10 Reasons Why Sex And The City Sucks
Sex and The City is a terrible show. After being asked by 4 people if i’m going to see this movie, I had to write something about it.
Here’s 10 Reasons Why Sex And The City Sucks:
1. I don’t know what the word “sassy” means but SITC is supposed to be a sassy show about sassy broads. Virginia Slims are sassy. Mac Books are sassy. BMW convertibles are sassy. I don’t like sassy things.
2. SITC promotes the falsehood that talking crap about your boyfriend with your unhappy, unmarried, old maid friends means you’re working out your relationship problems. Telling your friends embarrassing things about your boyfriend or husband is a violation of your relationship. Imagine if he said that you smell bad when you have the red-vag. That’d be a funny story to tell over a round of cosmos eh?
3. Writing a diary, like the main character does when you’re pushing 40 isn’t introspective it means you’re immature. “Can you believe Todd read my diary?! (gasp)”
4. Sadly, many women lack what many people describe as “a personality” or “identity” and instead of actually developing one: tastes, ideas, beliefs, knowledge— all ingredients to a personality– they look to other women, movies, TV shows and magazines for guidance, oftentimes wholesale. In this case, Sex And The City is a terrible example for these bobble heads.
5. Sex And The City shamelessly lies to it’s (weakminded) viewers by promoting a lifestyle that is purely fictional, should not be imitated by anyone wanting a happy life, and will ultimately keep these same viewers glued to a TV fantasizing about a life they will never have: financial success, interesting partners, careers and personalities.
6. Dingbats think of themselves as a character in this show and correlate their friends to a character in this show. This is more annoying that Swingers references and no it doesn’t make it ok that you’d squat over a bush if you thought there was a snake in it because the redhaired lady on SITC is a skank too. She’s not a real person— not that you are either.
7. While preaching the “we girls gotta stick together” Thelma and Louise message, any casual observer would tell you that those women are terrible for each other and are standing in the way of each other’s growth and their ability to have meaningful relationships. But it’s like a self-cleaning oven, if you act like them, then you’ll always need your group of spinster cougars around to commiserate on how some guy just couldn’t hack it with all you have to offer.
8. This woman looks like Gargamel and I don’t like to look at her.
9. Sex And The City, like Dougie Howser MD, always ends with an introspective touching message that the head cougar writes on her Macbook. This is cheesy and tries to cull sense or meaning from the noise and stupidity. This helps dumb girls think that blowing some guy in a nightclub parking lot can be summed up as one of life’s speed bumps rather than “pretty gross that you blew some guy that wears underwear that is sold in a tube”.
10. The most pernicious lie that SITC wheels out is that being slutty, catty, boy crazy and “sassy” will help you succeed in life. Following the recipe for success demonstrated by Carrie Bradshaw and her pack of upwardly mobile metro cocksmiths will help you become successful like me drinking beer and watching the dodgers could be considered “Baseball Training”. It couldn’t, it’s actually counter- productive to any kind of success or happiness and that chick with red hair looks like Don Knotts with a wig on.
Update: Astute Reader Tannaz S. sent me this photo of Gargamel/Don Knotts with her lez girlfriend:
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you say that about every other post i write
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haha, gargamel! this was really enjoyable.
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thanks tom, nice to see you here
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I think the subject of this blog merited at least a bullet point though: http://www.sarahjessicaparkerlookslikeahorse.com/index.htm
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SJP, why the long face?
I’m really angry at what you wrote and I think you are a mean mean person. If you had a soul you would like sex and the city but since you are a souless minion of the devil I don’t expect you to anyway. Sex and the city will do very well no matter what your bitchy little mind can make up to try to spoil it.
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i really and truly hope you are joking…
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Wow. I hope this is someone being sarcastic. If so, good work. The IP address is from the UK.
If I can spoil sex and the city for just one person, I feel like i’ve done my job.
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These pathetic SITC individuals are excactly what give women the delusional idea that being a slut at age forty while picking up many STDs along the way is the prime direction to take in life. These sub human inferior life forms that are pure fiction are a blue print for today’s woman, failure, failure, failure. Message to American females: YOU ARE NOT ALL THAT. Get over yourselves, that’s why white males now marry foreign girls. Most of you are losers.
