perpetually single into her 30s - a Smith College gal like her would have had her pick of handsome and well-groomed Harvard Men. Then towards the end of the show she ended up with that ugly bald schmuck? Haha, as if!

The whole point was that she did have men beating down her door for a while but she was too picky.

Then she got older and she had to settle.

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Anonymous wrote:It never made sense to me that someone like Charlotte would be single into her mid thirties. She's beautiful, conservative, family oriented and the only date able person on the show.

Most women in NY get married in their early to mid 30s.

Women like Miranda maybe, women like Charlotte are married by 27.

Yeah. Charlotte would've locked down a guy in college and then gotten engaged by 24 and married by 26-27.

The rest of the girls and their plight was very believable. Especially Miranda. Yuck!

Most women in NY really don't marry that young unless they are orthodox Jews. I have many conservative waspy friends in Manhattan and don't know a single one who married by 26-27.

You are forgetting the time period of the show. My friends and I (late 80-early 90s high school grads) all got married before 30.

+1. According to Wikipedia (Lol), Charlotte was born in 1967 (Miranda and Carrie were born in 1966 so roughly the same age). Meaning she would have graduated from college at age 22 in 1989. Sex and the City started airing in 1998, putting her at age 31. Even people in big cities got married well before age 30 in the early 90s. I also found it very unrealistic that she was still single given her background.

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Anonymous wrote:This is interesting. Earlier on the how you see how Charlotte has no trouble dating and attracting WASPY Ivy League trust fund type guys. But the relationship never lasts because while she is more mature than Carrie, Charlotte has her own hangups. She is incredibly prissy, very superficial and incredibly uptight about sex. I think she dumps one guy because they liked different china patterns and another because she didn’t want to give BJs.

After a while the supply of waspy well bred guys runs out and she gets desperate.By the time she meets Harry she has shed all of her nonsense and superficial requirements and is ready for mature love.

Totally agree with this.

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Anonymous wrote:I always thought the strangest thing about Charlotte’s character was that she was part of that friend group at all. She never really fit well with Samantha or Miranda. Yes Carrie was the glue that held them together but you could see Samantha & Miranda being able to get along on their own. Not so with Charlotte.

She was too stuck up and prissy for them.

Irl would someone like Samantha or Miranda give Charlotte the time of day? No.

Yes! It never made any sense that Charlotte was a part of their group. She wasn’t really close with any of them individually and weren’t they all condescending towards her anyway?

I can’t imagine Charlotte and Miranda getting drinks by themselves.

I think the only way the Charlotte character works at all is if you conclude that, underneath her very pretty and put-together exterior, she is an absolute mess of anxiety and insecurity. That's why she sabotages every relationship by nit-picking the guy and that's why she hangs out with a group of women she has nothing in common with, simply because one of them was ... what? her roommate in college or something? Again, I think--to the extent the character makes any sense--that's why the relationship with the not-hot Jewish lawyer works for her, because he just totally breaks down the anxiety and insecurity because he's completely foreign to the world that was driving her nuts.

There's a similar dynamic on Girls, but they are much more honest about it there, with the characters (irritatingly) asking each other why they hang out when they really have nothing in common and don't even like each other very much. It's because they are all too messed up to go and find new friends that they have something in common with.