A reprint dated: 27 Nov 2003


I am in agreement with Mafdet on this one. The Author of Sex in the City worked for many years in the Publication “Vanity Fair� this is the same magazine that Toby Young, the Evening Standard journalist, worked for and was inspired to wrote “How to Lose Friends and Alienate People� which provides a humorous account of being a Brit in Manhattan society.

The environment of “Vanity Fair� is one of pure feminist neurosis where the women’s suppressed desires of men are confined being Tran gendered in respect of attempting to behave like men in a predatory fashion, with the stereotypes of commitment phobias grafted on to Women.

They in reality are the “lost generation� of Women who was sold the post feminist crap of the 60’s 70’s of burning your bra and being on “equal terms� as a man. For them “Equal Terms� meant identical roles and aspirations as men – Career, Power, Fame and promiscuity. With the total abandonment of “traditional� Female stereotypes. The net result of this generation is the delaying of having children over career and climbing the corporate ladder. The problem for them is that such at the point of realising that the Feminism of yesteryear was outdated – meant that many are on the clasp of infertility, and also having to compete with much young prettier and post feminist savvy Women of today.

To me the whole programme is a deconstruction of family and moral values reduced to an orgy of masculine fantasy – of promiscuous women – fused with feminine consumerist materialism. In short Fu*k up. It portrays to me a dying breed of Women who “Have or Had it all� and did not know what to do with it, so they are now venting their “Power� on having as much Sex and Shopping as their “successful careers� can allow them.

The moral code is an adulation of an unattainable Adonis in a fag hag fashion (Nearly all of the Authors male colleagues at “Vanity Fair� were Gay).

The idea of equality along different roles has existed for centuries amongst African society with is not entirely in conflict with the demands of modernity in present day society.

[font="Times New Roman"][size=3]They may well as, has been mentioned, include a Black Man in the series as this would only reinforce the stereo typical desires of Western White Women in the context of politically correct lines of the ethnicity of choice but the real challenge for SITC would to be to place an African – African American amongst the Spinsters as here interpretation of combining a successful career, middle class élan , sexuality – including self confidence in the feminine form and parenthood whether single or married would – be far superior and advanced than her Anglo American counterparts