Sex and the City author Candace Bushnell says the beloved HBO adaptation should not serve as a guide for how women should live. “We never talk about this, but that’s something that women nee…
not serve as a guide for how women should live.
“We never talk about this, but that’s something that women need to think about: You can do a lot less . . . when you have to rely on a man,” Bushnell said in a New York Post interview. “The TV show and the message were not very feminist at the end. But that’s TV. That’s entertainment. That’s why people should not base their lives on a TV show.”
Regarding the super fans who look to the show for guidance, Bushnell minimized the importance of landing your own “Mr. Big” – the now-famous archetype of the elusive, attractive and successful metropolitan man.“The reality is, finding a guy is maybe not your best economic choice in the long term. Men can be very dangerous to women in a lot of different ways,” Bushnell said.
The original series was based off Bushnell’s book of the same name, which started as a confessional dating column that ran in theHer friend, a television producer named Darren Starr, picked up the rights and adapted the book into the now-famous HBO series.
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