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You marry foreign girls to your own detriment. Watch as their giggly, faux feminine wiles disappear into thin air once they have hold of your bank account! And once they realize they too have the power to say no to picking up you dirty underwear,delivering you a cold budweiser and otherwise satisfying your every whim! That is why you don’t like American women; they
know who they are and what they really deserve.
Regarding ‘Satc’, I loved it. Why? Because of the pure fantasy factor it provided. Don’t believe for a minute that women really believe that that is what life is like! But after a long humdrum day of the usual b.s., who doesn’t want an escape? Don’t you have a show you like that is not based on reality?
For the record;I hated Carry’s squealing and running in high heels and most of her clothes.I hated that she married the jerk that left her at the altar. Charlotte was too prissy but had nicer clothes. Amanda was the most realistic and respectable, I found. I laughed the most at Sam’s one-liners, but cringed at her lack of insisting her partner ‘wear a hat’. The movie was terrible. In all, the show provided me with many laughs that helped me through a terrible time in my life, and what’s wrong with that?
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nice post; I agree with guffman32, possibly one of your best to date. I really like
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The show appeal to 40 something women who like fiction and live in fantasy land. WHO IN THEIR RIGHT MIND WOULD FIND ANY OF THESE MEN-WOMEN REMOTELY ATTRACTIVE?? Sex -objects at age 53??
The show was fantasy to appeal to the lowest common demoninator–single, bitter, old maids who bang anyone and anything all the while enjoying a good STD or too—-that is why many American men do NOT marry or marry foreign women –with class and dignity–not sluts in some fantasy Hollywood show.
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How do you know ‘foreign women all have class and dignity’? How do you know what they did before they came to grace your not so humble abode? Haven’t you heard of people who would do anything to be a U.S. citizen? Please do not make blanket statements about women of any kind, unless you’d like us women to make blanket statements about men…Yes, SITC is fantasy! That is what T.V. is all about! Escape and fantasy…Oh by the way, use ‘spell check’;you spelled ‘two’ too. And American women are more likely to take measures to prevent STD’s. Thank GOD you’re American, huh? And who isn’t bitter about something after the age of 40? You are, I’ll bet. I’m very happy to be single, by the way! ‘Old’ is a frame of mind, not a number. Enjoy the exercise on the way to the fridge and the washing machine!
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several months later, i still hate this show. just saying
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I have to concur! I hate this ridiculous show, and even the show’s theme song pisses me off. However…. Gargamel? Ha ha ha ha ha!
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this is an awesome post! i hate sex and the city for promoting promiscuity and bitchiness while claiming to portray “empowered” women. it’s especially disturbing that, since being syndicated on tbs, more and more little girls are watching this show. guess they’ll get a jumpstart on learning to be a whore…
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I couldn’t agree more with you, JJB. Sex and the City is the worst ever television show in television and media history to begin. That show is a negative portrayal of modern women. Carrie Bradshaw is no heroine at all. To me, she is more of a villian. She is a materialistic, narcissistic, selfish, shallow, spoilt and a loose homewrecker who steals someone’s husband for herself and only cares about spending, sex and her own needs. Therefore, as a young woman, I don’t understand why ladies my age look up to her.I prefer Penelope Garcia from Criminal Minds anytime than Carrie and co. Last but not least, Sex and City sucks!
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What a classy screen name, Jerk!
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good post. i hate shows like SITC were the woman are really bitchy to the guys but they are still showed as the good guys. also woman have really bad self esteem (i fail at spelling) and need to be constantly told that what ever they do in life is the right thing and that they are spiecle (i really do fail at spelling) because if they dont get told that they get all depressed and stuff.
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Please don’t write replies until you graduate from American High School or ESL classes, or, at the VERY least, use the ‘spell check’ feature on YOUR COMPUTER!!!
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i always hated this show i just couldnt find the words to express myself!
) i sending ur post to every SITC addict i know. cheers!
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Just exactly what I think about the show!
“Sadly, many women lack what many people describe as “a personality” or “identity” ”
………. it’s Sad but True.
