5 Lies Carrie Bradshaw Told Me

Having sex with a soul mate is the ultimate, having casual sex is women being used by men and it’s not cute, sexy, intriguing, liberating, or anything positive, it’s boring and tasteless and well the only good thing about it is you might get a free meal or something but it’s not worth it. At all. Wait, maybe I’m wrong, it can be good. Having multiple partners I guess is good. Who cares? Why am I writing about this? I still feel like I’m 12 years old and having sex is for people who want to have babies. Fuck the sexual revolution in the ass.

This is completely accurate. 

This is completely accurate. 

Wow, tv shows aren’t real? Really? I thought they were factual. The totally perfect people who are never naked, ever, and the weirdly unchanging sets and perfect camera angles totally had me fooled. You know what else is so real? Law and Order. There should be an article about how that…wait.

I love you for comparing Carrie to Jenny. Bitches be trippin’.
Also, for the lead in a show about female friendships, Carrie is a ridiculously bad friend.

People in NYC definitely have a lot of sex. Maybe not everyone…. but a lot of people. It’s more about being part of a type of scene that gets you lots of sex, but that Carrie lesson, in my mind, is totally true.

Also, You can have diverse groups of friends if you don’t just go to the same places all the other people just like you go. NYC if full of diversity. Get out of Murray Hill and maybe you’ll find it.

Amen! Carrie sucks. Seriously when I was in high school and naive, it was like “omg Carrie is so fun and quirky I wish I had her life lololol” now as I re-watch the episodes I’m like “holy shit girl is cray cray why would any guy waste their time with her (i’m looking at you Aiden) and why don’t her friends call her out on being such an alienating self-absorbed neurotic biiitch”

Hindsight, man.

having casual sex is women being used by men? Get your head out of all the feminist literature and look at reality. 

Brilliant. Although about ten years too late. But brilliant nonetheless.

Samantha would punch Charlotte in the face and Miranda would be like “k bye” whenever Samantha opened her mouth.

LOL
but yeah…who thought satc was real lyfe anyway?

Also might I mention that Samantha is so overlooked when in fact she was probably the most genuine on the show, and was probably the best friend to all of the girls. Who cares if she bones a lot of dudes- more power to her.

She’s such a great example of female empowerment in my opinion- the focus should have been shifted toward her rather than Carrie. I feel like it wasn’t simply because she was known for casual promiscuous sex. But Samantha was the one who owned being single, independent and ultimately 50+ and still fabulous. She ran her own company, didn’t take shit from anyone and never put up with getting walked all over by any guy. Miranda I suppose is a close second however Miranda tended to make passive aggressive remarks about her single-ness (i.e. when she was applying for a new apartment and griping about checking “single” boxes on the application, etc) while Samantha doesn’t complain about it, she owns it and loves it.

As shitty as the second SATC movie was, I have to note the line she uttered to Smith- “I love you- but I love me more”. You go girl

This is fairly true. Except I have to make a comment:

“In Sex and the City, New York really is the only place in the world.”

Sounds like TC, no?

How many times do we have to read this same article? I think that seven years after the series ended, everyone has come to terms that Sex and the City is not real life – except for the writers of TC.

Let it go.

I’m going to feel shamed about this, but in the episode where Carrie is broke, she’s actually bailed out by Charlotte giving her the engagement ring she got from her first husband. A family heirloom if I remember right.

Still gross though. Anyone who says “I’m a Carrie” (or really any character of this show),  should cause you to run away screaming. Nathan Lane’s character is a notable exception.

we’re still talking about SATC?

omg that episode was like, the last straw for me. Carrie was so insufferable. She marched over to Charlotte’s apartment and ridiculed her for not giving her money? Um what. 

Ryan, is this your stab at what I already did here? http://www.blueshame.com/2011/02/sex-and-city-part-une.html

Hmmm? ;) Good post.

pretty sure casual sex goes both ways; each person is using the other — no better, no worse.  as david said, look at reality.

#1: um, yes they do. 

IT IS THE ONLY PLACE IN THE WORLD, SO.

jk.

but also sort of not jk.

Just sayin’, I notably remember in several episodes that Carrie does not take the subway unless she is dead flat broke. LIES WHO CAN AFFORD CABS THESE AND THOSE DAYS

further shame: i know it wasn’t a family heirloom.  trey bought it for her from tiffany.

The show was created and written by gay men. My gay friends told me that that was how some, not all, gay men acted in a NYC club lifestyle. Darren Star and the main writer guy whose name I can never remember, basically took their lives as 20 something struggling writers in MYC and turned it into a show about 4 women.

The real damn lie that damn show told was that women could act emotionally immature and bat crap crazy and still get men of their dreams. I was mostly married during the run of that show, but when I single, I ran into women who acted or patterned their lifestyles after those 4 characters. To see them bitter, cynical, lonely, and dateless in their 30s and reaching 40 was sad.

good blog post

The show was created and written by gay men. My gay friends told me that that was how some, not all, gay men acted in a NYC club lifestyle. Darren Star and the main writer guy whose name I can never remember, basically took their lives as 20 something struggling writers in MYC and turned it into a show about 4 women.

The real damn lie that damn show told was that women could act emotionally immature and bat crap crazy and still get men of their dreams. I was mostly married during the run of that show, but when I single, I ran into women who acted or patterned their lifestyles after those 4 characters. To see them bitter, cynical, lonely, and dateless in their 30s and reaching 40 was sad.

good blog post

Ok, I would give (lend, whatever) a family heirloom (“not MY family”, says the dickish person voice in my brain) but I would never give away Tiffany’s. And I don’t even like diamonds!

