[Incorrigible]

 

Caught my wife reading this article in the paper this week.

 

[weegee]

To hear some on FR tell it, the show didn’t influence any behavior. Like all those single women ordering Cosmos.

Hollywood liberals claim that drug use and free sex in movies doesn’t influence behavior. But they do want all cigarette smoking removed because it makes it look glamorous.

[freedomrings69]

I always thought Sex and the City was a show that tried to do to much and never quite did any of the things it set out to. It tried to copy the Seinfeld genre of sitting around analysing the minutae of life over food or drink. At least Seinfeld was unpretentious enough to be doing it in a diner. It tried to be a comedy but was not that funny.

It tried to be dramatic but was lacking there. And it tried to be semi pornographic but never quite did that either. I know they managed to be quite successful without my support but that is my opinion. I sort of agree with Anne Coulter that it looked like it was written by gay men for gay men.

[psjones]

i don’t know anyone who watches the show. I tried watching it once, I don’t think i got through the hour.
As for the article, why is it that some people think the only way one can remain a size 0 or 3 is through excercise? As for paying $400 for a pair of shoes with heels that would send me running to take them off after wearing them for 15 minutes, no thanks.

[pabianice]

This is just plain dumb over-analyzing. I’ve enjoyed SATC. I’m also a Stargate and Star Trek fan, but I have never expected to live in those fantasy universes, either. Fiction is fiction. Entertainment for most, the basis of policy for Liberals.

[wbill]

"Four hundred dollars is a lot to spend on shoes in any situation — but if I love it, then it's worth it."

If I took out my all-purpose, Funeral-going, wedding attending, Interviewing suit...you'd be hard-pressed to find $400 worth of clothes in my closet. In total.

[Mercat]

I just bought some $250 cowboy boots. Does that count?

[goldstategop]

If your woman wants Manolo Blahniks or Christian Loubutins, time to dig out the wallet. You don't say no to the She Who Must Be Obeyed.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[Swordfished]

Anything that gets more young women in heels [rather than pantsuits] can’t be all bad!

[Catholic Canadian]

I thought only homosexuals watched this show?

[RedStateRocker]

My wife and I both have our ‘toy funds’, comprised of a small amount from each paycheck and any overtime. We ca spend on something stupid if we have it in th toyfund, and only then; I have about $600, looking to score one of the new Fender Precision bass 5 strings when I save up enough; wifey has about $1700, she hasn't bought anything but basic corporate casual work clothes in years.

[Bigg Red]

I suspect there are not any FReeper women who watch this kind of garbage.

[BallparkBoys]

If ALL the clientele was similar to the one in the picture, I think I need to change careers.....I could help them try on shoes all day long.......ggrrrruuuuuuffff......

[Jim Noble]

21st Century feminism: Defending a woman’s right to shoes.

[AnnGora]

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...

[NathanR]

"Everybody who has ever seen 'Sex and the City' thinks of it just as a giant conscience salve for shopping."

I think it is a conscience salve for sex

[Albion Wilde]

... the Hermes Kelly bags, popularized by Princess Grace in the 1950s...

I wouldn't be caught dead with an Hermes Kelly bag, even though they are now being resurructed in fuschia and crocodile: