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Barbara Kay on Sex and the City: “SATC projects an ideological fantasy rather than a probing exploration of modern courtship. The framing notion is that women are in every important way the same as men, that serial relationships -- with no permanent commitment in view -- are an end in themselves, and that intimacy is a fungible accessory to a sexual hook-up. Most of all, this subversive ideology implies that marriage is no better than other sexually-motivated relationship contracts, willfully ignoring persuasive counterclaims for marriage's unique power to enrich relationship quality, arguments from tradition, sociological research, and plain common sense.”