RIGHT?! It’s awesome when a friend can help you out but NO ONE is obligated to give you money because you have some $50 000 worth of shoes and really really like your apartment that you can’t afford. And then that Charlotte responded by caving, instead of writing off the friendship. No wonder our generation feels so entitled.

If the show was like real life, it would be boring. That’s why people watch TV. Just saying! 

Too many people!!

Don’t forget the lie about an Upper east Side apartment by Barney’s for $700 a month, fucking absurd.

Here here!

“Mostly married”.

But that’s why everyone loves and raves about Friday Night Lights! And by everyone I mean the 19 people who watch it.

is this satire. are you satire? is this comment for real?

you might still be 12 years old if: you think (heterosexual) casual sex is sweet, innocent girls being “used” by some creepster dude who might, however, give you a free meal.

is anything for serious anymore? I can’t tell at all with this site or its commenters.

Favorite part is that Carrie is an awful person. I’ve basically watched every episode and think she is a terrible human being.

but if you’re not jk you’re a dick

REAL???  TROLLIN’???

Fuck that. I’m a feminist and we don’t slut-shame. Everything that Liz bothered typing is complete garbage. My guess is she’s still living with her  Christian parents. 

Love you, Ryan, but it seems like this entire post was kinda bitten of a much funnier one by The Frenemycalled “Carrie Bradshaw Math”  http://the-frenemy.com/post/5366472538/carrie-bradshaw-math

Gratuitous winky face why

She also taught me that Marlboro Lights are weak as balls cigarettes and that it’s easy to quit smoking. 

I adore Carrie, but she’s such an awful cunt. I couldn’t be friends with her in real life.

Rent control that she got in the early 90s . . . slight possibility. I got a steal recently.

It was based on the Candace Bushnell book, babe. The concepts of the characters were fairly cemented concepts already.

She said that line in the first movie near the end in their beach house. He comes back and she is standing there waiting for him to come home so she can break up with him.
Also, Charlotte and Samantha were BARELY friends.

Oh yeah my bad, sorry I get the two movies mixed up. And who cares if they weren’t that close, I still stand by it that Samantha was a better friend than any of them were.

Love the article.  Sex and the City is totally unrealistic, but I like it that way.  It would be boring if they were too poor to go out, or were all the same, or never hooked up with anyone.

SATC 2…and the 2 1/2 hours I can never get back. ever.

#6: It’s ok to never wear a bra.

It isn’t a direct response, but this blog entry DID inspire my newest one: http://nobodycareswhatithinkbut.blogspot.com/

I don’t really agree with some of this but agree with parts.

1. could apply to any show where people have sex often, i.e. “teenagers don’t have that much sex” or “middle aged women don’t have that many affairs”.
2 is probably true but she may have made all the money another way when she was in her 20s and I don’t really remember Big ever giving her money so calling her a whore in that way is basically just you making things up.
3. I don’t see why that wouldn’t be true. I know lots of people who are friends with people who are nothing like them. Sex and the City doesn’t say that’s common or “typical”. 
4. I think family moments were just left out of the show to not make it too much of a drama, which made sense, though they definitely could’ve mentioned their family more. Miranda could’ve mentioned her sister after the funeral, Carrie could’ve said something about her parents at some point, Charlotte definitely should’ve had family to mention at her weddings… Samantha seems like someone who wouldn’t have that many family members she’s close to.
5. There are plenty of people who are bad people sometimes (or every single person in the world is) and still has friends. I mean, she only had 4 good friends throughout the show so it’s not like everyone loved her. Maybe she never had any other more casual friends because she was a bad person and those 4 were the ones who hadn’t left her.

I don’t really agree with some of this but agree with parts.

1. could apply to any show where people have sex often, i.e. “teenagers don’t have that much sex” or “middle aged women don’t have that many affairs”.
2 is probably true but she may have made all the money another way when she was in her 20s and I don’t really remember Big ever giving her money so calling her a whore in that way is basically just you making things up.
3. I don’t see why that wouldn’t be true. I know lots of people who are friends with people who are nothing like them. Sex and the City doesn’t say that’s common or “typical”. 
4. I think family moments were just left out of the show to not make it too much of a drama, which made sense, though they definitely could’ve mentioned their family more. Miranda could’ve mentioned her sister after the funeral, Carrie could’ve said something about her parents at some point, Charlotte definitely should’ve had family to mention at her weddings… Samantha seems like someone who wouldn’t have that many family members she’s close to.
5. There are plenty of people who are bad people sometimes (or every single person in the world is) and still has friends. I mean, she only had 4 good friends throughout the show so it’s not like everyone loved her. Maybe she never had any other more casual friends because she was a bad person and those 4 were the ones who hadn’t left her.

YES YES YES! I thought I was the only one. Carrie is an atrocious human being who only ever talks and or cares about herself!

YES YES YES! I thought I was the only one. Carrie is an atrocious human being who only ever talks and or cares about herself!

Trolol, you dumb-ass…do you even watch the show?

Samantha AND Miranda offered to loan Carrie the money for the down payment on her apartment after Aiden threatened to evict her…and she went to Big to ask for his advice on how to turn a small amount of money into a larger amount of money, she never asked him for the money – and said no when he offered. It was eventually Charlotte that lent her the money, after selling her engagement ring.