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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Also, as a 20-something, I didn't understand how much the having kids things -- when, with home, how many -- would become, for better and for worse, a great strain and great sorter of my female relationships by 35-40, and this is not realistically demonstrated in the show at all. I think a lot of us who watched the show at 20, and didn't think much about the characters being 40, are now 40 ourselves, and realize the show is about 40 yr olds acting like they're 20. That's yikes for me. [/quote]

The last sentence is 100% true.  It seemed sort of fascinating when we were 23 - now that we're the age they are supposed to be (around 40?), they just seem pathetic.[/quote]

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[b]I remember the episode where Carrie goes to a woman’s home with a baby and she has to take off her beloved Manolos. They get taken and she makes the mom pay her $500 for them. The moral of the episode is, “some women have families, and some of us have shoes.”[/b][/quote]

See this is the part of the show I hated so much. It made women into caricatures because god forbid we show women who have babies and designer shoes. If someone stole some shit from a guest at my small home gathering (there were like 12 people there) it would be a shit hit the fan situation that I would 100% pay for and then go apeshit on the culprit, who would obviously be easy to figure out!

No some women don't have shoes and some have babies. Many many women have both, even more women in our world have neither.  I'm all for fluffy escapism but then don't drop platitudes like this as wisdom at the end, because its a disservice. I don't think a single woman at 40 is trying to be 20. Every single woman I know at 40 does eat out at great restaurants and travels all the time to fabulous places because you are supposed to live your life and make yourself happy with what you have, no wait until a life that may not materialize comes along because that's what you are "supposed to do".[b] I don't want to see a 40 year old (I am 40 BTW) sitting around lamenting their life because the kids/spouse thing hasn't worked for them yet.[/b] Yes you get to be sad about it if it makes you sad but you don't punish yourself- you go live and that's not trying to be 20, its being content where you are with what you have. Its a privilege to have the resources to do so even ![/quote]

This episode was horrifying. From having to take her shoes off to the flippant "maybe Jennifer took them by mistake she was wearing sandals" (yes I've watched too many times) to her making the stupid "I'm registered to get married to myself" phone call. I thought it made the women on both sides just look like assholes.[/quote]

I have this friend and believe me, it is not attractive. I know I don't want to hear it anymore.[/quote]

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