Pandora had some interesting comments on Sex in the City.

I've never watched it myself, nor do I watch reality programming other than to periodically watch "Intervention" (I must be Roman; other people's utter misery fascinates me) or "First 48" because homicide investigations are darn fascinating. I've never seen "Survivor" or any of those silly hook up shows.

I can't stand SITC because I can't think of a show less relevant to my life. I have friends, certainly, but we don't sit around discussing our sex lives and moaning about two thousand dollar high heels and twenty thousand dollar wardrobes. It fails to connect with me, and therefore I don't watch. I am friends with people who like dogs and, as a rule, dog women do not own expensive shoes (there is a law of puppy-hood that decrees that any shoe costing more than $150 must be completely destroyed in the first year of a puppy's life). We also do not have large, expensive designer wardrobes. If you have dogs, what would pass for a clothing allowance is spent financing your vetrinarian's second and third homes.

I know the show is about friendships. I don't connect with my friends in the same way those characters do. My best girl friend? She and I can sit in a room and not speak. We can not talk to each other for a year, and pick up right where we left off. We can brush each other's hair for a solid hour and talk about...nothing...and it's entirely comfortable. She really is like a sister to me, except that she lacks that eighteen years of family history (fighting about who cleans the kitchen, who does the laundry, who is touching whom in the back seat).

And maybe that show, and others like it, serves a valuable social role. Maybe it serves to illustrate and publicize the private lives of women. So little light has been shed on the lives that we lead outside of the obvious - motherhood and wifedom. There's more to life as a woman than those two roles...at least in the U.S.

It's nice to see that explored. Even if I don't like the show.