Men: Suck It Up, Sex And The City Won't Hurt You

Men are dumb bitches. They can't ever just let anyone else be happy. They are just jealous that our moives are better.

Let me tell you about me. I am female. I LOVED the series. I cried when Big came and rescued Carrie from the awful Russian and when the little white flower next to Samantha's bed bloomed and she and Smith started boning again. I am a fan, through and through.

Katey, I agree that it's pig-headed for men to refuse to see the movie simply because it stars and is about women. If that's their reason, then yes, they're being misogynistic. However, if they're refusing to see it because every ad for the movie is also an ad for one of the movie's sponsors, or because it perpetuates the socially harmful belief that a woman must be married (as garishly as possible) to be happy, or that happily-ever-after must mean that the infertile woman with an adopted child (finally!) bears one of her own blood, or because it's 2 hours and 22 freakin' minutes long, then I agree with them: it's not worth it.

I hated the movie. It was terrible. It was boring. It wasn't funny. It was long. It was painfully consumeristic and the product placement was absolutely shameless. I felt like I was watching the longest Bloomingdales commercial EVER. Carrie turns into a pathetic middle-aged woman who actually blames herself for being stood-up by Big at their wedding. I was angry that SJP had ruined my happy memories of the show.

A man's refusal to see this movie simply because it's a chick flick would indeed be misogynistic. But wouldn't you rather fight the mysogyny battle armed with a film that's truly worth seeing and makes modern women look powerful, independent and intelligent?

Was Juno a chick flick? Because that movie was awesome and TONS of men would agree. And Juno was a more realistic woman than any of SATC's characters.

I wasn't going to open the misogyny can of worms on this one, but you've pretty much gone and proved correct any point I would have made. Ah, the good old "All sexually active women are whores" argument.

What the fuck else are we supposed to call it? They spread their legs for money and treats and talk shit about it. That's all they do. It's a stupid fucking waste of time, and we're sick of it.

Ok, I’ve seen the movie and every episode, and I’m a straight man. I love this show and the movie was a good addition to the series.

So now I’m watching the last season and I’m on the episode where Carrie and Samantha are at a party in the bathroom. Samantha is worried that her boyfriend will think she too old because she’s getting gray hair “Down there�. So she decided to dye the hair there but left the dye in too long. So she’s talking about this with Carrie, who thinks this is all way too much information when all of a sudden Samantha lifts up her skirt and says “I’m bozo the bush�. Okay…. That is funny as hell. It’s a comedy. It’s not meant to be taken literal. Is it a bit raunchy? Sure. But its funny as hell! Watch the show, then complain. Otherwise shut the F up!

"A bunch of old, worn out, leathery whores going around the city spreading their legs, sitting around talking crap, and being more shallow and superficial than even the dumbest high school jock."

I wasn't going to open the misogyny can of worms on this one, but you've pretty much gone and proved correct any point I would have made. Ah, the good old "All sexually active women are whores" argument.

That's it for me on this topic. At least we all can agree that we'll all be happier when we can stop talking about this movie.

Katey - We know it exists. For all the advertising on television, internet, magazines, buses, kiosks, restaurant bathrooms, et cetera...plenty of guys are sick of something that we already hated in the first place. Not to mention the sheer delight of women that watched this show on HBO back when the blonde wasn't eligible for Social Security, cackling in anticipation and glee.

We're not panicking because that implies fear. I got a different word in mind. We're loathing the fact that these mediocre forty-something actresses are back from the dead and there's nothing we can do about it.

Fear is reserved for this film's sequel, when the girls go home for their fortieth high school reunion and rediscover love, shopping, and yummy pink cocktails in a rolling three hour saga that there isn't enough bourbon in Kentucky to immunize me from.