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lol, go see the movie. If for nothing else because you get to see the red-haired chick naked and Id love to read your thoughts on that.
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From a girl who really never got the hype – thanks a LOT. This just sums up everything that was ever going on in my mind, when I zapped into an episode of this show. I got bored after only minutes and always wondered what poopheads could mistake that for real life. Being late in my twenties I really did not get the point.
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Awesome post. I like the way you think.
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thank fuck someone stood up against this piece of shit, my sister made me buy her a box set of this drivel for her christmas, in the immortal words of family guy ‘so its about three prostitutes and their mum’
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holy shit, she does look like gargamel. which is ironic, as the ringleader acts like smurfette.
nice review, you sexy sexy beast.
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It’s shows like SITC that make me wish I didn’t like HBO Originals so much, but damn, after “The Wire” or “Sopranos” how can you not?
How about that show “Entourage”? What do you think of that? It’s supposed to be based on Marky Mark’s life and all that, but from what I’ve seen, it could be SITC with dicks…with wall-to-wall gorgeous women which always, always helps.
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The worst part of the show is the desinger, yuppie, upscale New Yorkish girly blah attitude. Also how
the main characters seem to want to have people feel sorry for them. Sadly, a lot of sheltered women
think that they can live a interesting love life in NYC and eventually settle down, but ha ha, the city any city
is no place to find love. It’s a city maening everything is ten times faster and you’ll be meeting, on a date, hooking up and broken up faster than a cab spraying puddles on your designer shoes.
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You hit the nail right on the head!
Awesome post.
Not only is the show crappy, but why are so many girls trying so hard to imitate the characters?
My friend’s g/f went to see the movie. The entire female audience was dressed like the characters and all carried a cosmopolitain magazine with them.
They’ll make fun of men who dress up as Darth Vader to attend Star Wars movies. WTF is this? At least the Vader suit only comes out at those special occasions…these women are in SITC-mode 24/7!
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O.K, I’ll agree with that; I had a Japanese ex-room mate who would imitate Carrie’s facial expressions and clothes. I wondered what the hell that was about until I saw SITC.
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Thanks Mike. I’m not sure how you read it with the formatting so bad. Anyhow, I fixed it.
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Thank GOD someone else can see what a bunch of soulless, sociopathic materialistic harpies these skanks are. They are woman that any man in the real world would quickly run to the door from. Wow, how exciting, a bunch of slutty self absorbed goldiggers who deconstruct any men with a hope of being decent and go for the money and the looks every time. I was SOOO happy when they canceled this piece of garbage. It insults both women and men.
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Carlo, I cringe with embarassment at your grammatical errors. Remember, T.V. is meant to be an escape and a fantasy to take us away from the every day-ness of life. Please do not believe that all women seek to emulate these fictional characters. We do not mistake SITC for reality!
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3. Writing a diary, like the main character does when you’re pushing 40 isn’t introspective it means you’re immature. “Can you believe Todd read my diary?! (gasp)”
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She writes a newspaper column…not a diary.
fail.
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Jessica, get the vagisil out and shutup. Just because you’re loaded with sand doesn’t mean you have to ruin anyone else’s good time in here. Shew, shew, go away now. Shew!
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I’m sorry but that just makes it worse. Not only is she writing about being a 40 year old prostitute who doesn’t get paid, but she’s telling everyone else to do it as well? So sad
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I agree!
Anyways,keeping a diary is a great way to vent and it’s free. It’s called a journal when you get past your teens. Maybe if men wrote their feelings down or talked with their friends in a cafe once a week, they would not be so angry, spiteful, hateful, frustrated and violent!
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Fail eh.
Wow, I’m having a vision:
One day there will be a website and on said website people will create images of people making mistakes and will label them with a large type that says “Fail”. This website will become very popular and so much so even the term “fail” itself will become a household word, even to an annoying, repetitive degree.
And to think you started it all Jessica.
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hahaahahahaahhahahahaha
I appreciate your sarcasm.
I’m sure you appreciate me proving you wrong more though.
:p It’s all good, everyone has an opinion, yours just has defects.
