What's up, guys. Welcome back to the pod. Happy Friday. Hope everyone is having a fantastic week. And then you all have fun, exhilarating plans for the weekend. I am going to Toronto tonight. I'm in Toronto currently. So if you are here, check out Saluna because we're going to be DJing tonight. I'm very excited. And then I'm going to make Lucas get up at the ass crack of dawn tomorrow because I'm a psychopath. So sorry Lucas, but honestly, he deserves it. So whatever. Who cares, right? I just am sad. I don't have more time to chill in Toronto and go to the long list of restaurants that you guys have recommended me.

But I hope by at this point of the day, I have gotten my nut bar latte because nut bar rocks.

I want to talk about the and just like that finale.

Now, let me back up.

I have watched this show.

I've watched Sex in the City since I was in high school. I watched it with my mom. I don't think it's any surprise that I wanted to be like the women in Sex and City. Like so many of us, right? That was like an entire generation of women grew up mesmerized by Carrie, but all of the women. And I didn't want to be like Carrie herself per se

because, you know, as we all agree, she can be annoying, she can be a bad friend, whatever.

But the life that they all shared collectively, I wanted. The shoes, the parties, getting

invited to places, having careers, having boyfriends, having sex,

talking about it with your friends. I was so sold on that. I thought this is what, this is a bit of

me. This is what I want. And I have loved this show. It is so important to me.

I write about Sex and City in The Shift.

I open my first book with a commentary on Sex and City.

Now, I want to be honest.

It is a critique of Sex and City that I write in my book.

And I think collectively we've all been really critical of the show in years past.

But to me, I've always thought of that as a testament to the importance of the show. I've always thought that the ongoing discourse,

sometimes negative, often negative, is a testament to its importance in the zeitgeist, its importance for women,

it's importance for sex and sex positivity, something I'm very passionate about. And I never

considered it was a negative thing. Like I tried to put myself in the shoes of the creators of the show.

I would hope that I would think, wow, it's pretty cool that the show is still being discussed

20 years later.

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