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Originally posted by dtb
SATC was cool -- it was "fantasy" in many respects, but most definitely connected to reality on certain levels. I'm not saying it was Proust, or anything particularly highbrow, but did resonate with me and many other women in tangible ways ... I don't think it's that we want to BE those girls, but that aspects of each of them are recognizable in us and others we know.
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Interesting. I (and my cronies) basically watched SATC just to see how the show depicted NY Gals and we all felt that for the most part it was far far removed from reality. I'm curious what resonated with you. For gals well into their 30's, they seemed so immature to me. They'd talk about "issues" that most girls had already resolved in high school, like, "can women and men just be friends only?" Even the show's racier topics were dispensed with in high school/early college (like you-know-what being chunky. ) Considering you are highly educated, successful, well-grounded, and fabulously thinner and hotter than the four of them, I can't imagine what you feel in common with them.
OK I know it was just a "show" but what was really entertaining was watching how delusional things on the show became sometimes. Take for instance Mr. Big's dumping SJP to marry that other chick. The episode ended dramatically with SJP "discovering" that Mr. Big was simply "scared" of SJP's independence and strong will and that's why he was leaving her. Um...ok. Whatever gets you through the night, but...sorry ladies, but men don't scare off like that. Same goes for the delusional, "You were just too pretty for him; he felt threatened". No matter how fat, bald or old a man is, no woman can ever be "too pretty" for him. This is simply what women say to console each other when a man decides to move on to someone he likes better. Another amusing delusion: the gals (at age 38) saying they "think" they might want to bear children "sometime in the future".
PS - there were I agree some funny moments like Miranda's date bolting red-faced when she tried to be a gamer about his spanking fetish (which he didn't know she knew about). This reminds me of a friend who awoke to find her boyfriend downstairs watching Spartacus with both hands under the blanket and a jar of open Vaseline on the couch with him. She tried to be "cool" and join in the fun but he was mortified and not having any of that. That would have made a good episode - they could have done the whole "Is He Automatically Gay If He Likes Spartacus"?
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