Thursday, September 13, 2018

"Sex in the City" was an anti-Semitic show.

There wasn't one stereotype about Jews that wasn't integral to the plot line about Charlotte York and her husband.  

The show was also racist, elitist and condescendingly ethnocentric.  

If I were working for Governor Cuomo, I'd watch every episode of the series and the movies.  They are replete with offensive stereotypes; nobody could afford the airtime that would be needed to publish ads with clips of all of them.  

"Sex and the City" wasn't a fluke for Ms. Nixon. It wasn't an naive error that she made in her youth, by which she is embarrassed and for which she has repented.  It was the basis of her career and her financial success, and it's being sickeningly used as if it is proof of female empowerment.  She hasn't disavowed it.  She hasn't apologized for it.  She has no intention of doing those things, and if she is elected, the show will be immortalized and copied as a model for female behavior and a path to political power.  

I'm not fond of Governor Cuomo.  However, he has a law degree, and not just on TV.  Also, as far as I know, neither he nor a fictional character portrayed by him has ever talked about "f---ing" people "up against fence(s)" as part of a discussion about gender and sexual liberation.