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    "Forget Slumdog Millionaire": It's All About The Manolos In Mumbai

    Strawberry Shortcake Gets The Sex In The City Treatment

    36 Straight Hours Of Sex (And The City): The First Two Seasons

    36 Straight Hours Of Sex (And The City)

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    What Do Bradshaw, Plath, And De Beauvoir Have In Common? An Addiction To Egotistical Men

    Maybe It's Time To Stop Hating On America's Scary Sadshaws
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    Image of Rare Affinity Rare Affinity
    02/25/09

    In reply to "Forget Slumdog Millionaire": It's All About The Manolos In Mumbai
    I am single and I loved Sex and the City. Nothing would ever make me lust after the ridiculously expensive and unfeasibly high heels but then I never ended up looking like an American quarterback with my padded shoulders, despite watching Dynasty. The Patricia Field fashions usually made me laugh rather than feel pangs of envy and it was clear that SJP was the producer since she ALWAYS had the male guest stars falling madly in love with her character on first sight. However, I can identify with quite a lot of the storylines touching on dating and relationships and often re-watch the series whenever it is shown again on the television.
    I don't understand why people take it so seriously. For me it was just an amusing romp with some witty one-liners, pretty frocks and the occasional keen insight.
    India is hardly Maoist China, when everyone was forced to wear the same drab clothing and therefore ripe for takeover by Carrie's obsession with colourful fashions. Rest assured, educated middle-class Indian women are just as capable as their Western counterparts of determining for themselves what constitutes a suitable role model.
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    02/25/09

    In reply to "Forget Slumdog Millionaire": It's All About The Manolos In Mumbai
    If there was one movie I wish I could live by, it would be Natural Born Killers


    Mallory!!!!

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    Image of R_Claw R_Claw
    02/25/09

    In reply to "Forget Slumdog Millionaire": It's All About The Manolos In Mumbai
    They should live by the gospel of Flight of the Conchords. That's what I try to do.


    In fact, I'm thinking of becoming a part time model, but I won't quit my day job. Oops, sorry can't help but stare at your sugar lumps. Damn last night there were too many dicks on the dance floor. When Jemaine broke up with me, I got hurt feelings, I got hurt feelings...

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    02/25/09

    In reply to "Forget Slumdog Millionaire": It's All About The Manolos In Mumbai
    Well, as an HBO show to emulate I guess Sex and the City is preferable to Big Love.
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    Image of lilbobbytables lilbobbytables
    02/25/09

    @sportz.star: I prefer Deadwood.
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    Image of JessicaLovejoy: Laughing, riding, cornholing! JessicaLovejoy: Laughing, riding, cornholing!
    02/25/09

    In reply to "Forget Slumdog Millionaire": It's All About The Manolos In Mumbai
    Did single women who liked to drink and wear heels have a name before "Carrie Bradshaw?" Or were they not worth a name because they'd eventually grow out of it when they found a nice man and had a few baybeez?
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    Image of lilbobbytables lilbobbytables
    02/25/09

    @Jessica Hussein Lovejoy is stimulatin' ur package: The one I heard most was "slatternly trollop"
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    Image of morninggloria morninggloria
    02/25/09

    @Jessica Hussein Lovejoy is stimulatin' ur package: They were called "snobby, neurotic, self-important urbanites."
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    Image of hello.kitty hello.kitty
    02/25/09

    In reply to "Forget Slumdog Millionaire": It's All About The Manolos In Mumbai
    Honey, no! Screw Mr. Big. Love these guys:

    Demetrius Williams (MISSISSIPPI MASAL)

    Will Darcy (BRIDE & PREJUDICE)

    Gogol/Nikhil (THE NAMESAKE)


    Stop watching SATC and rent some Mira Nair films!

