Sex and the City; We are Real People
Carrie Falls in front on the runway, but picks herself up and keeps going. Metaphor for life. Real people pick themselves up and keep on going.
Sex and the City; "Did I really love Big?
Carrie and Big say farewell when he moves to Paris. She moves on and decides that she can no longer take the pain and questions her love to Big.
Sex and the City The Four Soul Mates
The ladies decide they don't need men to fulfill themselves, and choose their friends as soul mates and save the men for a nice time out on the town.
Sex and the City Urban Shoe Myth
- This directly relates to the Carrie Bradshaw syndrome, where the new generations, specifically women are able to achiever 30 pairs of shoes before they can save 30, 000 dollars. Link for the article is below
Sex and the City Tribute
Tribute to the Ladies and greatest moments through the series.
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Monday, November 24, 2008
Saturday, November 22, 2008
Group Presentation
My Experience......
My mother always repeated what my grandmother had said to her, and said if you do not have anything nice to say, keep it to yourself. Well I am not my mother, and had she dealt with what I went through she may have changed her mind. I have never been in a group in all the years as an undergraduate or a post grad and had this experience before. With the exception of two other hard working ladies. I heard from no one. Communication was non-existent, no matter how many emails were sent out. Group assignments were given out by people who did not even bother to reply to anyone. Yes it was a crazy semester, and having 8 women try and get together to organize a project should have been possible. The one meeting we were suppose to have was can canceled about 20 minutes before I arrived at the place. Yes Fires were burning less than 2 miles from my house and my windshield was covered in ash, but I got in my car with my paper mask and found a way to get towards Encino, where I received a voice mail saying the group meeting was canceled due to poor air quality. Keep in mind the meeting was inside. The group project was nothing more than us working individually and standing as a collective in front of the class. The tension was as thick as brie cheese. Fortunately enough, things worked out, though the presentation was extremely long. I was assingned Carrie, and the men she dated. That is what I was allowed to speak of, though I tried to include her fashion and the idea that she was more complicated than the rest because of her ties to the city. Carrie was not just a fashion Icon, but a symbol for change amoung the female gender. She spoke of sex, her opinion, and changedthe culture to allow those ideas to be discussed. Her characterized "raunch ideal" changed America and allowed us to be open about our sexualities. Chris Barker states on page 313 of his text, "(Raunch )observes that women identifying within this 'culture' speak of their rights to objectify sexuality like a man, inculding looking at and enacting pornography. They reject the idea that women should behave as victims and clain the right to do whatever they want to their bodies and to look how they wish.....Rather they are entitled to rejoice in their own sexuality and to act on it in just as assertice and even predatory a way as men." His idea of raunch culture as postfeminine part-time allows the idea for it to be okay for a woman to accept her sexuality, and with this approval, others were able to feel allowed to follow ship. Carrie and the Sex and the City show broke through stereotypes and became accepted and loved by all who watched the show.
My mother always repeated what my grandmother had said to her, and said if you do not have anything nice to say, keep it to yourself. Well I am not my mother, and had she dealt with what I went through she may have changed her mind. I have never been in a group in all the years as an undergraduate or a post grad and had this experience before. With the exception of two other hard working ladies. I heard from no one. Communication was non-existent, no matter how many emails were sent out. Group assignments were given out by people who did not even bother to reply to anyone. Yes it was a crazy semester, and having 8 women try and get together to organize a project should have been possible. The one meeting we were suppose to have was can canceled about 20 minutes before I arrived at the place. Yes Fires were burning less than 2 miles from my house and my windshield was covered in ash, but I got in my car with my paper mask and found a way to get towards Encino, where I received a voice mail saying the group meeting was canceled due to poor air quality. Keep in mind the meeting was inside. The group project was nothing more than us working individually and standing as a collective in front of the class. The tension was as thick as brie cheese. Fortunately enough, things worked out, though the presentation was extremely long. I was assingned Carrie, and the men she dated. That is what I was allowed to speak of, though I tried to include her fashion and the idea that she was more complicated than the rest because of her ties to the city. Carrie was not just a fashion Icon, but a symbol for change amoung the female gender. She spoke of sex, her opinion, and changedthe culture to allow those ideas to be discussed. Her characterized "raunch ideal" changed America and allowed us to be open about our sexualities. Chris Barker states on page 313 of his text, "(Raunch )observes that women identifying within this 'culture' speak of their rights to objectify sexuality like a man, inculding looking at and enacting pornography. They reject the idea that women should behave as victims and clain the right to do whatever they want to their bodies and to look how they wish.....Rather they are entitled to rejoice in their own sexuality and to act on it in just as assertice and even predatory a way as men." His idea of raunch culture as postfeminine part-time allows the idea for it to be okay for a woman to accept her sexuality, and with this approval, others were able to feel allowed to follow ship. Carrie and the Sex and the City show broke through stereotypes and became accepted and loved by all who watched the show.
