Week 5 Response to Nick B

First of all I applaud you for tackling sex and the city, and for questioning its relevance in our society. I think it accurately depicts how women feel and what they would want if given the opportunity. But not all women have the opportunity to live that way and so the show is more of a fantastical hour long escape. It is empowering to watch when as women you are either going through what the women on the show are going through or you are single and due to society feel not good enough. The show makes it okay to focus on yourself and your career- even if being a housewife is what a girl wants to be she has a whole single-working girl life before she even meets her husband. I remember my girlfriends and I would watch it because the characters were role models. They were unlike any women we saw or knew in our lives. Yes, their lifestyles were extreme, Samantha was a little too sexually free but she made it a little more okay for women to have more than one sexual partner in their life without being considered a whore. And Carrey was flawed and realistic, but still successful and beautiful and women need to look up to other women who make mistakes and say the wrong thing but at the end of a series they are happy with who they are.