I’ve changed my opinion on Sex and the City.  As you would expect, I hate this show.

 

I used to think this was because of its vapidity or its inherent misogyny.  Or was it that men were disposable accessories, good for comfort when it was needed but ultimately only there to serve as a lesson.

 

I am not well versed enough in the show to tear it apart completely, but I have watched enough (even the movie god forgive me) to know that I don’t like it.

 

You may be wondering why I am going on about this now of all times, when the show ended about 5 years ago and the film is already forgotten. 

It’s like drugs or porn, it turns up in someone’s house and before you know it, people are watching it, making excuses for it and I find myself sitting, staring into the abyss with them, my teeth grinding and my fingers tapping as I watch these women ruin everything they have achieved in the past 40 years.  A box set has turned up at my girlfriend’s house.  People are watching it.  People are dying.

 

Yeah, it does broach feminist topics and it is ‘current’, in the same way that Big Brother is topical and relevant.  But really, it seems to confirm every prejudice that men have about women.  They talk crap, they are fashion obsessed, they really don’t get men at all and hold in higher esteem shitty puns and embarrassing word-play than anything else in the world:

 

“As I stood there with the discount clothes on one arm, I knew I could not discount my own feelings.” [actual quote]

 

And that’s what really annoys me about this fucking show.  Ignore the fact that it is a spinal tap on the hope of western civilisation.  Ignore that it is worst piece of feminist writing since Deepthroat.

It is terribly written.  I mean really, it is god-awful.  Horrendous.   Atrocious.  Fuck me it’s bad.  That is what pisses me off about this.  It’s the fact that people will watch and enjoy something that, to me, seems conceived with the notion that HUMANS ARE EVIL and a SLOW AND PAINFUL DEATH VIA THE EARS AND BRAIN is a fitting death.  This, this is the kind of writing Douglas Adams was referring to when he spoke of the Vogon’s poetry.  Writing like this is truly horrific.

 

Here are some quotes, thankfully taken out of context that I have found on a FAN site.  So these, presumably, are the good ones.

 

“I'm good at crossword puzzles, I'm not so good at people puzzles.” (Carrie)

 

“Maybe all men are a drug. Sometimes they bring you down and sometimes, like now, they get you so high.” (Carrie, who is not a teenager)

 

“I don't believe in the Republican party or the Democratic party. I just believe in parties.” (Samantha, a member of the adult population)

 

“Maybe the past is like an anchor holding us back. Maybe, you have to let go of who you were to become who you will be.” (Carrie)

 

Seriously, this is like eating turd.  And you have no idea how many of Carrie’s quotes begin “Maybe…”  An annoying amount is the answer.