Sex and the City Not Just for Women
This summer male moviegoers are supposed to be all geared up for The Dark Knight, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and The Incredible Hulk.
Count me in. I’m a guy, and I grew up watching all these iconic characters. Just try to keep me away from the theater to see them.
But I also can’t wait for the film version of Sex and the City. Am I the only straight man who will buy a ticket — willingly, without a girlfriend or wife tugging on his arm all the way — to see Carrie Bradshaw and her shoe-shopping mates?
The Los Angeles Times reported last week that “it’s easier to find $2-a-gallon gas than a straight man eager to see” the upcoming Sex and the City movie.
The media maelstrom sure would like to confirm just that, focusing on the show’s fashion sense, the grrrl power bonding between the leads and the various hairstyles offered up during the show’s original run.
Don’t be fooled. The HBO series drew accolades for its promiscuity and Seinfeld-like catch phrases (“he’s just not that into you” among them). But I watched each week to see four smart, driven women dealing with life and love and their infuriating knack for messing up those very issues.
Now, I wouldn’t sit through Beaches, the mother of all chick flicks, on a dare. But I’ll happily channel surf onto a Sex and the City repeat and not so much as glance at my remote. That’s because there is a profound difference between the two. For a metaphor any guy can understand, it’s like enjoying some generic zombie movie on late night cable and then watching George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead.
No comparison. Lumping Sex in with other inferior projects aimed directly at women does the show, and its audience, a disservice.
On the surface, Sex and the City should be an easy sell for the gents; four attractive, fit women running around the Big Apple with hedonistic pleasures around every corner. I’m surprised the audience wasn’t entirely men from episode one.
Then came the chatter. Those gals sure like to talk. But like HBO’s guy bonding show Entourage, these ladies spoke like real women, or at least women with really active libidos. They worried about dating, their rickety self images and what being 30-something and single meant in modern society. (Hint – it wasn’t good.)
Except Samantha, played with an inextinguishable spark by Kim Cattrall. She seized the day, every day, morals and sexual diseases be darned. The three lead characters needed Samantha as an example of the fun they could be having when they let their guard down, but ultimately her character represented the weakest link of the quartet, realistically speaking. She was a man in high heels, existing more for wish fulfillment than as a pragmatically conceived character.
Still, Samantha’s mojo was more than balanced by Charlotte’s pragmatism, Miranda’s stoicism and Carrie’s romanticism. Just describing them is like recalling actual people full of flaws and promise. And how often can a show trot out three-plus characters who could be described in that fashion?
Men avoid Sex the movie at their own peril. Good art — be it a record, theatrical performance or painting — sheds light on the human condition and we’re all the better for it.
Now, Sex and the City was far from perfect, and even labeling it as art makes me feel a bit uneasy given some of the show’s less graceful moments. Plus, the later seasons became sudsier than a Days of Our Lives marathon, and the show’s finale wrapped up every loose end in the tidiest of bows. Part of what made Sex special was that the problem du jour wasn’t always solved within a 30-minute span.
Carrie, a career defining role for Sarah Jessica Parker, made jaw-dropping mistakes throughout the show’s run. This made her achingly real to fans and critics alike. How could she cast aside Aidan (John Corbett), the wood worker with the heart of gold? Why did she let a perpetual adolescent like Mr. Big (Chris Noth) back into her life so many times?
But those imperfections helped fortify the notion that Sex was unlike any other show on cable or broadcast television.
So let’s put societal notions about chick flicks aside and raise an Apple Martini to the girls of Sex and the City. That means you too, fellas.
Dude, wtf are you smoking?
Didn’t read the article. Never seen the show and don’t know anyone who has. But I never stop hearing the hype for it. Somebody is doing a good job of promotion. I don’t think anyone watches TV anymore.
Stp
That was nauseatingly chirpy.
Didn’t read the article. I’m sure having to listen to them wasn’t considered a reason not to go.
“…made her achingly real.”
Face it, Dude — you’re gay. NTTAWWT.
I am a 35 year old woman and I LOVED SATC (and will probably go to see the film in the cinema at least 3 times), but I also think it was probably one of the most dangerous shows on television.
I loved the show and have the box set and watch it over and over again. But I am a smart, professional woman. I realise that at the end of the day this show is just that – a television show, ie fantasy.
