and that's a shame. "On the fortieth anniversary of the '68 New York riots" what's most important is the botched premiere of "Sex and the City"?

I wish you were kidding. But since SITC defines the Joan Walsh Salon better than any other image, what else could be expected?

Time for a new political/lifestyle website that deals with reality. I know I'm looking.

"$4,000! That's practically the cost of a designer handbag!"

Thank you! I needed a good laugh right now. That tickled me plenty.

Thanks, Judy. This is an important crisis, a milestone in the patriarchal victimization of women that epitomizes women's struggles worldwide.

How many people died in Iraq this year? Never mind!

I cannot believe the amount of outrage (two out of three letters already) generated by the fact that BroadSheet did a light-hearted post about the premier of Sex and the City.

Of course, when they do a serious post, they are accused of buying into the sexist, misandrist belief that sexism against women actually exists and deserves serious coverage.

And even when they get the balance *just right*, it will be pointed out to them that, whatever they were talking about, the fact that many people were killed in Iraq this year is more important, so there!

Undoubtably that's true, but Salon does a very good job of reporting on the Iraqi war. There's room for articles about sexim too - and even for humorous pieces on S&tC. These things are not mutually exclusive; and Salon has not yet run out of room.

Thanks for your critical defence of BS's highlighting Sex in the City.

You go, girl!

...and that seems to happen on both sides of aisle, in all fairness.

Would it be possible, though, to maybe once-just once!-enjoy a goofy little "fluff news" story without someone trying to rub their own sense of moral and intellectual superiority in everyone's face?

I mean, for Pete's sake, I don't pretend this is Pulitzer-winning stuff here--I'm just reading it to unwind a little after work. Lighten up, already!

But, hey, since everyone wants to be outraged, I'm still pretty ticked off that "Carnivale" went off the air after only two seasons, while SITC gets run into the ground. And there's some kind of 90210 spin-off in the works? Gag me. I hated that show when it was still on the air.

They want a packed house. I thought everyone knew this.

SITC is quickly becoming a victim of its own bad pr planning. In a laugh out loud column in its for-real pages, the Onion's gal about town was less than turned on by the promotional martini event at Penn Station.

After a taste or two of the highly annoying tv trailers, I gleefully look forward to the critical pans.

(Yes, I am a killjoy. Is there a martini for that?)

It's Sex AND the City, or SATC.

If you're going to insult something, at least make sure you have the correct subject.

Jeez.

Also, you are an awful, awful person for wasting valuable time to respond to silly, fluffy Salon letters while war wages in Iraq.

Double jeez.

...and their lack of a sense of humor. I thought that was supposed to be our job!

Hey there!,

I really liked this article, which was kewl and sassy with a irony tone to it that is why I always read broadsheet.

I liked the way the writer is so much smarter than the stupid woman who has to cry all the way back to North Canada. It was kewl and sassy to show how stupid she was, and ingnert also to spend her 40000 dollars from her parents on something so stupid.

go Broadsheet! you are all so smart and very brave to show how the NYC primer of this movie is stupid.

I like the way you are so funny while you show how ignernt everyone else is. It is kewl and sassy.

sincerely,

Simone de Beauvoir

26 Rue de St.Vincente

How dare you post a letter (sarcastic or otherwise) about my BS defense, when you could be reading or writing about something important, like the number of people killed in Iraq this year??!?

Or - strangely - do your standards of evaluation not pertain to yourself?

I get a chuckle in this site and "sfgate.com", where there is a clearly labelled puff piece and people swarm in, posting diatribes about priorities and complaining about how the puff piece is "front page news". Considering the front page has about 50 things on it, I have to wonder where they get the time to get outraged over the 50 things on that page. And you KNOW that they are reading about a half dozen web sites a day, at LEAST. So, either they are reading and responding to 300 or so articles a day or they are looking for stuff to get outraged about like articles on sex, clothes, chocolate, or kittens. Um, actually, no one gets outraged about chocolate. But, jeez. Have a three line article about a kitten being rescued in Hanover, NH and about 100 cat haters stomp in from as far away as Syndney to complain about the coverage. Post about a fluffy movie, and you may as well be bulldozing Iraqui orphans.

What is interesting is that all of these people with puckery assholes are busily pounding the keyboard to complain about things that make other people happy and are not busily pounding the keyboard writing letters to Congress to, you know, DO something.

Anyway, most of my friends are puckery assholes, so I am going to be hard pressed to find some women to see the movie with. Its already gotten a rave review in San Francisco as the women's movie of the year. Halleluiah! A movie about WOMEN who talk to other women! Imagine that!

> A movie about WOMEN who talk to other women!

... about men.

:-)

Oh hush. I'm sure they talk about shoes, too.

Went off air???

Wasn't it a mini series?

I didn't even know there was TWO seasons....

AND WHY!

are so many people...(and by people I mean women because men are too smart to be enticed by such a show, only us stupid women...grouped as a whole would do such a silly, stupid thing)..Interested...even fans of something so retarded and boring it makes Nascar seem interesting. I've never seen a single episode...and THE COMMERCIALS ALONE allow me to foresee something that labels women as ass-chasers who like expensive shoes and sit around chirping like Barbie dolls.

So yea....SATC is a big feminist deal...only for the fact that it reflects on women. If we see men acting like pigs on tv....they must all be pigs. If we see women acting like pigeons with silicon breast on tv....then all women are superficial gold diggers.

Thats what I get from a 30 second sex and the city commercial.