Posted on 06/03/2008 7:22:19 AM PDT by A_perfect_lady
Jerry and George had some really hot girlfriends on Seinfeld too. Every episode it was someone new.
So it is Lifetime pron?
It is addressing trends. When young upwardly mobile women forgo marriage for recreational sex and career and then “settle down” after their biological clock has ceased to be fertile (needing medical treatments that give us a disproportionate number of twins and triplets) it changes the culture. They also will be about a generation older than the mothers of the other kids at their child’s school (not everyone is a sexually liberated yuppie).
The intellectuals got so smart that they ceased to reproduce.
If they are trying to have a child there is a world of difference between twenty and forty. They may get REALLY BAD NEWS if they wait until forty to try conceiving.
Bushnell said that she based her New York Observer column, “Sex and the City,” on her relationships with her girlfriends. The characters in the column and on the show are based on Bushnell and her friends in real life.
Bushnell speaks on sex, city and shoes
Michael Patrick King, Executive Producer:"People thought, oh it's just about sex or it's just about fashion. And then slowly over the years people start to see it's really about love ... and relationships ... and sex ... and basically the battlefield of trying to be in love—whether it be with another person or with yourself."
Does that make Jerry and George sluts?
I’m 31, female, single, and don’t need Sex and the City’s permission to make it “okay.”
Jerry or Elaine, usually, and sometimes George or Kramer would find the love of their lives early in an episode. Then they would find some little imperfection: “Man hands,” retrograde attitude to abortion, funny-sounding laugh, and so on, and dump them by the end of the show.
This was common as well on SATC. The other party had to be perfect from the get-go. Remember when Charlotte almost married a guy, but dumped him because she couldn’t stand his taste in wedding china?
I recall a 2000 TIME article about empowered thirtysomething women refusing to “settle.” If only we could stay 34 forever... Where are they now? Do you suppose?
In the mid-nineties, when Bushnell’s book first came out, reviewers pointed out that—like a late-model Woody Allen movie—she didn’t exactly run with an everyday New Yorker crowd.
It’s an almost soviet-style indoctrination. The SATC/Cosmo-girl/Rom-com life plan. You go all-out on the glamorous career and boffo sex life from 18 to 33, then McDreamy will stumble into your life and sweep you off your feet and you will live happily ever after.
If not? Well, stock up on the kitty litter, I guess...
I have seen a bit of the show. Every time I turn to it, they are in bed with some guy.
Don’t tell me the show is “deep” because it involves themes other than getting laid.
When you turn to the show and that is what you see 90 percent of the time, that is the show.
They didn’t name it Sex and the City because it is about girlfriends.
Well, the reason Mary is in the libraarian get up is because she was a pot with only one potential lid--George. And she's not afraid of the average man because she's a spinster, she's scared because Potterville is riddled with poverty and crime.
I'm sure Capra wouldn't have had a spinster character scared of her own shadow on the streets of Bedford Falls.
Trust fund kids.
No. Only Charlotte came from money. Miranda and Carrie were of middle-class origins. Samantha, the only native New Yorker—while well-polished—was proudly working-class, self-made.
You're talking about some Hollywood thing that I haven't seen and likely never will see.
I was talking about trust-fund people I have met in real life. For the most part, they are shallow, self-centered individuals who can not maintain relationships and who no one really likes.
“Is 40 Really the New 20?”
God I hope not. I’m 39 and NOT looking to have more kids, mine are almost grown....2 years & counting!
Well then, I guess we’d better up the Estate tax to make sure those nasty rich people can’t spoil their offspring.
I didn't say anything about that. All I said is that I have met real life trust fund kids who's life attitude is not appreciably different than welfare bums, albeit with fancier cloths and cars.
Besides, the estate tax does not impact trust funds. Ask any Kennedy.
Nah. Just makes them about as believable as the Tooth Fairy.
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