I wouldn't be caught dead with an Hermes Kelly bag, even though they are now being resurructed in fuschia and crocodile:
Posted on 05/30/2008 10:17:52 AM PDT by Incorrigible
And we are supposed to believe there is a recession going on?!!! If you can blow $450 on a pair of shoes that don’t look any better than a pair on sale at Shoe Carnival for $19.99, then you need to quit whining about the price of gas...
I think it is a conscience salve for sex
The only reason I am going to a Sex in The City Viewing party tonight is because it will be filled with single women, all imbibing heavily on Cosmos.
I didn’t watch it the first time because I didn’t get HBO, but a lot of my friends did. When it hit syndication I started watching it and really liked it. Never made me want to buy a thing, though. In fact, I had the opposite reaction - these are beautiful, competent, funny women - why do they need to slap on a $500 pair of shoes or carry a $1000 handbag to feel good about themselves? My favorite episode is the one where Carrie gets the big advance on her book and buys her boyfriend a $500 Prada shirt, and he ends up leaving her at a theater premier because he realizes that he doesn’t care enough about money and labels to make her happy.
I wouldn't be caught dead with an Hermes Kelly bag, even though they are now being resurructed in fuschia and crocodile:
That's not necessarily true - I say no to mine quite often. Of course, I usually preface it with "OK, I'll get the [insert item here]; you cover the rent, the insurance, gas, electric, food, cable, and all the other niceties that you enjoy from day to day..." Her eyes are bigger than my wallet at times.
And about the supposed gay aspect that some have brought up, the series is about four women and their relationships, so apparently they haven't seen it either. In the six years it was on, there was only one "experimentation" as a lesbian by one of the characters (with absolutely none of the graphic sex scenes they normally have for hetero relationships), it was short-lived...IIRC, two half hour segments...and ended with that character realizing that wasn't the lifestyle for her.
There are two gay guys, Anthony (10 episodes only) and Stanford (28 episodes), that are the girl's friends, but they don't play a major role. They are not even a couple...they actually can't stand each other...and their individual sex lives are NEVER discussed nor displayed as the hetero relationships are. In fact, they are so stereotyped, they are hilarious to watch.
As far as it being "garbage", someone else besides me must have liked it...
Over its course of six seasons, "Sex and the City" was nominated for over 50 Emmy Awards, winning seven times. Among the Emmys the show won were two for Outstanding Casting for a Comedy Series (Jennifer McNamara), one for its Costumes, a trophy for Outstanding Comedy Series for its third season in 2001, Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series in 2002 for the episode "The Real Me", and for its final season in 2004, Emmys for Sarah Jessica Parker (Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for the episode "An American Girl in Paris, Part Deux"), and Cynthia Nixon (Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for the episodes "One" and "Ick Factor"). It has also been nominated for 24 Golden Globe Awards, and won 8. Its wins included Best TV Series — Musical or Comedy, and Best Actress in a TV Series — Musical or Comedy, (Sarah Jessica Parker) for three consecutive years from 2000 – 2002, Best Supporting Actress in a Series, Mini-Series, or Movie for Kim Cattrall, and another one for Parker.
It’s hard to deny my wife her wish to buy the occasional nice pair of shoes after what I’ve spent on firearms and cigars.
I know multiple relationships what were destroyed by that show. It greatly influenced behavior in some of the women who got addicted to it. I saw it first hand.
From the “cosmos” girls nights out where they started pushing the limits on what was considered “cheating” on their bf or husbands to leaving faithful good men because the felt they were entitled to the Carrie Bradshaw lifestyle to dumping a bunch of debt from their shopping sprees on their men right before leaving them.
The true joke of it all was that, in real life, the actress who played Carrie Bradshaw was married and having children.
While in the end, its just a tv show, and any sane person should be able to realize the difference between tv and the real world, that show really did influence womens behavior in very strong ways.
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.
Entering its sixth season, Sex and the City has been analysed from every perspective. It has sparked debate, for example, about the sexual freedom of Carrie, Charlotte, Miranda and the lusty Samantha. Its frank language, catalogue of comical sexual perversions and emphasis on male romantic ineptitude have also attracted attention.
But much of the interest has focused on what Sex and the City says about single women, even four of the most upscale designer-label-and-new-restaurant-hungry females ever to appear in a television comedy.
Author Camille Paglia recently said the series was a victory for "the huge wing of us pro-sex feminists" over the "1980s anti-porn, anti-sex wing of feminists". Some see Carrie, the New York columnist, as a feminist icon for her candid struggles with uncaring, uncommitted males. Others see Samantha as the real statement about women enjoying sex as much as men once they detach from emotion.
But let's go back a few steps.
SATC creator Darren Star.
Dipping into the series over the years, I was always reminded of an old American theory about writing comedy - you write black and cast white. In other words, you add style and cool to your white characters by writing as though they were black. A variation is writing Jewish and casting gentile to add personality and humour.
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."
This hardly changed, even when Miranda had a baby.
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".
Wonder what Marge thinks about that?
You base your opinion on the Simpsons and one unknown fool’s assumptions that it “seemed the formula was to write gay male and cast straight female”? Wow...and here I thought Freepers had more depth than to believe everything they read without doing the research...maybe like actually watching it? That’s fine if the series it is not your cup of tea, just don’t throw crap like this against the wall and expect it to stick.
As far as it being “garbage”, someone else besides me must have liked it...
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Oh, okay, I surrender. Your description of the the sluts and their behavior has me swooning to watch it. And, of course, learning of its popularity really makes me understand now that it is right up there with other great works of literature such as “General Hospital” and “The Bachelor”.
No, no, no.
It's not that the women are lesbians.
The women, their values, their behaviors, their crises, are the values, behaviors, and crises of gay men.
There are no real women like these ladies. This is a story about the lives of gay men, presented in the only way it could go mainstream - by casting females to play the roles.
Hmm. Never thought of it that way, but it makes sense. Actually, I’ve never spent any time thinking about any aspect of that show, except for wondering who watched it.
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