Guess what guys – intelligent, well bred women in their 30s dont talk like that. We talk about politics, our careers, stress. And yes, we do talk about men, clothes, movie stars, etc. But we don’t use the words “c*ck”, “d*ick”, “f*ck”, etc.
And their behaviour is just too dangerous. There are hardly ever any implications in the show….Samantha gets breast cancer in the last series. Yet with her sexual history, in reality she would have been more likely to develop cervical cancer. Sorry, it’s too politically incorrect, and therefore intolerable, to point out that there could be some kind of ramifications attached to sleeping around indiscriminately.
And Carrie and her expensive shoe obsession. Guess what, any half-wit should know that if you’re on a mediocre freelance (ie not guaranteed) salary you dont spend $400 on a pair of sandals. Oh but, wait a minute – there’s always a Mr Big to come along and pull you out of the poverty trap……again no ramifications.
And glamourous? I mean come on, these are four women who have hardly been outside of the island of Manhattan. What’s so glamourous about that? I’ve lived and worked on 3 continents, I’ve been on safari in Zimbabwe, and drove solo around New Zealand. I’ve seen the Terracotta warriers and climbed Ayers Rock. I’ve white-water rafted on the Zambezi and climbed a glacier. Who do you think would have more interesting stories to tell?
So while I love the show (and, yes, New York is my favourite city) I really do wish people would take a reality check when it comes to SATC and treat it for what it really is – an escape from reality, nothing more, nothing less.
You must suspect that there is actually something more to life than getting laid . Right ? This is not too difficult to figure out. If the only measurable and worthwhile effect of being a free adult is to indulge in intercourse then I would suspect you need to dig a little to find out what the consequences are.
Once women move beyond the first experience they become adulterers.When they began doing it for gain they become prostitutes . When they start doing in for the cameras they become porn queens. When they are doing it for excitement they are embarked on a road headed for hell.
No one can screw their way heaven . And for our free society to portray this destructive behavior as the most desirable expression of a womans sexuality is to ignore the fellow sitting in the directors chair over there. Look closely. Look carefully. Does he look a little familiar?
Salt Lick – LMAO. Just reading this article, I knew the comments would be funny. I bet Christian love’s to go shopping for shoe’s with the gals. NTTAWWT.
I’m with the rest here, there is absolutely nothing that appeals to me about this movie. I would rather see Speed Racer a fifth time than see Sex. Plus we got Indy, we got Journey to the Center of the Earth, the Hulk, Iron Man, Hancock….. This is going to be a very loud summer at the movies. If I want to watch women indulging themselves, I’ll take my wife out barhopping. She’s a lot more exciting than these women are.
As Peter Griffin said, “It’s a show about three hookers and their mother.”
That these women are intelligent is debatable, to say the least. I know female CEO’S, Attorney’s, Stockbrokers, and other professionals, and few of them behave in the way these girls do.
The one’s that love this show and do behave this way are a mess.
Not a good influence on young ladies or young men…
Yes – let’s go watch a movie based on a TV show about four selfish, clueless, promiscuous women who wouldn’t know true love if it walked up and smacked them upside the head.
They can’t find true love? Maybe it’s because they’ve been so busy seeking cheap neurological thrills through sex and shopping that they can’t see men as other than objects to be – well, you know – instead of as fellow human beings, one of which to accompany on life’s journey.
Count this 52-year old, 30-years married woman out of this nauseafest.
I’d rather watch Ishtar 1,000,000 times in a row than waste 2 hours of my life sitting through this morally ambiguous crap. Mr. Toto is living proof of the feminization of men by the feminist culture.
Good looking? Dude, you need your prescription checked. Maybe the skanky ho look plays well in the blue states, but out here in the red states a skanky ho looks like a skanky ho.
I wouldn’t let my dog mount any of them and my dog, who isn’t known for his reticence in such matters, would no doubt thank me later.
“. . .these ladies spoke like real women, or at least women with really active libidos.”
Which is to say like gay men.
Quit your whinning please! Sex was a great show. Smartly written, funny as hell and with a lot of insight into the female mind. Yes, even smart accomplished women can behave like insecured teenagers waiting for a guy to call. Sheila, if you don’t know any, not sure what planet you come from. Don’t mean to be confrontational, and I do agree that the behavior exhibited is dangerous for young women. I don’t appreciate twentysomething ladies and even late teenagers aiming for the Sex and the City life. Women (and men) make bad choices and anyone looking for moral guidance in a TV show is seriously misguided. However, the show was about thirtysomethig women. Mature adult women dealing with life. Yes, there was a lot of fantasy involved: the shoes, the clothes, the gorgeous men…but that’s what makes for good entertainment. “Entourage” is nothing but the male version of SATC…does that mean that every twentysomething actor in LA gets to hang out and make out with Britney like pop starts? No. So what?
