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Let it Go Already: The Sex and the City Backlash
You can’t swing a dead cat these days without hitting some guy who is bitching about how he doesn’t want to go see the new Sex and the City Movie. It’s becoming this huge effing backlash that is spreading like so much HPV and frankly, it’s getting annoying. And totally overdone. Saying that you hate Sex and the City is like making an “I Drink Your Milkshake” joke or calling someone the weakest link.
Even the Chicago Tribune has a story called “Because no man should feel the agony of this film”. The author, John Klas, mentions that women “Just Don’t Get It” and thinks that by liking an Affair to Remember, he is somehow absolved from implying that all women are weepy, oversexed and overshopped and all would force their significant other to see a movie that he so clearly and vehemently does not want to see.
As Klas says, “Millions of men are sick about this movie based on a TV show about four terrifying, rich, aging, elitist women who whine about sex and men and purchase $700 pairs of shoes to feel better about themselves.”
Where is all of this anger coming from, all this righteous indignation? If you don’t want to see the movie, then don’t go see the g*ddamn movie. I have a feeling that most women would rather go see a movie with girlfriends than drag along a guy that is just going to snicker and sneer and huff and haw for the entire thing.
To take a phrase from Mr. Klas, I’m going to say that as far as Sex and the City goes, guys “Just Don’t Get It”. It’s total entertainment and fantasy, just like Scarface and The Sopranos. The show isn’t anything like real life, and that’s why women love it. It seems like men are afraid that if they go to see this movie, that shopping and bed hopping will immediately commence as soon as the credits roll. Just because my boyfriend likes to watch horror movies doesn’t mean that I think he’s going to want to go out an murder someone.
I can understand simply not being entertained by a show. I’m not entertained by most television programs and so I would never begrudge any male or female their inherent right to dislike any particular form of entertainment. Things start to get ridiculous, though, when these guys imply that Sex and the City accurately portrays women and then go on to write diatribe after diatribe about how much they hate Sex and the City.
There is something troubling in that math.
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Angelique Nolan says:
Fri, 23rd May 20081:12 pm
I definitely agree! I was showing some of Carrie’s costumes to my grandmother and she commented that you couldn’t wear those things anywhere. I told her that was the point, the show was a fantasy, nobody is seen doing much work and their major problems are neurotic guys, $500 shoe dilemmas and trying to walk into rooms in which there are people that they have not slept with. They wear fabulous outfits for every occasion, including walking a dog or eating brunch. It’s not real life, they live like ridiculously wealthy twenty somethings, it is surreal, and that’s what makes it fun. Real women that are making the money that they are from the careers that they have have no time for nonsense like these women’s dating lives and neverending strolling about on neverending lunch hours. But that’s not the point, it’s a satire of different definitions of “the dream, perfect life” and problems inherent in these dreams. Charlotte’s is romantic and she has the perfect man, house and kids, but the flaw is that her expectations are too high and her desperation scares men away. Miranda’s is complete independence, but the catch is that it hampers her capacity for intimacy. Carrie’s is an exciting relationship with a man that holds her interest and is unpredictable, the catch is that unpredictable can be bad because it doesn’t give you someplace safe to put your heart. Samantha’s is to use guys and toss them out of her bed when she is done with them the way that men typically do women, the catch is that when she wants someone to be there, they won’t be, and she has lost the opportunity to have children or a fulfilling relationship. Then there are the trappings of wealth and success, which are occasionally gone into, but less so.
Dexter says:
Fri, 30th May 20088:46 am
I originally approached the TV series with an open mind when my girlfriend gave it such rave reviews. But then she turned it into “required viewing” for me…as if I needed to be trained as to how women really think. The entire world had to stop when Sex and the City came on. I really thought the way the show characterized men was pretty derogatory and demeaning, but still, I held my tongue. The final blow came however when my girlfriend insisted on watching a single episode of Sex and the City (one we had already seen) not just once…but FOUR TIMES IN A ROW! They were having some Sex and the City marathon on TV and it literally nearly caused the end of our relationship. After she insisted on watching the episode a 3rd time, I walked out of the house. She hardly noticed, she was so mezmerized by this show. When I returned, she was then on her 4th viewing of the same episode and that’s when I just gave up and went home. Needless to say, we broke up soon after and I’ve hated the show ever since.
So yes, there is a fanatical element to this series which genuinely irritates some people. It’s slutty, shallow, and glorifies the worst behaviors. Personally, I’m glad there is growing backlash against it and I hope it continues.