OT: Wow, At Least One Other Woman Is Not A SATC Fan

[lazypadawan]

Back to annoy straight men and me are the Four Whores of the Apocalypse in their designer shoes, haunting a movie theater near you next Friday. The aging sluts/shopaholics go off to some Middle Eastern nation where they prance through the sand, sit around in fancy tents, and get captured by Al Qaeda. Can Big save them before they are beheaded? Should he save them?

Okay, so I made up the Al Qaeda stuff though it might have made for a more exciting film. Anyway, I'm not alone in my aversion to SATC, as displayed by this essay from the Telegraph.co.uk:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/7746119/Sorry-sisters-but-I-hate-Sex-and-the-City.html

Now, I don't care whether or not it is properly feminist. I just wonder what so likable about these awful self-absorbed, materialistic flakes.

Comments

[jordan179.livejournal.com]

I never watched the original TV show, and the character and plot summaries I've heard convince me that this is a good thing.

[bakednudel.livejournal.com]

I've never understood the appeal of that show. And have been annoyed twice by Entertainment Weekly devoting entire issues to their antics.

/straight female

[may-child.livejournal.com]

Good Lord...please tell me that the SATC women aren't held up as feminist icons! That scares, and disgusts, me almost as much as Mara Jade being held up as a feminist icon, which she is, by her followers. It's truly sad when a bad temper, a dark past, and a smart mouth are all that is required for a female character to be considered a feminist icon...personally, I see nothing feminist at all about Mara, since she got everything she has by latching onto powerful men, and slept her way to the unearned titles, prestige, and respect she was granted in the EUwwwwwwwwwwww.

I enjoyed SATC, but I saw it for what it was: a fantasy, in which the women rarely work but have all the money in the world at their disposal, and make no bones about their enjoyment of sex. To attribute anything deeper to it is to be much too generous, not to mention disingenuous. "Awful, self-absorbed, materialistic flakes" pretty much sums up what they really are, underneath the patina of pseudo-sophistication. Television without Pity summed them up in slightly different terms: the main character was "a neurotic, skinny shrieker monkey" and her three "mismatched friends" might as well have been named "Slutty, Prissy and Bossy."

[gizzi1213.livejournal.com]

Add me to the list of those women who has never understood the appeal of SATC!!!!

[kittandchips.livejournal.com]

I've never seen the show myself, but it sounds like any enjoyment I would get from it would only be from mocking the main characters.

That article raised some interesting points about the materialism in the show. It sounds like it would be hard to tell when the commercials end and the actual show comes on.

[imhilien.livejournal.com]

I never watched the show, and would feel like poking it with a stick if it came too close.

I remember reading a description of them as 'EveryWoman & Three Greek Goddesses' (can't remember which three).

Think your description is more accurate. XD

[pyramidhead316.livejournal.com]

That's a little harsh (the article), but I've never understood the appeal of the show either. The characters don't seem to be particularly feminist in any sort of way. And this latest idea for a film seems odd. Going to the Middle East? What the hell?

Did they get tired of the New York setting? Like IGN's movie section said, here come the obligatory camel jokes. >_>

[rhystuck.livejournal.com]

Our cousin Leesa left linked to an article where someone thinks the new movie is racist!