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Might be a long time later, but I’m gonna comment: great post, and Jessica, you argue like a female–without logic or veracity. She might write a paper column but it’s still the same diary-like phony instrospection that aims to oversimplify and rationalize the terrible decisions and actions the characters make in the course of an episode.
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no problem… i appreciate the feedback. however i do not let myself get to close to my subjects of hate so that they do not become a part of me. so that is why i never noticed that she wasn’t writing a diary. also because i can’t imagine a newspaper would be interested in the musings of some spinster, but what do i know?
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Do you think you are immune to time and gravity?
Your sack will reach your knees just as my mammary glands will, eventually. You may even finish the race first. Ha. Ha.
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Entourage is a very clever series, every episode is very witty and the character Ari is so watchable.
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I love the comment on Family Guy:
‘This is at that show about the three hookers and their mom?’
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LMAO!!
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In one episode I sadly had to watch, Sarah jessica Parker throws away a cigarette… I could not stop thinking about that cigarette..
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I have to say that, as a woman myself, I find it pathetic that hoards of other females worship “Carrie” and her band of tramps. This show is so materialistic and is filled with 40-somethings with a vapid and clone-like mind-set.I’ve never been interested in this drivel and you won’t believe the number of times I have to tell some of my female friends that I won’t be accompanying them to watch they’re weekly SATC DVD sessions. In fact, the only DVD series that I’ve ever spent money renting, is The Wire.
Oh and of course, all these SATC fanatics/clones can’t believe it when I tell them, I’d rather watch The Wire or True Blood, rather than 4 idiots. Hey, that’s a good name for the show, should they decide to re-vamp it. “4 Idiots”.
Oh wait, there’s already another one: “Lipstick Jungle”. God help me.
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I have to say, I totally agree with you about this vapid, aspirational, superficial, amoral, introspective TV series. I think you are right when you say that anyone who emulates these women has their priorities all wrong, and it certainly is no recipe for long-term happiness in relationships or life generally. I am very puzzled by it’s ongoing appeal. I have just seen the promo for the second movie, and it is just so depressingly predictable. Carrie, having been furious that Mr Big had second thoughts about getting married on their wedding day, is now celebrating their second wedding anniversary and is bored, so toys with hooking up with someone else to get some “sparkle” back in her life. Meanwhile, Mr Big seems to have thought it out carefully and expected married life to be like this two years on. I just find these four women very, very high maintenance.
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On more thing. I saw an episode where Carrie Bradshaw basically created a rift in her relationship with a lovely author who had just had a book published (a very exciting event for anyone, and he should expect the wholehearted support o fhis girlfriend) and she basically ruined it by making a big deal out of the fact that one his female characters wore a scrunchie in her hair and Carrie insisted that “New York women don’t wear scrunchies”. I’m sorry, but that just takes superficial stupidity to a whole new level. I sat there just thinking, “I want to like this show, but when someone like her is the lead character – and the strongest character at that – what hope is there?”
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when this series came out I liked it for a few seasons – i liked that they talked about taboo topics in a funny way. But then of course as with any american show that becomes successful, they got full of themselves and it became about clothes and living a ridiculous lifestyle. It seemd that whatever outfit the girls wore it was fabulous! I swear they could have put “Carrie” in a garbage bag with a gucci belt and the next day you’d see girl after girl walking down the streets of manhatten in the same outfit. anyway I agree that the characters are ridiculous, and why is it that americans prefer to sit in front of the TV and fantasize about unobtainable lives instead of making the most of their own. I recently saw a preview of SITC2 and it looks like it’s going to be even more offensive and ridiculous as the last movie, which means americans will love it and want to emulate it. ok I’m rambling, anyway the show sucks and the characters are pathetic
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Rocko, i’m not familiar with Vintage SITC but I can’t imagine being a man and admitting to like the show. Although after I said that I do remember seeing an episode a really long time ago that was sort of funny and the gang was talking about using the restroom or farting in front of a guy. something like that, sorta funny.