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Monday, November 17, 2008
Carrie Bradshaw
The Love, The Fashion and of Course The SexThe main character from Sex and the City, Carrie Bradshaw was loosely based off creator Candace Bushnell. Bushnell wrote the original column for the same name. Her subjects spoke of sexuality and of what it was like to be a woman during a time when the glass ceiling prevented women from succeeding in a mans world. The Sex and the City column then shortly became a book, which landed Bushnell a opportunity to turn her experiences into a show on HBO. The four female characters Carrie, Miranda, Charlotte and Samantha each symbolically represent a specific type of female stereotype and classification. Though the three other character stay true to their stereotypes Carrie the main character is a a collaboration of all three and is said to be like every woman. Carrie falls in and out of love, and has an obsession with shoes that she can not afford. She writes about her experiences and uses her heart as basis for
material.Carrie is an important part of Style, because her wardrobe on the show has created a
phenomenon. New York, is one of the fashion capitals of the world and millions of viewers tuned in to not only take a sneak peak into the four friends single lives, but also to see what outrageous fashion trend Ms. Bradshaw would invent. Most talked about fashion moments include the Carrie Necklace, the Engagement ring necklace, the over sized flower as brooch, the stripped shirt. The Shoes, shoes, shoes, shoes. The bags, accessories, and of course as of lately the floral dresses. Carries style as that with the other women has been none the less outrageous, but also has made a statement of her individuality. Has she like the rest of the culture fallen victim to what the fashion moguls decided what will be popular. Did she have a Minolo Blankis obsession due to the fact that they are labeled as high class shoes or is she a fan of the art of what they represent.
Carrie is not only known just for her fashion sense and her sexual experiences, but also for her relationships. Her relationships define Carrie more than anything else. Th
e most prominent character Mr. Big, which she ends up marrying in a very Romantic comedy genre movie, causes her the most turmoil through the ten year period she had dated him. Back and forth dating, affairs, marriages and moving to different states and country's could not keep them apart. In between Carrie and Mr. Big, she dated others who also made Carrie realize who she really was. Three other who became famous in their own rights, were Aiden, Alesander Petrovski, and Berger. Sweet Lovable Aiden took Carrie back after she cheated on him with Mr. Big. He loved her deeply, but tried to change her. Trying to take the New York out of Carrie, and be something she was not made her feel restless and confused. Though she gave up smoking and contact with Big, Carrie ultimately realized that she was not the one for Aiden, and they parted ways the second time around. After Aiden there was the infamous Berger who cowardly broke up with her on a Post it, and invariably became famous for his lack of courtesy and human decency.
Alesander Petrovski the last man before the end of the season whisked a confused Carrie off to Paris, only to abandon her and force her to change into a dependent woman she could never be. Her mistake of running off to be with him and re-arrange her entire life made her realize how much of a New Yorker she was
. Mr. Big like New York could be the only man she could truly love, because in fact. Mr. Big represented all things New York. Big was the mysteriously successful, famous persona that the City represented, and though she had a tumultuous and difficult relationship she knew she wouldn't have it any other way.
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