Man, you are so right about this! I watched the show with my wife once in a while because I thought it would make me understand women better. Well, at least New York women better. The only lessons there were the "how nots": how NOT to have a relationship, how NOT to have sex, and how NOT to shop if you ever want to have a bank account!

#5 #5 #5 The 3 truest!

I love #3. There's a post out there waiting to be written comparing guys weekends to girls dinners.

Newsflash: You're talking about Hollywood actresses who are reading scripts written by gay men. This does NOT tell us anything about women.

SATC does not represent women and even if some of the stereotypes obliquely reference a subset of woman, it only represents American women.

Men, keep in mind that the overwhelming majority of women in the world do not live in the United States. Let that one sink in. There are European women, Asian women, Latin American women, etc. Don't like vapid SATC types? Go find a woman who actually cares about who a man is from the inside out. There are heaps of them...look a little harder if you haven't come across one yet.

I cannot repeat this loudly enough:
I AM SO GLAD I'M GAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If you really want to get to know the minds of women don't go to the movies to watch actresses. I love fashion and New York City, so I would go see this movie just for that, but I can't believe that people would believe these women portray real women. I have to say, though, that reading your version was quite an experiment for me to explore the mind of a man, exploring the mind of a woman. I learned something and even got a few chuckles...thanks!

Really... I hate chicks. All my exes were like these vapid whores. Really wish I was gay.

Do any of the above posters believe that this was a serious post and not for some laughs...

i forget -- does drinking beer/scratching ballz and watching dudes in tights running qualify as "doing" something?

uhmmm... I think SATC represents only the mind of it's creator. Keep in mind it's only a movie for ENTERTAINMENT!

ENTOURAGE is the guy equivalent of SATC. You can't judge all women on planet earth by the characters on SATC. It is a TELEVISION show. Not reality! I have a suspicion that the author of this article is a lonely, bitter male who has very little contact with any real females. Sad. =(

Besides the fact that SATC is a movie, so it's merely entertaining to make assumptions about women with it, (for example, I probably would only garner laughs and not much real insight by writing an article entitled "What Rambo Tells Us about Men")...

-I adore NYC and have never been a "country" outdoorsy girl, so I don't really think this is a criticism as it is a preference. Some girls like the city, some like the country. SATC girls like the city.
-How about, the human race loves money?!?! Or Men get really insecure when they're not the breadwinners, and have trouble dating financially independent women? Which is worse really?
-We don't do stuff together? And what is it you do, guys? Go camping and play video games? It's all quality time, girls just ENJOY communicating with each other while guys ENJOY shooting things with guns, etc. One's not better than the other. I get BORED camping. I like having a conversation with my mom on the phone.
-Anything men find complicated they tend to tune out or give the blanket term "irrational," we all know this. They oversimplify things, it's part of their appeal! Women tend to see more facets to their relationships so it's harder to simplify.

"you're" is used incorrectly. It's "your mother". Get it straight.

I love that so many anonymous posters miss the point. It's not dissing on women, it's showing the glaring errors and misrepresentation of women that SATC features in their show and movie.

Also: Great read

Actually NYC is a paradise for MEN. Why? Highest concentration of single women in the United States! Followed by Boston at #2.

Wow this post is incredibly sexist, way to go man.

It may have been entertainment, but have many women identify with the show its scary, freaking millions of them. So it definitely seems to ring true to them. Id say this guy knows what hes talking about. Perhaps he should do a series ?

Funny stuff! Gotta disagree with this though: "Men accept that if they don’t go to college and get a good job they’ll end up with a less attractive woman." Really? Have you never seen the losers converge when a knockout woman walks into a bar?
Nah. Very few men acknowledge what league they are actually in, but if they did they'd be thanking God for women with low self esteem.

wow it's just a dramatic over blown unrealistic tale of money sluts.... please don't compare them to every women... thanks to Tv shows like that all you jerks will be in heaven labeling all women like that... just an excuse..

Those are not real women, they are "fictional characters." There might be a few rich women in NY who are like them (that is who they are portraying), but that's it. Terrible generalization...

They may be actresses portraying characters written in a script but I think the point the author is trying to make is that the women who see this film want to be like the characters these actresses are portraying. And that's a chilling thought. Bring on asexual reproduction post haste.

"i forget -- does drinking beer/scratching ballz and watching dudes in tights running qualify as "doing" something?"

Compared to just sitting around gossiping for hours? Yes.

(Hell, even compared to shopping... yes.)

I'm a girl...and I HATE this show...nothing more annoying then middle-aged women fucking anything that has money. It's nasty! Unfortunately for men, most girls are like this...BLEH! This is why I hang out with the guys! No girlfriends for me!!!

