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.
