[lbo-talk] RE: Sex and the City

[Liza Featherstone]

Doesn't Samantha do badly in this poll because she makes men feel horribly
threatened? Wouldn't most worry that they couldn't keep up with her? That
anxiety about female insatiability -- Samantha is like female vampire the
Victorians fantasized, who could permanently and unrecoverably drain your
semen, as Bram Dijkstra describes in Evil Sisters -- is  still pretty
pervasive.

The solution to this obvious problem on the show - pairing her with an
insatiable youth, celebrity, handsome, so comfortable in his masculinity he
doesn't mind being thought gay - is, I think, quite clever and astute.

Liza


> From: "Grant Lee" <grantlee at iinet.net.au>
> Reply-To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 12:49:13 +0800
> To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] RE: Sex and the City
> 
> From: "Doug Henwood"
> 
>> joanna bujes wrote:
>> 
>>> Well, I'm a Miranda gal all the way. I must say, though, I found the
>>> poll results very worrysome. I'm assuming a vote for fucking
>>> Charlotte, is a vote for the attractions of prim virginity. Never
>>> could understand that. But I'll defer to the male experts on this
>>> list if I'm misinterpreting the Charlotte vote.
>> 
>> They can only weigh in if they cite sufficient solid bourgeois
> scholarship.
>> 
>> Doug
> 
> Miranda is a sourpuss and probably has unresolved parental issues. Charlotte
> is the classic sheltered haute-bourgeois kid and Carrie has a shoe/commodity
> fetish. Therefore it's Samantha all the way for me. Is that scholarly
> enough? ;-)
> 
> Grant.
> 
> 
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