In today’s culture, it is common for women to climb the corporate ladder. No longer is “homemaker” or “housewife” a job title for women in America. More specifically, the double standard between men and women in regards to Sex, Money, and Power, has created cultural beliefs that men are superior to women in politics, business, and societal roles. Men no longer have absolute monopoly of promiscuous relationships and love lives. Establishing a career and maintaining female friendships have become just as important, if not more, as romance and marriage. "Sex and the City" is a television series that serves as a key cultural paradigm of post feminism, with some inconsistencies that may appear more superficial.
The availability of various television genres in today’s world have changed significantly compared to that of a decade ago. In part, we owe much thanks to the television sitcom that dared to challenge the cultural role of women. HBO’s romantic comedy, Sex and the City, aired on cable television on June 6, 1998. It quickly became one of the highest-rated sitcoms of that year. Although the original broadcasts were only run on HBO, by 2004, the hit sitcom was aired in syndication on many local stations. Sex and the City was based on Candace Bushnell’s book, which compiled from her columns with the New York Observer newspaper. Candace created an alter ego of herself in Carrie Bradshaw’s character along with Miranda Hobbes, Samantha Jones, and Charlotte York as her depictions of her three girlfriends. All four women are in their mid-thirties and are depicted as independent, working women, who live among the upper class neighborhoods of New York.
The four main characters each symbolize different post feminist attributes. Miranda Hobbes is the cynical lawyer with boyish red hair that symbolizes the intelligent, self assured, and accomplished woman who refuses the possibility of being single. Miranda is the modern example of success in a corporate world, while her...