This Is What a Straight Man Is Thinking While Watching Sex and the City 2
Don’t worry, writer Brian Donovan has commentary in here for the gays, too.
At first we thought maybe Donovan was just LOLing?
But on True/Slant, Donovan replies to bitter former Queerty editor Japhy Grant, who exclaims, “I think you’re forgetting gay men. We’re VERY excited to find out how Carrie Bradshaw will ruin another man’s life this time.” Says Donovan: “Really? The ‘like a virgin’ moment didn’t annoy you at all? How about Liza Minelli doing ‘single ladies?’ That doesn’t bother you as pandering to stereotypes? And also, really lame?” Haha. Yes!
this was soooo funny!!!!!
OK, i’m a SATC freak and i’ll go see this movie, even though the first one was horrible, stupid and it involved lots of bad acting (that’s just the 2000s)… but you know, like many of the gay males, i love samantha and miranda and hate the other two bitch*s.
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I saw the first one in a theater that was about 80% women, 15% gay men and 5% poor straight guys who had been dragged there by their girlfriends.
Favoriate moment, when they showed some shoes and all the women int he audience gasped and waent “ooooo!” Straight gy turning to his girlfriend and asking “What happened, did I miss something?”
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OH MY GOD Jason I love you. You spoke truth to it all. Thank you thank you thank you. Of course not all gays, but in my experience the vast vast majority of them. I can’t stand gay bars these days. Yes, vain, materialistic, superficial…you stole the words right out of my mouth. One question though: What did you mean by “a form of self-observation by the narcissistic gays”? Sounds intriguing.
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Ephram,
What I mean is that gay male narcissists are looking at themselves when they’re looking at Sex and the City. That’s what I mean by self-observation.
Gay male narcissists need to do this for various reasons. One is that, if it were scripted as a show about four gay men, it wouldn’t get the funding from the major studios. It wouldn’t get made. Therefore, it’s a show about four gay male narcissists by “default”.
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You mean this guy?
http://trueslant.com/japhygrant/
Looks like he’s a writer for them too. Is he gay?
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I would rather spend an evening listening to a bunch of gym bunnies go on about their guns and how ripped they are or see a tired retread of a second rate 80′s TV-show that features things blowing up–so fresh and new!
I love SATC and think it is a fun, fluffy fantasy of cosmopolitan life in NYC. I love the latent self internalized homophobia that a movie like this brings out in my gay brothers.
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All my friends loved the first S&TV movie but I thought it was excruciating, and I say this as a big fan of the (early part of the) series. I hope S&TC2 is better, but that’s a very long shot I suppose. I don’t plan on seeing it unless I feel assured it won’t hold me hostage to stupidity like the first one.
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@Jimmi:
And how exactly was Sex and the City cosmopolitan? It was about a bunch of relatively successful white girls and their shopping and dating travails.
But maybe I’m wrong. I haven’t really seen that much of the show, so feel free to point out some of the museums, cultural festivals, and foreign literature events they attended.
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@Zachz: I was speaking more to Gay Men who refer to Gay Men who like the movie as being too fem or being shallow queens. Sometimes a movie is just a good movie that people enjoy. Why cast blame or insult? As for being materialistic–welcome to the USA.
As for the show–watch it first. Then we can discuss it.
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Sarah Jessica Parker looks like a horse.
I simply don’t understand all the swooning and sighing over her beauty. She seems likable and all and she’s pro-gay to her bones but, whenever I see her, I want to feed her a sugar cube or some hay.
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@Jimmi:
That’s not what you said. That, or you’re really bad at expressing your thoughts.
You also appear to have reading issues: I said I have seen episodes of the show. I don’t think I have to watch the entire series in order to ascertain that it’s a vacuous exercise in materialism.
“As for being materialistic–welcome to the USA.”
Yes, yes. You like shiny baubles and think shopping=worldy. Alright.
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@Zach: I do love shiny baubles. And I like movies about it. Shopping hardly makes anyone worldly.
Would it make you feel better if Samantha stopped fucking for one day and read Kafka? Or if Carrie gave up shopping and built sustainable green housing with habitat for Humanity?
Obviously, you have some agenda. What is it dear? Wearing Che Guevara t-shirts and reading Das Kapital; seething and loathing the materialistic world we live in? Looking down your nose at the silly little faggots and vain women of the world? What’s your beef, doll?
Is it that you like trolling web sites so you can rattle off your diatribes about disposable junk culture in the 21st Century? Duly noted.
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I should be sleeping or studying, but i fell asleep & had the dreaded terrifying nightmare of SJP & skater Evan Lysacek spawning babies with mismached features & noses that won’t stop growing !
kidding, ok!
No plans on seeing this movie here: cuz James Franco or Collin Ferrell arent in it…. Need I say more? Not interested in trips to Abu Dhabi (abu Ghraib?) by a supposed newspaper columnist who can afford $700 shoes & $2,900 dresses and who treats gay men as frilly accessories!l
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@Jimmi:
“Obviously, you have some agenda. What is it dear? Wearing Che Guevara t-shirts and reading Das Kapital; seething and loathing the materialistic world we live in? Looking down your nose at the silly little faggots and vain women of the world? What’s your beef, doll?”
I think it sad that you know exactly how shallow and ignorant you are and believe it to be a virtue. Though given your defensiveness and your predictable serious=Marxist diatribe, I can infer that this isn’t the first time someone attacked you for sponging off humanity to feed your useless, personless existence.
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Call me stereotypical, but I can’t wait for this movie.