Sex And The City

I must admit that I have not seen a whole episode of Sex And The City. I saw bits and pieces of one episode. I don't really know what it was about but the older chick was sexing up another women. I can't even tell you if they were two of the main characters.

What I don't get about the show is how the women who love it find it to be so empowering while it seems to cultivate every single stereotype men have about women. It just seems to me the show is very materially obsessed and just reinforces most notions that many men unfortunately have in regards to women; that they love and just have to have that new purse or dress or whatever it is that women love these days (which I am sure is not me).

I know some of the defenders of the show will say that the characters are well developed, that it shows girls can be like guys and sit around and chat about who they hooked up with, that these women have all the power in their relationships, or that women are just happy that one movie out of all the other crappy movies such as Transformers are being marketed to them as opposed to little kids or men who are in Arrested Development.

But if you ask me I don't see that. I just see a show that reinforces the old stereotype that women like shiny things and just want to settle down with some hunky guy, preferably one that was in Law and Order.

Again, I might be and probably am wrong since admittedly the only episode I ever watched was one where two women were having sex. Maybe that wasn't very representable of the whole show. If any women read this I would like to hear your thoughts on the matter.

(And I must say when the movie came out in the theater I defended the women who made their boyfriends go see it with them. I hated hearing how guys were like no way I'm gonna see that movie with my girl. Well fuck you guys, how many times did you drag your girl to see some shit sucking movie like Transformers?)