Sex And The City features four girls who became friends in New York City; Charlotte, Samantha, Carrie, and Miranda. The show follows the work lives, love lives, and friendship between these four women. When reading the title of the show one might conceive its a show full of smut, which isn't all false but the show also has a lot of redeeming qualities. Through friendship these four come to power, wealth, and love.
Throughout the show these four women are show having breakfast, lunch, and dinner once every so often to discuss men, sex, relationships, and work issues. (As a child these type of discussions is what I imagined women having when they went to the bathroom together.) During these meetings they would provide insight on the other's issues and explain a situation they had been through which was similar. A very effective way of helping one another out, in my opinion. These four had a strong bond, and through this bond have been there for one another in times of financial debt, weddings, birth, adoptions, deaths, and heartbreaks, you name it.
These are possibly the four best friends that anyone could have. This dynamic bond was based around how different the four women were. Carrie was a writer, she was very modest about her sex life, lived a extravagant lifestyle. Miranda was a lawyer, married to her job, and had a child. Charlotte started off the show as a art director for a museum but ended up getting married converted to Judaism, adopted a child, and became a house wive. Samantha ( the true star of the show in my opinion), was a well known publicist who slept with A LOT of men, and did not believe in relationships or love just sex. And of course the they all had a passion for fashion and boy did these women have taste.
While these four had their ups and downs, financially, emotionally, and have even fought they had always sought out their problems and helped each other in any way they could. I feel like this show sends a positive message to the female community. It is rare for any female to have a group of female friends they can rely on these days. Most of the girls I know all hate each other. Girls now view women as competition for men, which is just sad in my opinion. Instead of joining together, they have turned on one another. This show says that women can be friends and can survive without the need of a man, as long as they have good friends. I feel like this message can provide relief to many people who believe they need to find a soul mate to fulfill their life's destiny, when really you can get by and be happy with just really great friends.
This show explains the coming of power, wealth, and love for these four women who got there all thanks to the help of one another. In class we discussed this as being "queer", and yes I agree on paper I can see how one might mistake this set-up as being "queer". Actually watching the show and viewing their chemistry one would see more of a family than a "queer" relationship. This show is not only just about sex, its about dating advice, fashion, life lessons, heartbreak all rolled into one excellent show.
(I have seen almost every episode of Sex And The City, so i guess you could call me a huge fan. My mother and I would watch the show back in 1998 every night before bed. I must admit that it might seem rare for a 7 year old to find interest in such a show but then again I was no normal 7 year old. What really grabbed my attention about the show was the four ladies extreme tasteful fashion. This show is the reason I hope to go into fashion journalism after college.)
I agree that it is a postive representation of women. I am a huge fan of this show and many times I emulate the character of Carrie. She is a strong woman writer and is not afraid to show how gutsy she is. In the womens conversation, it is also gutsy. Sometimes I wish real women would be more brave and talk like the girls on sex and the city; it would be more realistic. The women on sex and the city represent how real women should be and how they should be depicted.
ReplyDeleteDefinitely, this is a good example of positive portrayals of female relationships. I'm right up with you on watching shows with my mom. I've only seen a few episodes of Sex and the City but my mom, my sister and I used to watch shows like desperate housewives all the time. I was always fascinated by how women interact with each other and how different their friendships can be.
ReplyDeleteMy mom and sister used to complain all that the time that its harder for women to be friends and I'm not sure if its just because of competition. It also has to do with the way that they communicate their emotions. I did find, however, when I started dating my girlfriend, after a while her friends didn't hang out with her as much. Which is probably due to jealous. Not jealously of her neccassarily, but jealousy of me. I always founds women easier to be friends with then men. But that's just me.