sex and the shitty

Something has been annoying me for the guts of god knows how long. That would be the preconception that as I am female it must automatically follow that I love Sex and the City.

I don't.
At all.

My mother wasn't one for shielding me from the world as a child and so from a tender age I was exposed to Graham Norton and Sex and the City. To be honest, Graham was far more entertaining.

Sex and the City seems to be some attempt to empower women. To be honest, I find it vapid at best. Whilst attempting to take some modern angle on feminism the show does little but foster an image of women as sex starved male obsessed maniacs, who constantly feel the need to be with their 'girlfriends' whilst HE is the enemy. Men are objectified. Wow. That REALLY does so much for the women's' movement doesn't it? We do to them what we complained about them doing to us, that solves EVERYTHING!

Carrie's soliloquys sicken me. I'd rather pull my hair out than listen to the monosyllabic drawl of a catty self-pitying thirty-something who could do with eating something. Samantha entertained me for a while, she is amusing, but there's having a joke about someone being obsessed with sex and there's Samantha. I'm not a prude, but I don't need to see that much thanks, if I wanted to watch soft porn I'd google it. Charlotte is painful and Miranda is just plain neurotic. Some women talk about the characters as though they're role models - I'd love to be able to fathom why.

The majority of my friends love this show for some reason. Don't get me wrong, I know for some it's light entertainment, but for me it's just mind-numbing. I don't understand how these women have no male friends, no guys who they have the banter with! Every woman just has gay designer friends that they talk shoes, scarves, bags and boys with! Soooo sooo true, like OH EMM GEE, it's like, MY life! When I go to NYC I HAVE to parade abotu like Carrie and the 'gals'.

It pains me that being female is associated with loving Sex and the City.
But I mean you know, I sit at my laptop typing out an article that I'm thinking out in my head. Evidently I'm SUCH a Carrie.

Carrie on love, as far away from me as possible please.