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    02/25/09

    @hello.kitty: I love Mira Nair! She came and spoke at my law school, and I was soooo jazzed. BTW - Bride and Prejudice is a classic.
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    Image of baraqiel baraqiel
    02/25/09

    @hello.kitty: Really? I thought Gogol needed to grow a spine, actually. The women in that book were all much more interesting than he was.
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    02/25/09

    In reply to "Forget Slumdog Millionaire": It's All About The Manolos In Mumbai
    I'm sorry, I'm sure this a very insightful post, but all I can see is the GIANT FLOWER. Is that an actual costume from the show? Because it is literally bigger than her head!
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    02/25/09

    @Benevolent_Dictatrix: To bring it back on-topic: I hope western cultural hegemony isn't extended to exporting giant flower apparel abroad.
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    Image of bluebears bluebears
    02/25/09

    @Benevolent_Dictatrix: heheheh. great, just one more thing we'll get blamed for.
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    Image of AthertonMerriweather AthertonMerriweather
    02/25/09

    In reply to "Forget Slumdog Millionaire": It's All About The Manolos In Mumbai
    Women in Mumbai are actually very fashion minded, so it doesn't surprise me that they would like Sex And The City. I don't think most people realize the amount of wealth in Mumbai. It makes sense to me that they would aspire to be a Carrie Bradshaw.
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    Image of morninggloria morninggloria
    02/25/09

    In reply to "Forget Slumdog Millionaire": It's All About The Manolos In Mumbai
    Luckily, my Indian-American friend, we have something here that combines all the stability of arranged marriage and the drama and romance of a "love match"--


    THE BACHELOR!!!!11!!!!!!!1!

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    Image of Eleanor Ramilly Eleanor Ramilly
    02/25/09

    In reply to "Forget Slumdog Millionaire": It's All About The Manolos In Mumbai
    It irritates me that writers feel the need to compare life and its troubles to pop culture so frequently. It feels like they're dumbing down the issues by attempting to speak in a language easy enough for the public to understand. It only muddles the topic.
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    Image of BrutallyHonestBabes (aka Mrs. Sarah.of.a.Lesser.Hobbit) BrutallyHonestBabes (aka Mrs. Sarah.of.a.Lesser.Hobbit)
    02/25/09

    In reply to "Forget Slumdog Millionaire": It's All About The Manolos In Mumbai
    I've chosen to live my life according to "Harold and Kumar go to White Castle" and I've never regretted it. I've learned that... oh, man do I need a damn burger. It's so bright in here. Hahahahaa LOL Cats are so funny!


    What?

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    Image of sarah.of.a.lesser.god (aka Mrs. BrutallyHonestHobbit) sarah.of.a.lesser.god (aka Mrs. BrutallyHonestHobbit)
    02/25/09

    @BrutallyHonestZombies: I live my life according to The Life of Brian. I'm not the Messiah, honestly!
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    Image of lilbobbytables lilbobbytables
    02/25/09

    @BrutallyHonestZombies: I'm a business hippie!
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    Image of bluebears bluebears
    02/25/09

    @BrutallyHonestZombies: I live my life according to The Breakfast Club, its actually a bit of a problem. I keep turning up at highschools on the weekend and trying to talk to teens about their intimate sexual histories. yes, i have had several restraining orders entered against me.
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    Image of emilyanne emilyanne
    02/25/09

    @BrutallyHonestZombies: I wanted to live my life according to either The Thin Man or His Girl Friday. Sadly there are a lack of debonair cocktail drinking William Powell lookalikes in the world, so instead I settled for living my life according to Days of Wine and Roses instead. It won't be a long life but it's a relatively pleasant one.
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    Image of LaComtesse LaComtesse
    02/25/09

    @BrutallyHonestZombies: If it meant doing blow off a strippers ass with NPH, I would live my life according to "White Castle." As it stands now, however, I would like to live my life according to "Elizabeth": be queen of a European country and begrudgingly allow others to kill religious zealots to assert your power while feigning ignorance.
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    Image of la.donna.pietra la.donna.pietra
    02/25/09

    @emilyanne: I found the lack of seriously disposable income and fabulous cocktail dresses to be my main impediment towards the Thin Life, unfortunately. The debonaire cocktail-drinking guy, I have. (He doesn't look that much like William Powell, but he makes a mean Cosmo and happily drinks it, too.)
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    Image of sarah.of.a.lesser.god (aka Mrs. BrutallyHonestHobbit) sarah.of.a.lesser.god (aka Mrs. BrutallyHonestHobbit)
    02/25/09

    In reply to "Forget Slumdog Millionaire": It's All About The Manolos In Mumbai
    I hate the term "on the prowl."
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    02/25/09

    @sarah.of.a.lesser.god: Whenever I'm accused of stalking I say I'm 'on the prowl'. I think it sounds more dignified, but the cops rarely agree.
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    Image of lilbobbytables lilbobbytables
    02/25/09

    @sarah.of.a.lesser.god: Why? It is fitting for me, what with my all-black ninja suit, grappling hook, and fully armed crossbow i keep in my trunk at all times.


