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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (43574)	1/23/2003 5:51:02 PM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 50167

<<I was ill-informed to make a specific comment, rather one of a general nature the boy from Uttar Pradesh, India, quipped that I was going to drool something which would invariably cause offence to the entire table. His caustic comment stemmed in part from my reputation in class for being quite politically incorrect >> Zachary Latif on "Sex and the City", .... Sex and the City I was reading in the Daily Telegraph that the widely celebrated and notorious HBO show, "Sex and the City", was going end after its fourth season. Having never watched the show or particularly interested in any aspect of it I had no reaction nevertheless the article itself gave me some food for thought and a hypothesis began forming in my mind. I decided to air it out on Friday night when I went out for dinner with a few friends to commemorate the end of our exam marathon. The conversation had turned to the not too intellectually stimulating discussion of television programs and I was surprised to see that virtually all of them confessed to being regular viewers of "Sex and the City". It did strike me as somewhat peculiar as to how these Master students, many of whom had secured jobs at the leading investment banks, could watch such a show nevertheless they were redeemed when they emphatically stated that they were ardent Frasier fans as well. I am digressing and my story lies in when the discussion turned specifically to "Sex and the City". As the conversation progressed concerning the minutiae of the "Sex and the City" characters I decided to add my two-pence. After enunciating that since I had never watched the show I was ill-informed to make a specific comment, rather one of a general nature the boy from Uttar Pradesh, India, quipped that I was going to drool something which would invariably cause offence to the entire table. His caustic comment stemmed in part from my reputation in class for being quite politically incorrect nevertheless I decided to proceed inspite of the controversial nature of the argument since the entire table was goading me on. I stated to the Scottish lass at the head of our table that I found "Sex and the City" to be a show, which deeply reinforced sexual stereotypes concerning the traditional role of women moreso than any 1950's program. At which my somewhat incredulous and somewhat exasperate friend asked me to elaborate further as to why I thought this was so. I stated that the female characters of the show who were supposed to demonstrate the excesses and promiscuity of women (at which my friend corrected me in stating that the characters of “Sex and the City” were “serial monogamists”, in that despite their plethora of relationships they remained faithful to the one they were committed to at that particular period in time) nevertheless in real life all the actresses were married and were in fact getting pregnant. The real lives of the actresses in no way mirrored their characters and all of them were faithfully committed to a long-term relationship. “Sex and the City” did not reflect the travails of straight single women since virtually all the scriptwriters of the aforementioned show were homosexual men (who are known for their promiscuity otherwise the Aids epidemic would not have ravaged their community in the Western world) and fundamentally one can easily discern that “Sex and the City” was a show where a group of married woman acted out the promiscuous fantasies of men, with a same-sex orientation. Thus “Sex and the City” proves that the only thing women want is to get married, settle down and have kids whilst men (particularly homosexuals) perennially fantasise of moving from partner to partner. When I ended that monologue I elicited the same murmurs of concurrences from my friends since my argument was rooted in a factual basis and was indeed tautological. My family had also agreed to my reasoning when I had first formed it a few days prior and “Sex and the City” essential betrays the fact that men & women are guided by dissimilar instinctual impulses, which will recurrently manifest themselves despite the degree to which they are repressed in an increasingly egalitarian world. Zachary Latif 11:52 latif.blogspot.com