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This could have been funny and insightful. It is not. It is a grammatical horror-show lacking the most fundamental knowledge of the English language (“it’s” as possessive?)Carrie Bradshaw’s “I couldn’t help but wonder,” pales by comparison. But it is your tone, your _loathing_ of older women that is truly disquieting. If you are a woman, do you believe you will not turn 40 some day? And when you do, will you look back at this and feel ill? If you are a man, you hate women, how trite. I suppose your show, about girls in bikinis who cannot speak intelligibly, is far better, and when is that on?
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Commonenemy… it’s instead of its isn’t grammar, it’s either a typo (in this case) or bad punctuation, but not grammar. Grammar means something else. If you had a better grasp of the language and what words mean you would know that. My _loathing_ (ha great punctuation there graybush) of older women.. hmm. I think this was referring to stupid women and not older women, necessarily. Disquieting eh. I would imagine most women who have self esteem or are successful in life would completely agree with me here. If anything, the point here is that these broads are not to be emulated. I wonder how many cruise line bartenders who can’t speak english have thrown it into your January of 1972 playboy bush
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Please re-read your post. You begin sentences with lower case letters. And, once again: do you really think time is standing still for you and not for us?
Call me when your sack is sagging and you need viagra and a good woman who doesn’t care about your sagging sack. Then again, don’t. Who wants a grouchy, smelly, hard hearted old man?
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Ok one thing, general consensus. Doesn’t SJP look slightly or remarkably like a horse?
I hate this show so I can give you 100 good reasons for not seeing the movie.
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There is a website called Sarahjessicaparkerlookslikeahorse.com
You should check it out.
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The worst thing about this show is that it is somehow depicted as empowering to women in some way. The show’s characters are two-dimensional cliched portaits of women who define themselves by their relationships with men and have no real character outside of banal consumerism and banal sexuality. As if somehow speed dating rich guys is some emblem of empowerment.
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This was a perfect rendering of this crappy ass show and even more horrid movie. I am disgusted by the whole idea of the show and it goes to show you how desparate some people are to live through television. The rotten shriveled up vages will never produce and Kim Catral is okay, I must admit I’d hit the brunette a few times til she spoke then it’d be done…. Sarah Jessica Parker’s face is a foot. And how can they let the red headed rover on tv is beyond my comprehension. Makes me think I myself am model material. What a sham of a show. I’m glad someone had the power to post this on the net. Thanks man and keep up the good work!
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Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. I’ve been quoting some of your comments to my girlfriend who loves the show.
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i totally agree with this post. the show is awful and makes women look bad. its very unrealistic and makes being a slut look good, which is why we have so many problems in the world today as far as teen pregancy, STD’s, etc. its just evil and awful and i cant believe shows like this get high rateings. its total liberal minded BS.
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Thank you for this post! I love it…I was searching for others who felt what I felt when I heard about SITC2 – a bunch of f* geriatric spinsters who should looking for a old age home to retire in and get treated rather than the BS that it’s pitched as…thank you!! I wouldn’t do one of them if I were pitched drunk. I am 35 visiting Singapore and any $200 whore beats a bunch of catty, overly critical, underachieving, been around every block and sucked all cocks, geriatric farts.
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Have fun with the gonorrhea!
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I should screen a bootlegged copy of sex in the city 2 here in china and write a post making fun of it and giving away “important” parts.
This post was awesome. This damn show/movie corrupts women’s minds. It makes them believe that being a materialistic, money hungry, whore is the the way to be successful. I went to the first movie because my friend dragged me and I fell asleep 20 minutes into the movie. My friend got mad and I told her to wake me up when theres an explosion or shoot out in the movie. I wasted 2 plus hours of my life. Being a woman myself, this movie is just disgusting. Promoting unfaithfulness. All they do in the damn movie is complain about their lives. But wait, isn’t all the crap they have and do is supposed to make them happy? The whole movie is a contradiction.
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Jerkin Jack Blast on 27 Aug 2008 7:52 pm
You’re so right man. The characters in the movie are PURE whores.
P.S. Miranda is so ugly…
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I heard this show is written by gay guys which makes absolute sense.
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Ha! I heard the gay writer rumor too (dunno if it’s valid, and too lazy/disinterested to check it out), BUT…suddenly those few episodes my XGF made me watch are MUCH more entertaining! Just imagine four insecure middle-aged gay men with sagging breasts and graying hair, bitching about their vapid lives…
Comedy!
