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Sex and the City: Empowering or Damaging?
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Posted 4 months ago I am doing research for a philosophy class of mine and I would really like to get your opinions. I know that this topic has been touched on previously, but I would like to be more specific... Do you believe the the Sex and the City series and film have served as a post-modernist way of empowering women, proving that women can be successful with gender as a non-issue while still maintaining positive close-knit friendships, OR does it have the opposite effect by portraying four women who have wasted their lives with frivolous sexual encounters and excessive lifestyles? |
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| Posted 4 months ago Sex and the City is an unrealistic view of life in the Big Apple. The women live an expensive lifestyle on "inflated" salaries. Carrie, the writer in the group, would probably make only 30K in real life, and she could not afford her favorite brand of shoes on sale in a thrift shop. None of the women works very hard to further their careers. They are more engrossed with sexual conquests while some characters obsess about marriage. Sex and the City is not a true portrayal of liberated women who work 60-80 hours per week to get to the top. I liked the show for its entertainment value, but I doubt that S/C did much to empower every day women. Donna Life is short. Embrace your friends and family with love. |
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| Posted 4 months ago I hope most people do not take what they see in cable, or any TV show as a literal representation of real life. Being an adult show, I think it would have been taken as a form of entertainment onl. |
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| Posted 4 months ago I haven't watched more than a few episodes but I find it to be more demeaning than anything else. I know that it's not meant to protray real life but it think that it gives a false immage of women who IRL would be more struggling to get by rather than making it big. And that it would be a much more empowering series if it showed what if really takes to go through life as an independent woman. Not to mention most of the women that I know that a independent by choice and have chosen dont' have time to date as much or have the unreal amount of sex. Although if you based a series on that it would probably be a very boring series. You can take this or leave it I honestly have only watched a very few episodes (2-3) and I'm really not a fan at all. |
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| Posted 4 months ago brandylynn1975 says ...
I agree. Sex in the City is entertainment. I doubt there are many single women in NYC who work who could live the way these ladies do. Imagination. . .is the power that enables us to empathise with humans whose experiences we have never shared. (J.K. Rowling) |
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| Posted 4 months ago True some of the characters have inflated salaries and that part is somewhat unrealistic. However, the relationship dilemmas many of the characters face are pretty real and something everyday women experience. |
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| Posted 3 months ago stgreg11 says ...
I agree with stgreg11 and comments by AM_Morgano8. When I saw the movie their commitment to their friendship was what I liked. |
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| Posted 3 months ago While the portrayal of their lifestyles was unrealistic, the power of women bonding together and the strength they drew from one another's friendship came through loud and clear. That's what I liked about the show and the movie. "There is no old age. There is, as there always was, just you." (Carol Matthau) |
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| Posted 3 months ago The show does have good points about the bond of friendship. The characters do share and help one another. Donna Life is short. Embrace your friends and family with love. |