Sex and the City is one of those shows that I loved as a teenager but it's become unwatchable for me as an adult, especially after discovering radical feminism. As a non-straight woman this might not be my place to volunteer this opinion, but I kind of just find it depressing that these beautiful, successful women's entire lives seem to revolve around men.
To be fair, Carrie's literal job is writing a sex and dating column so I guess it's pretty unfair to criticize her for her insane focus on men. But things like Samantha having sex at work and giving random delivery men oral sex? That's not empowering to me. It felt embarrassing. Like someone who was obsessed with porn wrote the script.
I can see why it was progressive for the 90s, but I just feel like it hasn't aged very well. And the reboot is horrific, lol.
Candice Bushnell was the writer or at least the subject of the show. She came from a rich family who wrote the column Sex and The City. She was a real woman and a socialite in NYC.
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Sex and the City is one of those shows that I loved as a teenager but it's become unwatchable for me as an adult, especially after discovering radical feminism. As a non-straight woman this might not be my place to volunteer this opinion, but I kind of just find it depressing that these beautiful, successful women's entire lives seem to revolve around men.
To be fair, Carrie's literal job is writing a sex and dating column so I guess it's pretty unfair to criticize her for her insane focus on men. But things like Samantha having sex at work and giving random delivery men oral sex? That's not empowering to me. It felt embarrassing. Like someone who was obsessed with porn wrote the script.
I can see why it was progressive for the 90s, but I just feel like it hasn't aged very well. And the reboot is horrific, lol.
Candice Bushnell was the writer or at least the subject of the show. She came from a rich family who wrote the column Sex and The City. She was a real woman and a socialite in NYC.