To the women who actually wish to be like Greedy or Needy or Donkey or Stanky – PLEASE stop pretending to actually be female. Just grow your best gorilla suit, drop your Adam’s apple, and be proud! And forever infertile.
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THANK GOD FOR YOU!!! Everything you said couldn’t have been more true. I wish I could add but you have taken every mean word I wanted to ever say about SITC out of my mouth – bravo good sir, bravo!
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I think they all kinda resemble the Marx Brothers. Only not as good looking.
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Wow. I thought I couldn’t hate anything more than Sex and the City, but now I’ve discovered something worse. You.
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I’m 18 and I’m was actually insulted when my mate made me watch sex and the city, the fact that this is meant to be the idea of the modern woman, what old slags who will sleep with the first thing that isn’t ugly. In my opinion self respecting women who watch this are insulting themselves, and I couldn’t agree more about how wrong it is that the
And the Sarah jessica parker voice overs, which they think are so deep and meaningful, like it is what all women are feeling makes me cringe. the fact that this programme generalized women like this is disrespecting women not empowering them. I hate fucking girl power shows, I’m a girl and I’ll prove that I can do shit, without shouting it from the rooftops, their the kind of women i hate, the kind acting like if a man say anything about a woman their femanist bastards, so we can slag men off but as soon as they say something about a woman, all hell breaks loose.
If i had it my way it would be called: Ugly old slags trying to get laid as much as they can so they don’t have to face the fact that their 40, living on their own, no children and have no man willing enough to stay with them for longer than a week…..in the city
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You take this show WAY too seriously. It is a good laugh, that’s ALL. You act like the show was an act of Congress ,or, no…wait…Parliament! You must hate yourself, because you too will get old, saggy and have a gray bush, or maybe not. Who cares?
Do you hate your granny because she is old and saggy? 40 is NOT OLD.
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5 ugly girls trying to get a boyfriend they do they have sex the end sex and the city 2 5 ugly girl go out with boyfriend have sex the end sex and the city 3 the same storyline it’s so stupid i hate the movie who cares about 5 ugly girls going out with their boyfriend don’t waste your money on this pile of shit go watch saw 3d instead of this fail of halloween movie
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Following the success of Sex and the City, I have decided to produce a TV show called: “Career and the City”, using the same format as “Sex and the City”. The main character is this guy by the name of John Smith – that’s myself; he has a column in the news paper, called: “Career and the city”. One the left side of the bus, there is this commercial that says: “Carrie Bradshaw knows good sex.” On the right side of the bus, there is this other commercial that says: “John Smith knows Career Success.”
My daily routine, and my life style, would be the following:
- Wake up at noon everyday.
- Have a cocktail for breakfast.
- Go shopping for the latest business suit, Italian tie, latest business haircut, business shoes, latest smart cell phone, and the latest laptop, laptop case, latest computer software for writing resume.
Go to Starbucks and Kinko’s to rework my resume everyday. I’d experiment with different computer systems, from PC to Mac, different font, different color paper, different way to re-write my resume every day.
Attend all kinds of career conferences, call recruiters, call HR managers.
Go to all kinds of job interviews, wearing all different kind of business suit, different ties, and different color brief cases.
Attend night schools on how to write resumes.
I became so good at it, I even teach night schools on how to write resumes, and how to get interviewed.
I receive job offers about twice a month.
I would shop for new cloths for the new job.
I would go out drink, celebrate my new job, usually the night before my first day on the job.
I would be late with a hang-over, for my first day at work.
80% of the time, I quite after 1 day. The reasons are often the same: my chair is uncomfortable, the person in the next cubicle spoke too loud on the phone, my boss was bossy, my computer’s mouse didn’t like me, I don’t like the mouse pad they gave me because it was the wrong color, they only have black pens, but I really need blue pens, they use Micro$oft Outlook for email, but I insists on using google email. Etc etc.
15% of the time, I’d get fired within a week. The reasons are often the same: I was late for work all the time, I have trouble follow directions, I fail to understand it’s my first week on the job so I should learn as opposed to make suggestions, I was gossiping on the job and leaked out some commercial secrets, etc etc.
