“Were Women Really Giving Up On Love And Throttling Up On Power?”
How relevant is Sex and The City? S1, Ep.1: “Sex and the City”
“Welcome to the age of “uninnocence”. No one has ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’, and no one has ‘Affairs to Remember’… Instead, we have breakfast at 7am, and affairs we try to forget as quickly as possible. Self-protection and closing the deal are paramount. Cupid has flown the co-op.”
— Carrie Bradshaw
The year is 1998, and we’re gifted ‘Sex and The City’. The birth of Candace Bushnell’s semi-biographical masterpiece onto the small screen. Manhattan. Cocktails. Unapologetic sex in designer heels.
The tv show defined a generation of women. Women found control in their relationships. And their perception of their place in the world changed for the better. The heroines, Samantha Jones, Miranda Hobbes, Charlotte York and the Carrie Bradshaw, became the cornerstone of modern relationship commentary.
Everything they pondered about love resonated with the women of the early noughties. But as we surge in the twenties, do these fictional women still…
