Why do Men hate Sex & The City?

Reku · 25-06-2008 01:19PM

Dragan wrote: »

judging someone based on a tv show they watch is amazingly pointless.

Unless it's Big Brother.:D

JC 2K3 · 25-06-2008 01:36PM

HoneyButterfly wrote: »

Ps, you JC person whoever you are...how dare you call me vacuous? Since when did boards become somewhere to disrespect people and call them stupid, simply for giving their opinion?
Not that it matters, or I have anything to prove to you, but I have an Bachelor of Science (Honours) Psychology....so do not call me vacuous for saying that I would like a lifestyle whereby I get to live in (I think) the best city in the world, and be able to pursue my love of fashion and have a wonderful career. By saying this I think you have in fact proven another theory of mine...men are threatened by successful women like those in SATC, and if a women states that she would love a lifestyle like theirs she is called vacuous?!
A am a girl, a smart girl, that does not mean I am not allowed to want a lifestyle like this. I am not for a moment suggesting this is my aim in life! I was simply stating that SATC allows women to experience it through the SATC girls fabulous life in NY

For someone with a degree in Psychology, I would expect slightly more rational thought and deeper insights that the usual cliché'd "men are threatened by successful women" rhetoric.

I think the whole idea and lifestyle of SATC is shallow and vacuous, you think this makes me closed minded. You say I just can't relate because I'm a guy, but I know of many girls, and indeed some have revealed themselves in this thread, who don't like SATC, nor can they relate to it, which means it isn't women in general who can relate it it, it's a certain type of woman who can.

And for the record, I was in New York two years ago and I thought it was the most awful, dingy, souless, clausterphobic, consumeristically obsessed city I'd ever been. Horrible place.

I don't mean to offend. We just have extreme difference of opinion.

HoneyButterfly · 25-06-2008 01:46PM

Right, why don't ye all just go join a club where you can bitch and moan about Sex and the City?
I'm tired of defending my opinion and being called stupid, empty and shallow for liking it. I like it, you don't. Get over it.
And oh yes, I know it is very cliche to say men are threatened by powerful women, I cringed just typing it....however, that doesn't make it not true.
I don't get how men can sit and watch lads kicking a ball around a field (riveting like) but I don't go around thrashing it and calling them names.
That is all I will say

Dragan · 25-06-2008 01:51PM

HoneyButterfly wrote: »

Right, why don't ye all just go join a club where you can bitch and moan about Sex and the City?
I'm tired of defending my opinion and being called stupid, empty and shallow for liking it. I like it, you don't. Get over it.
And oh yes, I know it is very cliche to say men are threatened by powerful women, I cringed just typing it....however, that doesn't make it not true.
I don't get how men can sit and watch lads kicking a ball around a field (riveting like) but I don't go around thrashing it and calling them names.
That is all I will say

In fairness you indicated that men who don't like it are closed minded regardless of the reasons they don't like it....so you didn't exactly get off to the best start.:)

pvt.joker · 25-06-2008 01:54PM

Creature wrote: »

I think Mark Kermode said it best when he said:

"liking Sex and The City isn't a gender issue, it's not a sexual orientation issue. It's a dumb or clever issue. If you're intelligent you think Sex and The City is rubbish."

+1 well said

Mikel · 25-06-2008 06:44PM

HoneyButterfly wrote: »

Right, why don't ye all just go join a club where you can bitch and moan about Sex and the City?
I'm tired of defending my opinion and being called stupid, empty and shallow for liking it. I like it, you don't. Get over it.
And oh yes, I know it is very cliche to say men are threatened by powerful women, I cringed just typing it....however, that doesn't make it not true.
I don't get how men can sit and watch lads kicking a ball around a field (riveting like) but I don't go around thrashing it and calling them names.
That is all I will say

Calm down Princess.

Nightwish · 25-06-2008 07:07PM

I like SATC purely on an entertainment value. I find it funny. I dont and nor would any sane or rational person aspire to be like any of the characters. They are completely unrealistic and exaggerated. But like anything in the world of fictional tv, its only a show. I dont believe there are any "messages" in it. Do people actually believe any of Carrie's irrational and sometimes stupid monologues? C'mon its just a show!!!

WindSock · 25-06-2008 07:44PM

JC 2K3 wrote: »

which means it isn't women in general who can relate it it, it's a certain type of woman who can.

What's the certain type of Woman who can? The shallow kind?

SarahSassy · 25-06-2008 07:59PM

Who cares why they hate it???? Topgear is the biggest load of trash I have seen in years and men love it... Let them off to the big mystery of who Smidge is.... I love SATC and let the boys to their toys.

WindSock · 25-06-2008 08:06PM

I can watch top gear aswell. It's entertaining and escapism, but I don't feel the constant need to bash people for watching it. Anyway, It's incomparable to SATC, as it's a totally different type of show.

ntlbell · 25-06-2008 08:10PM

WindSock wrote: »

What's the certain type of Woman who can? The shallow kind?

Probably the type with very little going on upstairs.

They don't have to be shallow.

It's a bit like the womens magazines which I got eaten alive for.

