Sex And The City & And Just Like That #4

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I honestly can't stand Miranda in this series. She's just such a bitter hypocrite! She made Steve literally beg and plead for her forgiveness when he slept with that women once and here she is actively seeking out an affair with Che! And Carrie continues to be the self absorbed person she's always been. And who the hell would continue to wank themselves off when their child is knocking on the bedroom door. Ewwwwwww

 
BigMavis said:
I think we're all meant to be woke enough now to be able to handle this. First episode was about public masturbation which was deemed as very very acceptable (I think....maybe being woke means you know its not but you're in on the joke) I just don't understand it, there are things you can't find acceptable and will be vilified for but you can also shock people?
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I would feel much better if I thought woke meant knowing it’s not acceptable but being in on the joke but I don’t think that’s the case at all sadly. There’s a kind of trickery around “if you’re woke and cool and progressive you can handle this” which makes it incredibly hard to question the narrative but worse that than, this attitude results directly in children being oversexualised and women suffering.

Off topic but I remember really finally getting this when I came across a chat show with “Desmond is Amazing” the young “drag star” who at age 10 was prancing around the stage in some ridiculous outfit while the host and audience fell over themselves to validate his “choices” because everything is wonderful if you’re expressing yourself!! NO IT BLOODY ISNT.

Jumping around here but ditto Miranda…at a certain age it ceases to matter if you’re expressing yourself and your sexuality and your truth and finding out who you really are. Quite apart from the biological truth that by your 50s your sex drive really has settled down quite a bit anyway…by that stage in life NOBODY CARES about your truth and whether or not you’re expressing it. I think most people of her age know this to be true and find that other things matter more, like a stable relationship and what’s happening with your kid and being reasonably grateful for what you’ve got. Jeez, I dislike her so much. And I also hate CN for no doubt thinking this is all very ground breaking and progressive… ooh female masturbation while my son is outside my door! Women and especially mums everywhere are sooo gonna identify and think I’m awesome!! 😩

Who are the writers on this show? I’m guessing gay men and a bunch of young women with no kids, all hyper-privileged people who go into shock every time they come across a black person?
 
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Lady_H said:
Who are the writers on this show? I’m guessing gay men and a bunch of young women, probably hyper privileged, who don’t have kids.
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If you listen to The Writers Room podcast (I wouldn't), you'd be surprised to learn there are women in their 40s, which in a way makes the ageism on the show worse! They are back-slapping one another for a job well done; sanctimonious, earnest and solipsistic.
 
Had to copy this from somewhere else but this is Janice Turner in The Times. Last paragraph explains it.

“Scolded in the city
Sex and the City had many flaws, chief among which was conflating shopping with liberation, but it dealt with thirty-something women’s dilemmas with empathy and wit. I gave the reboot And Just Like That . . . a few episodes before forming judgment but can only boggle at how much it hates its original characters and fans. The three principals the fourth, Samantha, being absent are now in their mid-50s. They’ve married, had careers, raised kids, lived in vast, vibrant, ever-changing New York their whole lives. Yet these worldly women have been replaced by fragile, geriatric know-nothings who must be constantly schooled and scolded.

Miranda, once a lawyer, is baffled by new technology (although she was glued to her BlackBerry in the original), a gabbling rube when speaking to an African-American tutor (despite having dated a black guy for half a series), and either too weak to discipline her son or screechily OTT. Even Carrie’s sudden widowhood is classed as a rich-witch self-indulgence no worse than a bad date, and her body is so decrepit she needs a hip op. Meanwhile, because Charlotte’s daughter likes skateboarding and prefers jeans to frilly frocks, she is no longer a girl but “non-binary”. When school calls her by a male name without informing her parents, the only possible response, Charlotte learns, is applause.

Why is this show so conservative, hateful and unfunny? Because the LGBT lobbying group GLAAD has been employed to parse the storylines into woke homilies. These straw dolls, Karens and whipping girls say nothing about real older women, yet everything about how they’re now perceived”
 
FrannyGallops said:
Had to copy this from somewhere else but this is Janice Turner in The Times. Last paragraph explains it.

“Scolded in the city
Sex and the City had many flaws, chief among which was conflating shopping with liberation, but it dealt with thirty-something women’s dilemmas with empathy and wit. I gave the reboot And Just Like That . . . a few episodes before forming judgment but can only boggle at how much it hates its original characters and fans. The three principals the fourth, Samantha, being absent are now in their mid-50s. They’ve married, had careers, raised kids, lived in vast, vibrant, ever-changing New York their whole lives. Yet these worldly women have been replaced by fragile, geriatric know-nothings who must be constantly schooled and scolded.

Miranda, once a lawyer, is baffled by new technology (although she was glued to her BlackBerry in the original), a gabbling rube when speaking to an African-American tutor (despite having dated a black guy for half a series), and either too weak to discipline her son or screechily OTT. Even Carrie’s sudden widowhood is classed as a rich-witch self-indulgence no worse than a bad date, and her body is so decrepit she needs a hip op. Meanwhile, because Charlotte’s daughter likes skateboarding and prefers jeans to frilly frocks, she is no longer a girl but “non-binary”. When school calls her by a male name without informing her parents, the only possible response, Charlotte learns, is applause.

Why is this show so conservative, hateful and unfunny? Because the LGBT lobbying group GLAAD has been employed to parse the storylines into woke homilies. These straw dolls, Karens and whipping girls say nothing about real older women, yet everything about how they’re now perceived”
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Wow. That is bleeping brilliant.

Is there a link to that article?
 
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