Please, do not bash SATC, especially if you have never seen it. It was awesome and although I don’t expect the movie to be as good as seasons 1-3, I’ll still go see it if nothing more than for nostalgia.
Thanks for all the comments (and no, I’m not big on shoe shopping for myself or my wife). This show hits a nerve, doesn’t it?
Mature adult women? They’re 40-year-old children. Smartly written? Funny as hell? If you have a room-temperature IQ and the self-esteem of used toilet paper, maybe.
I figure real “red-blooded American males” might watch it (with the sound OFF) if they flip across it on cable one night, but most “red-blooded American males” prefer pretty women. Eh.
I wouldn’t mind watching the movie if I didn’t have to see a giant Sarah Jessica Parker face on the screen for two hours. Ick!
My problem was summarized in the article’s teaser: “a movie about four good looking women running around New York City indulging their libidos.”
It was perfectly answered by mommynator: “a TV show about four selfish, clueless, promiscuous women who wouldn’t know true love if it walked up and smacked them upside the head.”
Thank you, mommynator.
The show, and probably the movie, is a mirror of some of the things that are wrong in our society. “Its all about me…” Two dimensional characters (sluts) who’ll drop their panties in a minute is rather boring. But, I bet it does well at the box office. What does that say about us? And what man in his right mind would want to get serious with women like these?
I live in NYC and I’ve seen these type of women up close – late thirties, well-preserved, manicured and coiffed, and SINGLE because they’re always thinking “the NEXT guy will be MR. RIGHT.” Life is compromise; marriage is work and Sex in the City was recognized neither fact.
that knock at the door is the authorities. please hand over your man card.
I can’t believe all this judgmental nonsense about women exercising their sexuality…when men do it, they are celebrated (Gene Simmons has a whole new career out of it)…and if any of you ever watched the show you would see that these women actually faced consequences for their choices (heartbreaks, divorce, money troubles). If women (or men) where as matured and perfect and the ideals you all appear to have, there wouldn’t be a whole industry of self help products…yes, selfish society, but when I watch TV I don’t mind a little entertainment and something to think about…
P.S. When I said mature, I meant as in age (as opposed to 20 yr old girls running around trying to be Samantha, which I don’t like)…as for my IQ, it got me into lawschool.
H Tuttle:
It’s obvious you’ve never seen the show…I agree, life is compromise and marriage is work. Charlotte found that out when her marriage to Mr. Perfect went sour…right at the honeymoon. Miranda learned to compromise and appreciated a partner who was much different from her expectations. Even Samantha learns that she cannot continue bed hoping forever and settles for a guy who loves her (a gorgeous model hunk but that’s the fantasy part)…as for Carrie, she becomes financially responsible and actually tries an adult mature relationship with the Russian…I’m done. If you want to hate it, go ahead…it’s not everyone’s cup of tea…
“as for my IQ, it got me into lawschool.”
Which proves nothing. It has been at least a century since Law represented a higher course of study. Now if you had said Cryogenics, astrophysics , Quantum mechanics or even Engineering I would be impressed. Anything that requires serious study.
Law schools don’t get the dregs, like Journalism schools do, but don’t think for even a second a Law Degree requires the effort that astrophysics does.
Anybody watching a TV program DESIGNED to appeal to the lowest common denominator BY definition fits into that group.
That is my opinion, of course.
The reason there are so many Lawyers in America today is because a Law Degree is so easy to get.
My main beef here is that none of these dried up cosmetic surgery poster “wymyn” are attractive at all.
“Am I the only straight man who will buy a ticket — willingly, without a girlfriend or wife tugging on his arm all the way — to see Carrie Bradshaw and her shoe-shopping mates?”
Yes.
Mr. Toto,
You have mail:
http://wearyman.blogspot.com/2008/05/letter-recently-received-by-mr.html
No, dude, you’re not gay, but you’re wrong. While lots of weird men and media fools fawn over this ridiculous show, it IS a bad influence on young girls. There is no debate here, and evenmy most “liberal” friends do not let their daughters watch this show until they’re 16, perhaps 18.
