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[quote=Anonymous]All the women I know who were suuuuuper into SATC viewed it not as a glamorization of single life but identified with it in terms of finding "the one." The show is actually pretty obsessed with serious relationships. It portrays a lot of bed hopping, yes, but largely in service of finding true love. Even its more cynical and independent characters wind up in long term, committed, live in relationships, one of them a marriage. Three of the four wind up married in stable relationships, two with kids. Two of the women ultimately wind up divorced, but one happily remarries and has kids and the other winds up exploring her sexuality. Maybe not traditionalism, but a fairly representative sample of how a lot of relationships go these days.

The central romance of the show involves Carrie's on again off again with Big, which ultimately ends with a happy ending and the two of them together. Even if I find this course of events laughably unrealistic and not even very romantic, it's hard to say this is an argument for sleeping around and not caring about relationships. The whole show is about being freaking obsessed with relationships. I watched it when it aired but have to admit I wasn't as into it as some of my friends because I simply had no interest in marriage at the time (mid 20s) and actually enjoyed being single, and the show was NOT about enjoying being single. It did celebrate the idea of women enjoying sex, which was refreshing. But otherwise I found it mildly regressive with the focus on love and marriage as the central feature of a professional woman's life, plus I felt the friendship between the women was deeply unrealistic (no way these four women would actually become a devoted group of friends, they were way too different). The clothes and shoes were always my favorite part, not because I was dumb enough to blow $400 on a pair of high heels, but because Patricia Field is a genius. I also enjoyed watching Emily in Paris (which Field works on) for the same reason even though I am not and will never be a semi-dumb 20-something running around Paris without bothering to learn French.[/quote]

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