Your blog makes rash generalizations that only an unintelligent, shallow, apathetic, and insecure guy would make.
Yes, you are very insecure, because you are probably balding, poor, and can't meet any anatomical standards (referring to your stupid point on #4).
Also, I wouldn't be surprised to find out you do nothing at all except write stupid stories like these, why don't you do something better with your life!

Yeah, why cant they have sex and the city taking place in like Nashville or something?

The only one I would agree with would be #2. This is actually bioligicly proven. Women are atracted to a mate who can provide for her offspring. In some cases women seek DNA from one source and resources from another.

Obviously I am generalzing.... which is never a good thing.

SATC is based on women who live in NYC and the fucked up mentality they have, it's not just a fabrication that live solely in the mind of the creator. This is real. I live in NYC and I see it all the time. It really just about 4 chicks who spend they're life saving on clothes and talk A LOT of crap, ALL THE TIME. We should have a show with the same name about rich guys who go around shaggin chicks and flyin all over the world, the only difference is, we wouldn't watch it because we are to busy doing it. LOL. I guess single women have a lot more time on they're hand, and a lot less fun. In the end, it's really a pathetic show in reality about the truth and live of this breed of women. If you come across these types of women guys, just fuk em and keep it moving. They're not worth much else.

Even if this IS satire, give me a break. This is the equivalent to saying that Tarzan or Bluto from Animal House can teach you to understand men. As a guitar-playing, computer-programming, sci-fi-loving, sport-watching New Yorker woman, I officially can tell you that not all women fit this caricature. I know you'll say "well, it describes ALOT of women and it's just for fun." But every few days one of these "let's all laugh at a caricature of nagging, gossipy, shallow women" gets dugg right to the front page. And people are consuming these things. And each one goes further to normalize all the stereotypes that plague both genders. Oh, and if someone's FORCING you to go to a movie, why are you dating them? Just let them go with their girlfriends or wait for it to come out on dvd. It's not like they need to catch it in theaters for all the big special effects.

poo poo poo pooo ima fail mah orgo exam wahhhh :'-(

It's just a shame that people witness these people on television, do not understand that it's all fantasy and try to live it out.... and this is applicable to all television and film, which is far from reality.

If SATC didn't resonate somewhat with the ideals and appeals of most women in the US, then it would not have become such a runaway success among women aged 20-55. Sure, some of the things in it might be a little over the top and absurd, but regardless, something in there must actually connect with things that they find important. But then again, considering what the girls in SATC find important, that's an even scarier thought.

Think about GTA, and what it means to a lot of guys. It's about getting out your aggression on a computer screen so you don't walk into work the next day, drop trow, and plant a huge steaming dump on your bosses desk before telling him you are through. - In a sense, allowing you to vent the frustration of your current life by murdering pixels on a screen.

So would SATC be a woman's way of vicariously existing in a completely care-free society, where they could truly act without worrying about the expected norms? I don't know...

All I do know, is I'm single, and pretty f*^$%^&'in happy guy.

I have dated and know allot of New York and L.A. Women and although you can't generalize all women into the SATC stereotype... this article is 98.3% correct. The main issue I have with SATC is that it has single handedly fuct up and duped an entire generation of women into thinking it's cool to behave like spoiled whores. The gay writers are laughing all the way to the bank.

heh Trying to understand women based on a movie will just make it easier for them to bend your feeble minds.

I agree with #3 and have been thinking that for a long time, though you can't really blanket statement every woman that way, just the majority. Which is why I don't date. I've been single for 10 years. And the more I watch my friends, how they'd love to just get away from their girlfriends and wives for 5 minutes, the easier it is to be happy that I don't need women. I just need a really good paying job and a home in Nevada.

someone must have had a bad break up...

I think it is absolutely hilarious that the humor of the article IS in the fact that it is true...ish.

Don't care for the show, but then again I really don't like chick flicks. But every other female in my family from 50 year old aunt to 15 year old stepdaughter all "want to be the carrie" so I sorta kinda understand how the show is a fantasy world for females--their version of a video game (hey...playing a game is DOING something...).

"Men accept that if they don’t go to college and get a good job they’ll end up with a less attractive woman..."

We know what all the sociological, psychology studies say about attractive people/money/mating as well as the fact that it isn't PC to discuss it in anything but scholarly terms...

I think this is the first time I ever heard a guy admit out loud that that was a collective "known" of the boy code. Of course nothing is true for everyone. I used to wonder about the "guys don't like to talk" myth and always thought I was cursed to find the yappy ones. ~chuckles~ I guess they thought it was what I wanted. A girl could learn a lot reading this article.

There is one thing I take fault with: Miranda wasn't "The Bitch". She might have been career focused, and she knew what she wanted in life, but I wouldn't call that a "bitch". I mean, seriously... she was the one that took care of her Mother in Law that treated her like crap and had a baby and was a single mom. I'd call that "the realistic one". Or maybe even "the only one with a soul."

Congratulations, you made it perfectly clear that the only woman you know is your mother.