This show is destroying the lives of innocent teenage girls so that they think random sex, expensive shoes, drugs, alcohol and a lack of respect for morals, is a-okay. See here:
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/story?id=4895398&page=1
The creators of this show, many others at HBO, MTV, NBC, etc, should be ashamed. So should any parents who allow their girls to watch this.
But yeah, priests, “big oil” and boy scout leaders are the real dangers—so says the media and secular automatons that live in our cities and suburbs.
I think Mr. Toto may also have some frillies that he puts on when Mrs. Toto pulls out her riding crop and breeches.
Yuk!!
“sex and the city not just for women” but also for dogs. Just imagine a pack of in-heat female and male dogs in the city, you’ll have “Sex in the City”, with a large female and possibly small male audience paid to observe. A man that watches this crap more than likely an army of feminity invaded his psyche for good. Where as any woman that watches this shit is un-marriage material. Most likely the majority of the western civilization. The actresses, actors and the characters portrayed in this toilet bowl disgust me….always have.
we fellers can watch dumb whores anytime we want for free on the internet
Nice try Christian, but you’re gay. Really gay. I mean, I’m a little bit gay, but you…any guy who would write “I watched each week to see four smart, driven women dealing with life and love and their infuriating knack for messing up those very issues.” is…well…you’re really gay.
Attractive? ATTRACTIVE? None of them are even remotely attractive to a guy in his late 20′s.
Is this supposed to be satirical?
Here are the numbers you need to know: 42, 43, 43, 52.
“Thirty-something”? “Forty-something”? Get a clue. Kim Cattrall is 52.
Christian, you may be straight but you apparently have mommy issues. I’m 51, and I appreciate the beauty of the 50ish woman, but the saga of their libidos will not draw me to the cineplex. Or to HBO, for that matter.
If the makers of S&tC had wanted men to show up, they should have recast with some actually nubile women….
BBB
If not for the fact that only one of them (the brunette) is actually good-looking, you might have a point.
“Plus, the later seasons became sudsier than a Days of Our Lives marathon, and the show’s finale wrapped up every loose end in the tidiest of bows.”
Get out in the sun more. It will boost your testosterone levels back up closer to normal.
“four good looking women running around New York City”
OK, so someone please tell me which of these four women are supposed to be hot. I look at them and I see the antidote to Viagra.
“This show is destroying the lives of innocent teenage girls so that they think random sex, expensive shoes, drugs, alcohol and a lack of respect for morals, is a-okay.”
Jeezus, guy, these shows are the equivilient of R-rated movies. Of course you wouldn’t let your teens watch Sex.
But I did, and I had a hell of a good time watching, too. Especially the tantric sex episode.
And before everyone’s blood pressure redlines, just repeat over and over: “This is fiction. It is not real life. ‘The Sopranos’ is fiction. ‘Deadwood’ is fiction. What I see on my television set is fiction. Even the news shows.”
Repeat until you feel better.
The show hits a nerve? I don’t think it’s that controversial.
It has a predictably smart script: decent, tongue-in-cheek. But it’s nothing extraordinary and after a few episodes, I feel it gets subtly smarmy.
The issue is that these women are miserable self-destructive skanks who try too hard. I am embarrassed for them throughout the episodes I’ve seen.
From my limited personal experience, whether someone likes this show has been a fairly good indicator of douche-baggery in the person’s character.
No self respecting straight man should bother with this show, and, also no self respecting straight woman like me ought to either.
For me it was interesting to watch the few episodes I did, because I psychoanalyzed the mind of the writer and it was fun to find the semi obvious ways in which the creator was screwed up and miserable. It reflects throughout the show.
“4 good-looking women?”
I’ve always found the SITC girls not only unattractive, but vaguely repulsive. Horse-faced Carrie is just the tip of the iceberg. The redheaded one is a bitter shrew, the slutty one is just used looking, the mousy one is a dowdy, slump-shouldered whiny little bitch. No wonder Kyle couldn’t get it up for her.
Those women are the exact opposite of sexy.
Hey Sheila, I’m convinced, can I call you?
I wish I were interested in this series/film, but I’m not. I’m so un-interested in it, even the spoilers bore me.
“I live in NYC and I’ve seen these type of women up close – late thirties,..”
