The thing I don’t get about that show is Kristen Davis is the only one who is attractive. How are they supposed to be getting that much action? Are guys in NYC really that hard up?
Easy - Don’t buy a ticket!
Hooray!
Heterosexually transmitted AIDS was a myth created by gays to elicit support for funding.
It happens, but it's very rare.
I read most (all I could tolerate) of the article and it made me glad I have never watched any of it.
My exposure to this little cultural artifact is somewhat limited. But what I have seen convinces me that this is a fantasy about 4 promiscuous gay men who live lives of great irresponsibility and enjoy having frequent sex with near strangers. I guess for marketing purposes they decided to hire actresses to play the gay men. I don’t see the appeal.
The show should actually be titled..."TRAMPS and The City"
Favorite. Hm. I think I know more about this reviewer now than I care to.
I still cannot fathom why anyone would watch that crap
Just the title of the show turned me off. I’m not a prude but I don’t like NYC, big cities or watching 4 middle aged sluts in action. So I have never watched one episode.
Gosh, I used to dream of being a teacher or IRS Commissioner, not of being a whore.
No surprise here. Just that it should have a more ‘correct’ title (TRAMPS and the City) to characterize the storyline.
Sex in the City:
4 Gay Men in Manhattan who’s roles are played by women.
That’s effectively this show, period.
Assinine looking “so called fashions” and ridiculous banter. Also, someone should tell carrie when she is not on the set that it is time to put the fantasy behind and move back into the real world. I’ve seen photos of her in mags etc and she looks ridiculous. Totally skinny to the point of sickly and wearing things best left to the YOUNG.
I have no idea what the show is about but I saw a promo once and I must ask the same question as Chris Griffin from family guy; “It’s about three hookers and their mom?”
Former model Lauren Hutton was the guest on the Today show for some reason, and Kathie Lee Gifford asked her about Sex and the City. She had plenty to say about it, even though she’s never seen it.
Said Hutton: “It’s written by guys, who happen to be gay, who are sluts. That’s what I think. Let’s face it most men are sluts. That’s what testosterone is supposed to do. As a hunter, if you stayed alive after 30, nature wanted your genes out there. Women were just trying to get the best sperm to make a masterpiece...You have a bunch a guys who are sluts, writing for women and telling them they are supposed to act like this.”
Set in New York City, the show focused on four self absorbed and vacuous American women who act like homosexual men, three in their mid-thirties and one in her forties. The quirky series had multiple continuing story lines and tackled socially relevant issues such as sexually transmitted diseases, safe sex, and promiscuity. It specifically examined the lives of big-city professional women in the late 1990s/early 2000s and how changing roles and expectations for women affected the characters.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_and_the_City
New ‘Sex And The City 2’ Trailer Looks Pretty Damn Gay
Well, Stanford Blatch is getting married. And the girls are dressed like trannies. And there’s sex and rich people doing stuff and puns and Abu Dhabi and John Corbett and babies and “Empire State of Mind” and Sarah Jessica Parker paying homage to Annie Hall the best way she knows how (in a lady’s tuxedo).
http://www.queersighted.com/2010/04/09/new-sex-and-the-city-2-trailer/
Even Marge Simpson has recognised the secret to Sex and the City. “That’s the show about four women acting like gay guys,” she said in a recent episode of The Simpsons. She’s always been a thinker, that Marge.
For Sex and the City, it seemed the formula was to write gay male and cast straight female. Its (gay) creator, Darren Star (pictured), devised one of the gayest hit series featuring straight characters in television history. The lives of the glamorous central characters - and apologies here to gay readers who dislike the stereotyping as much as anyone - revolve around sex, shopping, gossip and bawdy humour. As City Journal has noted, the show is a Yellow Pages of Manhattan’s status fashion objects, including Prada skirts, DKNY jeans and shoes by Manolo Blahnik and Jimmy Choo. “The heroines lust after these pricey and au courant accoutrements of success ... They size up men with a similarly calculating eye for surfaces.”
While Sex in the City has thrived on sharp, witty writing and its clever dealings with the struggle for love, it’s part of a subtle shift on US television. As The New York Times noted two years ago, openly gay writers and producers have been transforming TV comedy since Ellen came out in the late 1990s. The result has been hit sitcoms such as Will & Grace and “lots of nudging and winking” in shows focusing on heterosexual characters.
Even in less accepting times, many saw old shows such as The Odd Couple, Cagney and Lacey and The Golden Girls as having a gay sensibility, even though the central characters were heterosexual.
And what about Frasier? One gay spokesman, as quoted in The New York Times, saw it as a show about “two stereotypical gay men, except they sleep with women”.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/02/09/1076175068807.html