Sexism and the City

I don't understand the comments below, for example "I agree with many of these posts that say this article's logic doesn't pan out. The author's "evidence" of men's "sexist" reaction is weak." Really? I'd say that men who have said they don't want to see a movie yet were "...voting early and often..." on IMDB "...so that the movie would have a low rating of 3 out of 10 among users before Friday..." show sexism. You don't want to see a movie? Don't. And don't vote on it. I think that men who went out of their way to vote on a movie they wouldn't see and to have such nasty comments about it (without having seen it) shows how bad sexism is in this country.

nothing more than PORN for conservative women.......my wife loves it yet i find the show and the series totally inane and not even close to reality ...my wife feels the same about peter norths north pole series hahahaha
yet i tell her things like that really DO happen... she looks at me with a glare ....we men have our fantasies of cluadia schiffer and giselle and adriana lima ...
the women drean of shoes lunches and mr big .....seroiusly i think we have the better end of the deal.
samantha has a GUT!!!!!.. unacceptable however for a fifty yr old man its expected ...the men win HA

Yes, we men are tired of being bashed, made fun of in commercials, hit by women (V8 commercial) and just generally talked down to by women. Get over yourself. It seems the self esteem of women has more than been corrected. If it's that good, go home and lick it yourself.

We're bashing it because we don't want to pay to see 45 year old cougars having sex and talking about their feelings. Why bother when we can see hot younger women having sex on the internet for free and no talking afterward.

I really don't get it, my husband rants about this movie claiming these women are whores on parade, but yet he has no issue with American Pie, Porky's, 40 year old virgin, or Wedding Crashers. It's ok for men to chase tail and try to get as many women as possible in the sack on the big screen - but when 4 women do it it's horrible and they are whores. Women are sexual beings, period, always have been. Sex in the City is just the first time that a show or movie has come along that puts it out there the same way we have been seeing men portrayed for years. When 4 men try to have sex with alot of women it's called a comedy, when 4 women have sex with alot of men they are sluts. It makes me laugh. I am also amazed that so many people just don't get two very important details, the stories portrayed in this series and this movie are real stories that have happened to real women. Rather than having 1.5 million lead female characters on this show, they divided the stories and issues up between 4 main characters, so yes, they all got alot of action. Second, the real story is the friendship these women share, through thick and thin they stand together, they will always be friends no matter what man comes along and that is the true story. I love my girlfriends, they were there before my husband, and if it ever came to be that he was no longer in my life, my girlfriends would be there after. That is what the show and this movie are about - the bon and friendship shared by these women.

Please don' t dare compare Hillary to the girls--Carrie, Miranda, Samantha or Charlotte. They would have vehemently voted against the war in Iraq and stood up to the good ole boys. As true New Yorkers and intelligent women, they would have relentlessly pursued and caught the REAL enemy ... in time for cocktails.

OK, I'm a man. I'm a flaming hetero-sexual. I enjoy the series. I even enjoyed the movie to some degree, but at the same time, it made me genuinely angry. (Spoiler alert!) It seems to me that if a female character in the movies got cold feet and left the scene of the wedding, only to turn around and return mere minutes later, she would not be so castigated as Mr. Big was. It is, after all, a woman's perogative to change her mind. I suppose it is romantic to have your secretary copy historical love stories on your behalf and send them off into the ether of cyberspace fully expecting them to never be read. It doesn't seem to fit in with the character of Big from the series however. Now that he's finally found Love, he can't live without Carrie? It seems to me that sometime before the 5 months had passed, he probably would have given up on the project (though he really didn't need to devote much energy to it). I get it that he loves her. I get it that he knows he made her justifiably angry. At some point though, wouldn't he shake his head of his besotted haze and see that she might have been over-reacting to cut him out of her life completely? Wouldn't this make him angry in return? He would be expected to be understanding if she needed a few minutes to catch her breath before entering the Public Library for such a life changing event. Is it wrong of me to be angry at Carrie for not being more tolerant of his trepidation? Clearly a wedding is always seen as the bride's day, but let's not accept that notion to the exclusion to the feelings of the groom.

Oh, well. I guess the women deserve to have a movie that skews things into their perspective. Maybe that's how they feel about one of my fantasy genres... porn.

Lets face it, "Sex and the City" is pure garbage. It teaches 16-24 year old girls to go and sleep around and be promiscuous. Now, being a sexually active guy myself I'm all for it, but how would you like it if this was your daughter or sister or mother, or better yet, your wife, that was going around your city sleeping and f**ing around with douchebags. It's not sexism that makes people hate this show, it's the ideology behind it.

Seriously, now I have to feel bad about hating this crappy TV show and crappy movie? Is my distaste for the story of four selfish, label obsessed women any different from my wife's, simply because I am a man? Does every preference have to be sexism? Can't I just admire Barak Obama without being a misogynist?

It scares the bejesus out of me when we get to this level. I have never- not once- bemoaned the fact that most women I know don't understand the appeal of the Three Stooges, cigars and fishing. It has never occured to me for one minute that it was anything more than a preference. This movie is not a cultural milestone- it is a movie that a lot of woman seem to like more than men. Have a good time, but let us see "Ironman" and we will meet you in the lobby.

Well, why is one single film suddenly responsible for representing the entire female species? Are all men represented by the Indiana Jones movie? Or that one with Adam Sandler?

Why can't I view all comments? Is Newsweak afraid that the U.S. is about to stabilize Iraq??? Or are they afraid of losing their strident, loudmouth, and inane Left readers??? I would be too after all the trash they talked and proven wrong. Oh yah and hey where are all those folks telling us how wrong the surge was? And how wrong Bush was for "staying the course"? Cowards one and all. Get behind the push and winning team. It's your last chance..... Republicans in '08. How ironic this war is Obama's downfall, not to laugh or anything.

Men can bash this film all they want, but on opening night I was in an auditorium full of 500 women, dressed in their finest duds, and having one of the most fun girls nights in recent memory. I had to wonder ;) "Why are men so afraid of women enjoying themselves for two hours without the influence of testosterone?" Threatened much?