I’m Carrie, you’re Carrie, we’re all Carrie. Sex and the City has been ingrained in our culture (and my heart) as an intelligent, humorous depiction of single women and their pursuit for love, sex and friendship. The first movie showed the end of the single gal with Carrie Bradshaw marrying her on-and-off again boyfriend. As SATC2 begins one must wonder are we awash with the images of the carefree, single gal and is the sequel beating us with a dead stiletto?
Celebrities have hopped a ride the baby train and 2 out of 5 of your friends is either married or in a serious relationship (or maybe that’s just my friends) It would seem that the focus on single freedom and living on your own terms has been replaced with the ideals of lasting love, marriage and the baby carriage. It’s enough to make a single girl lose her lunch.
From my own single girl perch it seems that the single girl hasn’t vanished she’s simply evolved. Instead of complaining over Cosmos, she’s hitting the town, traveling with friends or adopting a third world baby (Sandra B. and Sheryl, here’s looking at you). Single women are finally understanding that singleness doesn’t have to define them (and its not as tragic as the media would have us believe); friends, career and family do. Loving life with or without a partner does. And just because you’ve decided to couple up doesn’t mean you’ve betrayed the Legion of Single Bitches (card carrying member here).
Sex and the City 2, if executed properly (please leave out the depressing sequence) will instill in women a love for ourselves no matter our life choices. Whether we marry a commitment phobe boyfriend, have babies or decide that 1 isn’t the loneliest number it’s a woman’s pejorative. It’s no longer singles vs. everyone else. If we learned nothing from the SATC franchise it’s that women from all sides of the relationship coin can coexist. But if Samantha gets married this movie, I’m sending Darren Starr a molatile cosmo. You can have Carrie but Samantha is single forever.
And as if you haven’t seen it…
Are you going to see Sex and the City 2? Are you single and loving it?
Hi, my name is Alicia and I am a SATC addict … whew, now that that’s outta the way. Mr.Star, although we love these 4 completely different women with all of our earthly beings, we could’ve done with out the sequal. And I don’t know about any one else, but I’m still not over Mr. Big (oh, excuse me) John’s lil stunt in front of the library. and Yeah, although I have missed my girls and often wonder what they’re up to; i enjoy doing just that….WONDERING. I can create, destroy and re-create any plot I want, whenever I want; and well, this sequal will ruin all of that.
And although, I love me some Aiden, how realistic will this story be. I’m hoping he’s a mirage from the middle eastern heat. Then I think about where we really left the crew:
Miranda: back with Steve happy in Brooklyn… how will their plot thicken? She’s gonna get pregnant, tell Steve she’s a lesbian and has only dealt with the marriage because of her pity for him and his one and half testes??? C’Mon !
Char-Char: New baby, rich husband and still her amazing apartment on the Upper East Side … what could possibly happen to their story that would move us ?
My girl Samantha: the ETERNAL single girl and now puppy owner. Will her mega PR Firm go under and she be forced to call Smith for a loan … FAT CHANCE !
And last but not least, every one’s favorite most confused single white female: … who is no longer single and for sure she’s in love with a man who has proven he doesn’t like the idea of marriage/ committment. Let me guess, after the honeymoon phase is over, they realize they are not “the marrying kind” and she uses this getaway to clear her head, but she only confuses things b/c she keeps dreaming of and imagining her exes there with her.. *gasp* does this mean she made a mistake… should she have just forgiven John and moved on … please don’t tell me she’s not “over” Aiden …
Well any who .. you see how this could go on for decades…annnndd FYI: The writer Candace has just released another book: “The Carrie Diaries” … Carrie Bradshaw … the high school years bwahahahaa …
Now, don’t get me wrong, I am as big of a fan you can get, but I’m also honest… even Oprah knows when enough is enough.
@CarterGirl: You are hilarious! You need to write for SATC cause you just took me through an emotional roller-coaster with your plot twists.