Why would you sit down to an hour's relaxing just to have your intelligence insulted for an hour.

bizzareee

BroomBurner · 25-06-2008 08:14PM

Why men hate SATC: Because it took the worst personality traits of women and made them into actual characters. As a woman, I hated SATC, always have, always will, it's a bunch of tripe. And has anyone seen the clip for the new show that the writer of SATC has come up with? Exactly the same as the last one. One trick pony.

WindSock · 25-06-2008 08:23PM

Well I find it insulting that I can sit down and watch a programme only to be told that I have very little going on upstairs because of what I choose to have on the box. What happens if I change over to the discovery channel after, does that nullify it and send my head back onto an even plane?

ntlbell · 25-06-2008 08:33PM

WindSock wrote: »

Well I find it insulting that I can sit down and watch a programme only to be told that I have very little going on upstairs because of what I choose to have on the box. What happens if I change over to the discovery channel after, does that nullify it and send my head back onto an even plane?

I don't know what would happen if you changed over to discovery, I would be assuming you're on the wrong channel and america's top model is on somewhere else?

WindSock · 25-06-2008 09:04PM

So people who watch sex and the city generally only watch reality shows too? To watch one type of programme immediatley in your books lumps you in with only one other type of genre?

ntlbell · 25-06-2008 09:07PM

WindSock wrote: »

So people who watch sex and the city generally only watch reality shows too? To watch one type of programme immediatley in your books lumps you in with only one other type of genre?

I have to becareful here as I normally get banned.

Let me say this..

If it's in a circus, looks like a clown and acts like a clown, it's generally a clown.

phew.

BroomBurner · 25-06-2008 09:10PM

ntlbell wrote: »

I have to becareful here as I normally get banned.

Let me say this..

If it's in a circus, looks like a clown and acts like a clown, it's generally a clown.

phew.

I hate SATC but like some reality shows, my clown shoes are very comfy thanks

ntlbell · 25-06-2008 09:13PM

BroomBurner wrote: »

I hate SATC but like some reality shows, my clown shoes are very comfy thanks

I didn't say all reality shows were bad, i haven't seen enough to comment on them I commented on one I had seen.

nice shoes tho..

WindSock · 25-06-2008 09:16PM

Yeah, and I hate reality shows (bar wife swap) but sometimes watch SATC, and my clowns pocket is just dandy

don't like to be tarred and feathered with the one brush though.

BroomBurner · 25-06-2008 09:17PM

I don't like to be tarred and feathered at all, messes up my curly orange wig

ntlbell · 25-06-2008 09:22PM

BroomBurner wrote: »

I don't like to be tarred and feathered at all, messes up my curly orange wig

it would create a new wig.

it would be the make up you should be worried about!

the SATC stuff? mac is it? :P

BroomBurner · 25-06-2008 09:27PM

ntlbell wrote: »

it would create a new wig.

it would be the make up you should be worried about!

the SATC stuff? mac is it? :P

Nah, I don't have a trowel big enough to remove that stuff. Am an au naturale kinda gal. Excuse the spelling.

WindSock · 25-06-2008 09:30PM

ntlbell wrote: »

the SATC stuff? mac is it? :P

Whats it like being stuck in that closet with all those fancy clothes

?

ntlbell · 25-06-2008 09:38PM

WindSock wrote: »

Whats it like being stuck in that closet with all those fancy clothes ?

someones spotted my big shoes...:o

WindSock · 25-06-2008 09:42PM

'They are so shallow and vacuous and fugly'. It still makes me titter to read that.

BroomBurner · 25-06-2008 09:45PM

Have to say, the weirdest part of the SATC saga was seeing women getting dressed up to go to the cinema. Now, before anyone stomps any clown-feet, I'm not being derogatory, just thought it was weird.

ntlbell · 25-06-2008 09:47PM

BroomBurner wrote: »

Have to say, the weirdest part of the SATC saga was seeing women getting dressed up to go to the cinema. Now, before anyone stomps any clown-feet, I'm not being derogatory, just thought it was weird.

I was in a delightful pub on the northside....

there was roughly 65/70 women...

up pulls a "limo bus" to take them all

and it was one of the scaries things i've ever seen (and this pub was in finglas)

scary scary times..

WindSock · 25-06-2008 09:49PM

Well, I guess it's not very far from Men wearing sports jerseys going to a game, etc. Yes, I know it's to show who's side you are on, but I have seen guys wear different sports clothes to different types of sports.

The_Conductor · 25-06-2008 09:52PM

SarahSassy wrote: »

Who cares why they hate it???? Topgear is the biggest load of trash I have seen in years and men love it... Let them off to the big mystery of who Smidge is.... I love SATC and let the boys to their toys.

FYI- its most of my female friends, including my wife, who are hopelessly addicted to Topgear. You can positively see her start to drool if a Ford Puma or an Opel Tigra go up the street..... I think guys are far more likely to be into SG, DIY etc.

ntlbell · 25-06-2008 09:52PM

WindSock wrote: »

Well, I guess it's not very far from Men wearing sports jerseys going to a game, etc. Yes, I know it's to show who's side you are on, but I have seen guys wear different sports clothes to different types of sports.

But we don't PRETEND to be the footballer in question....

and say on the bus to the match? who are you? oh i'm ronaldo i'm gorgeous "no way man your scholes your a red headed ginger"

Why do Men hate Sex & The City?

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