After I get fired, I would drink with my best friends, and complain about big companies abusing employees.
3% of the time, I’d almost last 3 mth, and pass my probationary period, and be ready to stay as a permanent employee. But just the 1 week before my 3 mths is up, I’d get so pushy with my boss, asking him to make me the permanent employee, I become very emotional, and boss would fire me for my bad behavior in the office.
2% of the time, my boss would present me with the offer as a permanent employee, way before 3 mths. My boss would be understanding, supportive, and he’d tell me point blank that why he thinks I am a great employee, with great potential for more. But I’d be secretly job hunting else where, and turn down the offer for permanent employment.
I’d write a column in the newspaper, about how I know “career success secrets”. This column includes tips like:
What to wear for interviews.
What computer to use to type resume.
What font to use.
What color paper to use.
What to watch out for in a nasty employer. “If they don’t offer your coffee at your interview, don’t take the job.”
10 most important questions to ask at any interview: “Question 1: how much does it pay. Question 2: how many vacation days. Question 3: do they pay over time. Question 4: Is Viagra covered under health insurance.”
I also have some deep philosophical questions on my column:
1. Is a blue suit better than a navy blue suit for the job interview?
2. Should I wear fake glasses?
3. Did I not get the job because my resume was printed on pink colored paper?
4. Why do we all have to go to work at 9am?
5. For those of you who not only have a job, but are also getting promoted, don’t you realize you are hurting my feelings?
People are going to love my column. They tell me it’s the essential survival guide in the corporate world. They ask me to come and teach career strategy at community colleges. They think my experience is so wonderful and unique; they want to turn my story into a TV series. They will turn it into a book, and translate it into French.
Finally, by the age of 38, after having a different job every month since I graduated college, I finally realized there is the one job that I truly love, and it’s the first job I ever had right after college: Drive thru window manager at McDonald’s.
The TV show is such a smash hit success. Millions of young people watch it every week, learning essential skills on career success. Everyone is experimenting with different fonts on their resumes, all thanks to me.
Do you think I will be able to hold on to my job at McDonald’s? Stay tuned, we are going to make a big screen movie about it. No, we are going to make not 1, but 2, big screen movies about it.
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sex in the city is ……………….. a shit!!!! old stupeds women
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Finally someone feels like I do about sitc. What an awful show.
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shouldve been called Slags In The City.
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Hahaha, loved the Gargamel comparison.
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Thank goodness the whole Sex and the City franchise is totally dead when its movie sequel got butchered by the critics at the box office. Woohoo!
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Reasons why sex and the city sucks.
Reason 11:
Well, duh, it’s sex and the city!
I’d rather castrate myself with a spork than watch it.
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”Sex and the City” is the most mindnumbingly horrible show ever. I mean wow, I actually felt my IQ drop down while that dehumanizing woman-horse hybrid thing spewed irrelevant nonsense to a gaggle of repressed chimpdicks that only a 9 year old sexually confused girl with a pencil jammed through her brain can relate to. Maybe its just me? No, no, I think my description hit the spot. Honestly, if not for the fact that I was high out of my mind ( Weed) while watching this I would have went on a murderous rampage.
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have you even seen an episode?
like seriously though?
half the crap you mention is never talked about in the show. theres only one girl in the show that can be considered a skank. the other 3 go through very long periods of not having sex.
how can they be only obsessed with themselves and self pity when you also claim they’re only obsessed with men and shopping. everyone is obsessed with the opposite sex.
they dont have mac books. the show is too old for that. not only that but its sex AND the city. not in the city. you seriously dont have a clue what your taking about.
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I had a great laugh reading this. It just says it all.
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Interesting opinion…i just couldn`t read the text at the middle…dark letters on dark background :/
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worst show ever to be on tv and sarah jessica parker looks like a mix between a foot and horse
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i agree with this lol.
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Loved it! 1. It was hilarious, 2. I completely agree. It annoys me that teens now-a-days idolize these dumb broads. Diminution of human culture.
