i read an article the other day about whether or not sex and the city could really be considered feminist and it really intrigued me. it was a contentious question, as the opinino on SATC is notoriously divided. One camp says that it encourages women to be comfortable with sexuality and friendship and work and being a woman. The second camp says that ultimately it conforms to the idea of women as playthigns for men, running around frantically for 'The One'.
I think that SATC was an important stepping stone for me from hopeless romantic (which i was, and partially still am) to independent woman. Now i know that friends are so important, especially the ones that love you for who you are not anything else, and that men are seond to that. Boys are stupid, throw rocks at them.
But SATC is, i think, a feminist text in that, for the first time on TV, it was show about women, for women. Yeah men watched it, and enjoyed it, but the themes, values, concerns and issues were all regarding women. Dealing with illness, change, moving, letting go, starting anew.... There had never been a TV show like it that spoke about unashamedly and unabashedly about women and their lives. So they may have been slightly stereotypical and slightly above-average, but they were still women.
Besides, as the article concluded, SATC thinks women are funny, and clever and fashionable and beautiful and important. And that is the ultimate point of the showl. Women are important. (they really are!)
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