    Wait, are we talking about dating or cat burglary? I can never keep the two straight...

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    Image of morninggloria morninggloria
    02/25/09

    @sarah.of.a.lesser.god: What if it's in reference to an actual cat looking for actual mice to actually nom?
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    Image of debo matar la zombi goldberry83 debo matar la zombi goldberry83
    02/25/09

    @lilbobbytables: ...That's your dating outfit, right? Have I been doing this wrong?
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    Image of mllej mllej
    02/25/09

    In reply to "Forget Slumdog Millionaire": It's All About The Manolos In Mumbai
    I can't get beyond her first sentence (Kashyap's, not Sadie's). Scary Sadshaw indeed.
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    02/25/09

    In reply to "Forget Slumdog Millionaire": It's All About The Manolos In Mumbai
    As a first generation American I understand the whole "out of respect for your parents" thing.
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    Image of gangey gangey
    02/25/09

    @nyc-caribbean-ragazza: I may be old-fashioned, but as a third generation American (read: just a regular California girl) I also understand the whole "out of respect for your parents" thing.
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    Image of nyc-caribbean-ragazza nyc-caribbean-ragazza
    02/25/09

    @gangey:


    My parents were a little too strict and it wasn't easy growing up.


    Some of my friends would say all kinds of things to their parents who were so easy going. I didn't understand what they were complaining about.


    I valued my life so there was no yelling "I hate you" in my house. ha

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    Image of gangey gangey
    02/25/09

    @nyc-caribbean-ragazza: Same for me! I couldn't believe some of the things my friends said to their parents. My parents were really strict, and it wasn't easy at the time, but I think I turned out pretty well because of it!
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    Image of bluebears bluebears
    02/25/09

    In reply to "Forget Slumdog Millionaire": It's All About The Manolos In Mumbai
    Actually it makes sense that a conservative society would enjoy Sex in the City, as I've always found the show to be a conservative message wrapped up in glitzy paper.
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    Image of morninggloria morninggloria
    02/25/09

    @bluebears: Yes. I love the show; it is very crack-esque to my ladybrain, but I was watching an episode from the first season the other day and Carrie's voiceover referred to marriage as "the holy grail" for single ladies. It seemed startlingly old-fashioned and anti-feminist to me.


    But that's probably because I'm just jealous of everyone who is married and has kids and stuff.

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    Image of pandorasmittens pandorasmittens
    02/25/09

    @bluebears: That is exactly why that show irks me to no end. People claim it to be liberating, but it's not exactly liberating to engage in massive over-consumption of goods and services so that you may look good to not only men, but your female peers (and this, like many things is disguised as "doing it for onesself"). Instead of a 14 year old buying Abercrombie jeans, a 33 year old buys Manolos. It's a shallow treatise on conformity.


    And of course, we have the "I need a man! I want a man! Someday, I will find a man, and my dreams will be fulfilled!" message. But I already thought that one was pretty obvious.

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    Image of bluebears bluebears
    02/25/09

    @morninggloria: at least you can realize that about yourself. so many women are just in denial about their jealousy of the marrieds.
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    02/25/09

    @pandorasmittens: It's like they try to distract you with their gay male friends and frank talk about sex but the end message of the show is hetero-domesticity.
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    Image of LaComtesse LaComtesse
    02/25/09

    @morninggloria: In spite of your constant puns, I'm shocked that you like SATC. And remember; being married only means your legally obligated to deal with the fact that he farts in front of you ;-)
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    Image of morninggloria morninggloria
    02/25/09

    @LaComtesse: I think it's partially nostalgic, as friend group viewings of Sex and the City drunk comprised probably 30% of my freshman-junior year of college.
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