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My ex-girlfriend Jayna concluded that Sex and the City had a negative, permanent affect on the women that watched it.

I miss Jayna, I truly do.  Sadly, that may have been my most successful relationship ever.  I say sadly because we kept it hidden the entire time and we lived across the state for 3 months of it.  But I would drive down every other weekend, so it wasn’t the worst possible situation.  I truly cared for the woman with all my heart.

She broke up with me because she’d gotten a job in another state and didn’t think there was any way for us to work out.  I held out hope for so long, even going to visit her a few times on my ways across the country.  She would always be extra distant and skeptical about whether I was amounting up to anything.  I say that in a mean way, but at the time I was unemployed with no prospects and I didn’t care.  I’m sure it must have seemed insane to a person who was settling down and finding it hard to make ends meet even with a steady income.  She married a few months ago.  I hope she’s happy.  I hope that someday, I, too, will be happy.

Anyway, she claimed that all of her friends– that had begun watching Sex and the City had ended up turning into ends-driven, callous, materialistic women that cared little about the emotional damage that they inflicted on those around them.  She gave constant examples of SatC-watching friends who had cheated, slept around, or led strangers on for no good reason.

I never gave it much credence that Sex and the City caused such behavior, but it definitely made me think twice whenever I ran into women that claimed to love the show.  They would defend it as a form of women’s liberation and I wouldn’t doubt it, but I would still keep it in the back of my head. As a prude, I find the show repulsive and so find I end up running into problems with people I know that like it. Inevitably it spoke to their character in ways that they didn’t realize and in ways that I tried to be cautious toward.

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My ex-girlfriend Jayna concluded that Sex and the City had a negative, permanent affect on the women that watched it. I miss Jayna, I truly do.  Sadly, that may have been my most successful relationship ever.  I say sadly because we kept it hidden the entire time and we lived across the state for 3…