Late thirties? Hah! They wish! If they’re in their thirties then they must be some smoked-out, coked-out, bar-fly, rode-hard-put-away-wet, …oh wait..that IS them.
Nevermind.
This is a chick flick. Not even close. Toto, you should have discussed this subject with your friends before posting this for all to see.
I watched only a few episodes of the program and my reaction was the same after reading a few issues of Cosmopolitan magazine, if this is how women think…who needs them?
Of course this is fiction. If it were real life, the extra super-slutty one would have a permanent herpes sore on her lip among other things.
The movie version of a tv show dedicated to the foulest of base attitudes? A celebration of promiscuous women with loose morals and even looser skirts? An exploration of the vapid paradigm that it’s quite normal, nay encouraged, to engage in the type of behavior that men since the 50′s have been crucified for engaging in. You (the author) seem to have a strange facination with women devoid of any sense of self-respect, personal responsibility or heck, even a shred of decent decision making ability. If ego-centric women are your cup of tea, good luck with that. Thank God it’s just entertainment because after how ever many seasons and a movie of their lifestyle, in reality every one of them would have at least one STD. I guess you can just stash your “topical cream” next to your metro hair products. I’m sure the rash will go away in no time.
Why do people keep peddling this idea that these women are “good looking”? I see one fairly attractive girl and three hideous, geriatric succubi slutting around New York.
Four good-looking women? Where? At best you have one. Carrie looks like a horse. Samantha was cute when she was young I am sure, but now she looks like she has been rode hard and put up wet – which we all know she has been. And Miranda is anything but attractive. In fact, in real life there is no way Miranda ever got the dates she got with all those good-looking men in the series. Not to mention her personality which would drive off even those guys slumming for sex. That leaves Charlotte, who pretty decent if you like flat-chested women.
Lots of gay men might find them attractive though. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
I personally can’t get too bothered by the notion of a woman having a strong libido. Or enjoying going out and having a good time. Or even liking “the finer things in life”. No, the real issue here is that these “women” (the author of the original books had even complained that the characters had become a gay man’s fantasy of being a woman) are repulsive. They’re not attractive. They’re vapid, arrogant, and spoiled. And, one can imagine it being painful to try to hold an even marginally intelligent conversation with any of them. Are we expected to somehow be impressed?
These are four woman who are not beautiful and I want no part of this movie. The TV show was anti-male and in a universe I want no part of. No man should see this movie and the woman who want should understand that the world that is shown is an alternative universe.
Ahh the internet. The place where people get to publicly criticize others that disagree with them while they remain annonymous.
“Dude you’re gay” “Hand over your man card” Man these guys are cool. The neanderthals have spoken. Amazing that they can stop dragging their knuckles on the floor long neough to type.
Now I’ll give them something to rip on me for. Annonymously of course. I’ve seen the movie already. A somewhat entertaining chick-flick that had its plot problems but wasn’t the worst way to spend a couple of hours. Open your minds a little and you may actually enjoy some harmless entertainment.
Dude, that was gay. Really gay.
Discussing the societal impact from the show is a worthy issue – are they role models? Is this how the modern woman should live? But shouldn’t we do the same with “The Sopranos?” I bet grown men would bawl if Tony got whacked, but he led a lifestyle no one should emulate. TV shows and movies shouldn’t be the exclusive domain of the righteous. Dealing with flawed characters makes for great drama.
Good point on the Sopranos. I never “got” that show either. It’s one thing to look at a lifestyle ala “The Godfather” or “An Unmarried Woman”. But when you built a weekly show around these characters and “humanize” them it really doesn’t say much for the viewer. “He’s just like me except he kills people occasionally, or she’s like me except she’s an uber-whore”.
It really does demean you. What next? The lovable flasher or subway butt-grabber? I’m sure we could write them as sympathic but troubled characters too. The line gets ever pushed in a more disturbing direction.
China: Stop the 8 year persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China!
“Dealing with flawed characters makes for great drama.”
I’m really growing weary of hearing this one. Entertainment media has raised character flaw exploration to a boring, whiny new art. Using this thinking has gotten us to a point where it’s very difficult to find entertainment that includes main characters with any capability of showing any kind of restraint whatsoever.
“TV shows and movies shouldn’t be the exclusive domain of the righteous.”