It's not the fact that the movie stars women, and is for women, that men don't like it. Hell, if a GOOD movie, based on a GOOD television show, starring GOOD actresses came out, I would probably see it. Sex and the City stars 4 hacks who cannot and never have been able to act. Sarah Jessica Parker is the Second ugliest person in the movie business. She looks like a dying mule. The old, blonde one (Kim something) is annoying, shrill, smug, and tired. And the only reason that Sarah Jessica Parker isn't the ugliest woman alive is because of the one with red hair (Cynthia something?)The shorter woman with brown hair is an OK actress, but she is definitely overshadowed by the legions of suck vomited forth by the rest of these sad, pathetic people. What the hell is this about, anyway? A bunch of old, worn out, leathery whores going around the city spreading their legs, sitting around talking crap, and being more shallow and superficial than even the dumbest high school jock. Oh and of course there are the gay guys, because these days gay guys are "hip" and "cool". It isn't chic until it has a gay guy.

You say "Seriously, they can't conceive of it". Typical feminist BS. Want to know something women can't seem to conceive of? A show or motion picture that isn't a grating, squaking, gonorrhea infested grilled cheese blowjob from grandma. Most men have no problem with a movie about strong women living their lives. If they didn't see it, at the very least they wouldn't say much negative about it. This movie though, is so pointless, so stupid and sick it is disgusting. As I said earlier, it's nothing but old sluts getting screwed in exchange for money;dinner;bragging rights. Stupid, pointless, and such a burden on our society we will probably never shed it, at least not until this generation of 40-50 something women die out.

Cletus,

Perhaps you could leave your neanderthal double-standard male ways behind and apprecitate Sex & City for what it is. A great show (Movie was not as great- but still entertaning) - the women are confident sexual human beings. If that threatens you - then keep going out with women who care what other people think and are repressive. Face reality - lots of women have slept with many men just like men have - there's no crime in this - this is normal now. Don't force a double- standard - and judge women as "sluts" or "whores" because they do this. It has nothing do with the fact that men try harder to score, therefore they are "game" and don't deserve to be called "male whores" - (hardly a justifable term considering men call women "sluts" if they even hear or see a hint of them dating and sleeping with several men). "Spreading their legs" - ha!~ Like you haven't! Pleasssse...... Your'e the type of man that would get the boot right away in my world or the Tv show's world. You are not modern - you are stuck in the past.

Dude, Uncle Jack, I didn't tell you to suck it up and go see it, just to suck it up and accept its existence. I have no interest in making you go see it, but just in getting guys to stop panicing over the very fact that it's out there, and at some point a woman they know might want to see it.

i wouldn't scratch her off the list. but i'd tell her to go by herself. either that, or the next TWO weekends we'd go and see a soccer match - and she WOULDN'T be allowed to complain about it!

and yeah - these chicks are IRRITATING!

As for me, I am so very tired of the double standard of male frontal nudity only. Whether it is a movie for women or not, when will it stop ??? Enough already. Even in films that are regarded as "guy" films ("Any Given Sunday" for example) there is only male fronatl nudity. Men are not saying to do away with it, but when are we going to be able to see our fair share of female frontal nudity ? Until movie producers. directors, and whoever figure that out I want nothing to do with any of these films.

I don't see what the big deal is. None of my guy friends have expressed any real distain for the film, that i've heard. I've seen the show and found it amusing enough. Guys go with their girls to chick flicks and rom-coms, and girls go with their guys to action movies and vulgar comedies, and many people from both sexes enjoy all those types, to some extent.

It's just a part of the great compromise.

Ummmm... lemme' think... yeah....

No, I don't think so.

And not because it's a chick flick. I'm a straight male who considers himself to be in touch with his feminine side and enjoys a good chick flick now and again, but there is no way in hell I will ever watch a two and a half hour movie about four of the most shallow and irritating television characters ever created.

Your article just explained why 95% of the heterosexual male American moviegoing population doesn't want to be anywhere near this two hour shiny piece of garbage. If "suck it up" is the best reason you can give to entice me into going, then you're not trying very hard. Tell us the redhead is topless in three scenes, or that Carrie gets hit by a bus. Not that we get to watch four snooty average looking women drink Cosmos and go shoe shopping for anything longer than an average sitcom commercial.

Rubbish... fizzy pink rubbish. I am a male, I cried at E.T. but I'll never watch this trashy American film about shopping and weddings starring Sarah Double-barrelled shotgun. No thanks.

Well, I liked the show and I'm a bloke, and I'm defintely not gay either...well there was that one time...er, forget i said that.
Co'mon men! get in tough with your feminine frilly side!!!