Alright, so I’m well aware this post is a few years behind, as now the show is over, but whatever. I needed to rant.
First, let me put this on the table and say, yes, i’ve watched the TV show Sex and the City. Specifically I think it was new years of 04/05 where I got extremely hammered and ended up being incapacitated yet conscious on my brothers’ then ex-girlfriends couch. Luckily for me, there was a SatC marathon on that night, and i couldnt change the channel. This is, and will be the only time I have ever watched more than 5 minutes of this show at a time, and those other times were because I was about to get laid i’m pretty sure.
Bottom line: This show sucks. It gives American women who already have a disproportionate sense of self worth even more delusions of grandeur. The show, for those of you who are lucky enough not to know, revolves around whore “columnist” Carrie Bradshaw”, whos column is named, you guessed it, “Sex and the City”, and narrates the show as if to come off as some pseudo-intellectual role model who can magically relate all of lifes problems and issues to something completely unimportant, say shopping, or a lack of an orgasm or something stupid like that. She and her other 3 slutty and unattractive friends (except Kristin Davis, who is a total sex-tape making hottie and whom I would have nailed like a boarded-up window on Z-Day, maybe 5 years ago) live in New York City and make their living by fucking everything with a pulse, spending ungodly amounts of money on shopping, and eating 3 hour lunches while drinking cocktails on a patio in the middle of the day. They also have fabulous NYC apartments, get invited to crazy parties with high society, and somehow get the attention of millionaires who apparently would rather fuck a 30+ high maintenance aging whore than a twenty-something model who would put out simply because you own your own car that cost over 25$k. Where do they get the money and time to afford all this as well as maintain the high cost of living in New York City? Well, there’s a simple answer for that, my friends.
THEY FUCKING DONT.
You see, despite what every girl who has ever majored in a position like “public relations”, “event marketing” or “event planning”, especially out west, thinks they’re going to be living spectacular lives with high paying jobs around in either LA or NYC, living the life of their dreams (read: HBO lies) after they graduate thanks to watching shit shows like this, and being gullible as a dumbass dog you pretend to throw a ball past and he keeps running after it every time thinks, real life doesn’t work like that. You will have to work, pay bills, and not be able to “go out for drinks” anytime you damn well please.
I know what you’re thinking; “But Sam, isn’t that level of unrealism in EVERY tv show? The main characters not really working at all, but instead focusing mainly on their personal lives out of work, and giving the characters some type of sinecure or low responsibility/high pay job in order to give the show more content?” Yes, of course i realize that dumbshit, why would I have just typed it if I didn’t? Thing is, I don’t see too much adults in their 20s and 30s hanging around the same couch/bench every day at a coffee shop downtown instead of working because they actually have to work and have jobs, and thats not really that glamorous even if they didn’t. What this show has successfully (and falsely) shown women is that not only is it okay to treat yourselves to undeserved shopping sprees because you had a “bad day”, or to blow off work in order to have “drinks with the ladies”, but that it’s COMPLETELY NORMAL AND EASY TO DO WITHOUT CONSEQUENCE.
Well, guess what bitches, it’s not. At all. Odds are you are going to graduate, realize how shitty the real world is compared to how you think it is in your wonderful imagination, and instead of working hard to make your dreams a reality, you’ll continue to mooch off of your parents for 5 more years, or worse some poor idiot who you sleep with to get to pay for your shit. This is commonly mislabeled as “dating” and “marriage”.
Just for fun, let’s go ahead and rip apart the trailer for the Sex and the City movie, something I would literally rather gouge my own eyes out with syringes filled entirely of HIV infected blood than see.
5 minutes later…
Wow fuck that. I refuse to watch that trailer ever again, and i’m not even going to subject you to it. Let’s just say it consists of some chick who looks like she is half horse/half post-op man Sarah Jessica Parker bitching about how she “let her wedding get too big”, how life isn’t really like a fairy tale and stupid ass girl talk jokes you really hope don’t exist but probably do because most women have the worst fucking sense of humor on the planet.
tl;dr? - Whoever created this show is a horrible, horrible person and I truly hope they get mauled by wolverines with Hillary Clinton masks on.