Spare me. In the entertainment media, weakness has become an exlusive, revered trait for it’s “drama producting” potential. It’s is now predictable and therefore, tedious.
Why watch TV anyway? You can get a life. Just turn off the boob tube and go do something….anything.
If you are into dried up skanky ol’ ho’s, there is a whole world full of them out there. On a positive note, they don’t swell, they don’t tell and they’re grateful as ‘ell.
GB – I agree the ‘character flaw’ tradition can lead to a flood of stories in which doing the right thing becomes an afterthought – or worse, something to be critiqued in mainstream circles. There’s gotta be balance. But I’ll go back to “The Sopranos” example. It’s a great show with incredibly complex characters. Tony loves his kids, but he murders people to put a roof over their heads. That’s compelling, if done right. Thankfully, “The Sopranos” was done right.
The show HAS a strong middle school and high school girl fanbase. Yes. You read right. Partly due to the TBS “sanitized” re-runs (they took out the explicit sex) and partially due to the HBO run (middle schoolers would watch it on demand when they got home).
I don’t know what is worse for young girls, the materialism and rampant consumerism and luxury good fetish, the idea of marrying-up to wealth, or the seize the day attitude towards sexuality.
Women are not men. There’s a reason the saw says divide a man’s claimed sexual partners by three and multiply a woman’s by three. Men and women have different ways of evaluating potential sex partners and potential mates. Neither are done any favors by encouraging a consumerist approach to sex. But it’s probably far worse for young women.
I think shows/movies about women looking for love, making dramatic choices, living with consequences, and understanding basic truths about how men and women interact and marry, is pretty exciting. Jane Austen mined that vein and is popular hundreds of years later. But SaTC, written by mostly gay men and encapsulating a gay man’s idea of a woman (particularly Samantha) isn’t it.
“Samantha was cute when she was young I am sure, but now she looks like she has been rode hard and put up wet – which we all know she has been.”
I will always have a soft spot for Kim Cattrall because of “Big Trouble in Little China”.
If the women of this show were “actually” attractive, I think more guys would watch. The only one I would consider sleeping with is the dark-haired girl. Cattral is too old and I would be too afraid of catching something, Carrie is skinny, unattractive, and neurotic, and I have had some law professors who look better than the red head….which is very pathetic.
I have seen the show once, all I saw was 4 women running around shopping, screwing, and telling stories about it.
And the comparisons to “The Sopranos” do not hold. The life of a mobster is clearly abstract; most guys can’t relate to the decision of whether or not to whack somebody. Therefore, the influence is not that great.
On the other hand, fans of SATC tout the multiple similarities and multiple points of relatability as their resons for liking the show. Therefore, the influence is likely to be great since the viewers will probably be confronted with similar situations as the characters in the show.
Even Marge Simpson has recognized 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.
Turn in you man card.
Chris,
That reminds me of an article I once read (sorry, no idea where to find it). The author said that SATC WAS originally intended to be a story about a bunch of gay guys.
For whatever reason, they thought they would have less problems telling homosexual stories if the characters weren’t actually gay. (Not sure I quite understand this myself). So the show ended up being a story about male homosexuality substituting female characters behaving like gay men.
At least this was supposedly how it started out. I’m sure it probably developed a different tone once it became a hit.
Don’t know whether to believe it or not, but that’s the rumor. Interesting, I didn’t know the Simpsons had mentioned it.
I’ve seen very little of that show, but I did see one scene that kind of stuck.
Samantha (I think) was doing some kind of striptease or lingerie show at a firehall. The firemen are all hooting and hollering enjoying the show. Then the alarm goes off and suddenly she’s either ignored or pushed aside as the firemen rush to work. Then she’s left standing there in her underwear looking very old and forlorn.
That show was stupid and immoral.
I think that this was a great movie….. it reminds the womon out there who have been endlessly hurt that there is still hope. Look at Carrie she was hurt how many times? Yet she still found love and it was Mr.Right! Charlotte’s marrige…its no different than the marrages today. She works at it everyday during ups and downs. Samantha she just knows how to have fun. Like many wemon do. I mean how many can say they havent been like samantha every now and then. As for Miranda thats just another woman who deals with the hardships of being married and what goes along with that. These wemon all together do what many of us wish we could do sometimes. Go out and remember the single life when we had it. It shows the power wemon have. And the even stronger power of 4 wemon who were friends through the thick and thin.