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There are maybe 2 things you got right. I had a friend who would say I was like a certain character and she was like another… it use to piss me off. But I can totally tell you’ve never watched the show – and really don’t know what the definition of a cougar is. There was only one cougar on the show and had only played that role once. The women mostly dated men their age and were not prowling for younger men… so they were not cougars.
But honestly… aside from the unbelievable life (which I don’t know if it is completely unbelievable) women do talk like them. Women do kiss and tell. Women do talk about how bad their boyfriends are in bed.
But this isn’t 10 reasons the show sucks – this is 10 reasons who YOU hate the show. Your opinion is respected.
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This show just helps perpetuate the notion that women who are unmarried by 30-35ish, are materialistic, self-absorbed bed-hopping skankbags like these. The ridiculous thing is, from what bits of the show I’ve seen, at least 3 out of 4 of the women are constantly complaining about being single, about not being able to find “the one”, are expressing jealousy toward married couples. Right, am I failing to understand something here, or are they? They’re wealthy, they’re obviously able to attract men…what is getting in the way of them settling down besides, um, their own REFUSAL to SETTLE?
So being selfish, lack-witted, insecure, vain, shallow, self-pitying and borderline impulsive, is supposed define female empowerment these days? Or at least according to Hollywood?
See, if they were coming at this show from an angle of “this is what’s wrong with some women today”, then it might be better. But how often does the media, and the fans of this show sell these women as strong, feminist icons to be admired? The whole thing would be laughable if it wasn’t so sad.
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fantastic report. Keep it, i especially like the part about women not having their own personality and looking at movies/ celebs to copy. Very good and inspiring. God bless
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I am a woman and I second each and every point you mention here. When I was growing up, I had only friends among guys for one simple reason: they all wanted to do something with their lives even if it was something unrealistic like being an astronaut or becoming a champ like Bruce Lee, they wanted to make something of themselves. On the other hand, all the girls I had the misfortune of knowing wanted to be “princesses” or marry this great guy, or whatever other nonsense what was not goal one could work towards, rather something that happens to you while you sit on your butt! I am sorry that even career women have these fantasies and that is reflected in the popularity of SATC, which cuts across various age groups and classes of women.
And before someone accuses me of being a bitter, disillusioned feminist, let me clarify that I am happily married and have never ever had anyone of the weird problems described by the women in SATC. I am just a decent human being who treats my partner as I would like to be treated myself. Surprising, I have never met the unending parade of “scum” men and “dogs” men that NYC seems to be full off according to SATC. Maybe I am just the luckiest girl in this city, or more likey the facts that I don’t diss my partner around family and friends, opted for a civil marriage and use my salary to help pay for mortgage, chip into our retirement fund and do other boring things like buy groceries for our home instead of buying shoes, eating out all the time, and meeting my shallow mutual admiration club for expensive brunches seasoned with malicious gossip have something to do with it.
And yeah, I cook for my family, not because I am a slave, but because it is cheaper and healthier in the long run. My husband mows the lawn, fixes my computer and frequently, massages my tired feet at night. Strangely, neither of us is complaining.
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This is such low-hanging fruit. You are a lazy writer.
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I’d love to meet for a fistfight sometime if you’re available Glenn. Note the date it was written. It was before there was much SITC backlash.
I tried watching the series and found all of it insipid. I never bought into this show nor the characters. It’s good to read that there are others as well who march to their own drummer.
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Why do you keep calling it SITC. It’s Sex AND the City, not Sec IN the City.
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SJP’s hideous head, that’s all i need to steer clear of the entire Sex and the City thing.
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The show is an escape from reality, that is its’ appeal.
In SATC world they are ‘Cougars’, in the real world, they are old, second-hand spinsters.
Imagine a SATC world for men,.. where all the girls were young and pretty, and the men wrote in their diary, had beer and a chat once a week and compared notes on all the lovely women they had slept with. But even though they had met so many girls, they were still waiting for that special one, that could cook a decent meal, and respect his wishes without answering back. A woman that understood how hurtful and disrespectful it is when a woman gives him her opinion or calls him her ‘partner’ instead of doing what she is told. The princess that he has dreamed about all his life that will accept her biological and evolutionary disposition to do the dishes.
And not use feminism as an excuse to be lazy, rude, opinionated and crass.
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