One of the things that attracts my attention the most Sex in New York It is the presence of man. Not from the man as human, but of man as a crowd: the parade of male characters in ‘SATC’ makes it clear that here they are the American football team and they are the cheerleaders. Or at least that is the intention.
It is possible that none of those girls passed the Bechdel test, but, if it were up to the scriptwriters, they would not even pass the psychotechnical test.
Always cut from the same cloth, the singles of lower Manhattan are elegant but impertinent, charming but impersonal, successful but boring, rich but the three previous pejorative adjectives… Lights and shadows where the shadows end up being very long.
Men whose personality is, ultimately, to be men.
I’m not saying that Carrie, Miranda, Charlotte and Samantha are better, far from it (although a group of friends talking considerably loudly about their deepest, darkest secrets in broad daylight will always have me on their side). What I am saying is that there is nothing more devastating than being alone man. be alone man kill the kid. And that is not understood kid As a canalita, nothing could be further from the truth. Ramón Gómez de la Serna explains it to you now.
Back in 1934, Gómez de la Serna discerned in ‘Essay on corniness’ between the cheesy good and the cheesy bad; While the cheesy good is the sensitive and “The sensitive does not take advantage of tenderness, but rather makes it work in pure waves.” […] “It girds our soul and mocks aseptic norms.”the corny bad is the maudlin and “The sentimental coerces, numbs, immobilizes, suppresses the flight of the spirit and takes advantage of the dullness of tenderness.” […] “sterilizes life and prevents understanding”.
It cheesy bad is he man; it cheesy goodhe kid.
I mentioned before that being alone man kill the kid and with the death of kid Tenderness and intimacy die.
The cheesy bad thing is, ultimately, not being friends with your partner.
Which is basically the common denominator of all ‘SATC’ relationships: no one is friends with their partner.
With this calico, it is not until the middle of the 2nd season (eighth episode, to be exact) when the script team gives the green light to introduce the first specimen of nice uncle.
This is Steve Brady, who comes into Miranda’s life collaterally in The man, the myth and Viagra when, for the first time, Carrie’s selfishness works in favor of someone other than herself (she stands Miranda up at Steve’s bar to watch Big batter a schnitzel).
By the way, five minutes before all this happens, Donald Trump appears on the screen and Samantha gets funny with the old crook and philo-fascist (it’s very difficult to keep up with this series if you start looking at your phone).
The short version of the story is that boy meets girl, girl makes a couple of comments about being a waiter that make it clear that she is not a labor lawyer, and they sleep. You have the long version on Netflix.
Sure, Steve has his stuff, but within the astringent, apathetic turnip field that is the county with the highest per capita income in New York, finding yourself with a kid Along the way it is not only going from Guatepeor to Guatemala, it is reaching the border with El Salvador.
(NOTICE: I don’t want to say that a guy has to come save anyone, but sometimes geography plays in favor of the metaphor and you have to take advantage of it)
However, what I have just developed is not entirely true. Before Steve there was a prototype of nice uncle. His appearance was brief and without the possibility of return. I mean Ben, a kid who only came out in the second half of 2×03, ‘The Weird Show’, and who didn’t even have time to give him a last name.
There is little to say about Ben: he was nice, calm, very cute, thin-framed glasses, a small Tweety tattoo, he had fun with his colleagues and he had everything to represent a turning point for those of us who are now the same years as the series. Of the same strain as Hugh Grant in ‘Notting Hill’, come on. He hooked up with Carrie and the story was short. Of course, https://twitter.com/lordesbbqribs/status/1786112053716947266but Ramón Gómez de la Serna also said that “The corniness is plotted with the discovery of the bride who was never found and who was the predestined one.”
And, just five chapters later, in a less chic and manhattarian (Ben was an editor at a political magazine) Steve arrives.
Steve is funny, wears glasses and carries a book in hand while throwing pints. I have seen the best minds of my generation (my friends) fall for less.
It would be very nice to close this article by saying that these are the new masculinities and that Steve Brady is the Ubermensch from Playz, but I wouldn’t be able to sleep a wink for the rest of my life.
Although, at the end of the day, what is understood as new masculinities if not the convergence of behaviors attributed to femininity and the conventionality of the old ones? Well, little more, in short, all this terminology only arises from the fear that arouses the feather and that, honestly, is very Sex and the City of youif you don’t believe me go three episodes later, to episode 11 of the 2nd season.
What is clear is that, if ‘SATC’ were recorded now, Steve would be the one who flirted the most and Mr. Big would occasionally wear a host with a tote bag.
