ext_13053 ([identity profile] arctangent.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] xenologer 2008-07-26 06:17 pm (UTC)

My point is that when you look at the specific people involved rather than lumping them all into one monoculture, the guys who really deeply loathe Hillary Clinton in a misogynistic way probably also loathe the Sex and the City characters in an equally misogynistic way. Indeed, they would probably lump Hillary Clinton and the Sex and the City characters into the *same category*, of "women who won't shut up" or whatever.

And I have no way of knowing but I'd bet that a lot of Sex and the City fans were also Clinton supporters in the primary.

It is indeed true in many ways that Sex and the City is in many ways deeply incompatible with the feminism Clinton's campaign stood for. To claim that Sex and the City is some kind of weapon in the war against Clinton, though, or a rallying cry for misogynists everywhere -- that's just overreaching, a typical oversimplified cultural analysis with no nuance.

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