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This week on Deep Thoughts About Stupid Shit, Emily shares her complicated love of the television show Sex and the City. When the HBO original comedy first aired in 1998, it was a breath of fresh feminism in pop culture. The show featured a quartet of fabulous single women in New York who had created a found family through their deep and abiding friendship with each other.

Although Sarah Jessica Parker’s Carrie Bradshaw and Kristin Davis’s Charlotte York both dreamed of romance, SatC wasn’t exactly a romcom—at least, not at first. It offered audiences a peek into the sexy, infuriating, and overwhelming world of New York dating, along with trenchant cultural commentary on the difficulty of meeting Mr. Right, even if there was no shortage of Mr. Right Nows.

But some pretty regressive politics lurked behind the progressive feminism. Kim Cattrall’s Samantha Jones was consistently slut-shamed by the show, even as she took control of her own sexuality. Early episodes included some very regrettable racial politics and bisexual erasure. And the fact that all four women end the series paired up with a man seems counter to the feminism the first season promised us.

Emily also shares why And Just Like That is dead to her (it has nothing to do with Mr. Big!), and the line that makes her tear up every single time.

I couldn’t help but wonder…why not start listening to this episode right this minute?

Tags: deep thoughts about stupid shit, feminism, comedy, pop culture, women, romance, cultural commentary, millennial nostalgia, gen x nostalgia, romcom, storytelling, psychology, mental health, HBO, sex and the city, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Darren Star

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We are the sister podcasters Tracie Guy-Decker and Emily Guy Birken, known to our extended family as the Guy Girls.

We're hella smart and completely unashamed of our overthinking prowess. We love 80s and 90s movies and tv, science fiction, comedy, and murder mysteries, good storytelling with lots of dramatic irony, analyzing film tropes with a side of feminism, and examining the pop culture of our Gen X childhood for gender dynamics, psychology, sociology, religious allegory, and whatever else we find.

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