My problem is that she doesn't make explicit the connection here between a culture in which women like being portrayed as sex-crazed shoe-addicts and the culture in which Hillary Clinton nutcrackers are acceptable. I'm not going to touch her assertion that no racist remarks were made about Barack Obama (since the assertion is pretty ludicrous if you give it even a moment's thought), but I do think that this article would be greatly improved if I knew what the hell her thesis statement was--what exactly she's saying.

The closest I can come to puzzling out her point is that Sex and the City presents a new female stereotype that carries its own misogynist overtones: a successful woman is a sassy materialist obsessed with thousand-dollar shoes and getting sex from hot businessmen. But then again, I have no way of really telling whether this is her point, since she doesn't come out and say that.