American women looked at her and her looks are unintimidating-think "if she can find a great guy than i can too". (The typical American woman would be more attractive than Parker if she could keep the weight off.) And yet Parker was the lead in this long running show where she's supposed to be sexy or something. But Parker is actually facially less attractive than the median American woman. There are lots of actresses i don't find particularly "cute" or "attractive". In contrast, the lead of that show-Sarah Jessica Parker-is remarkable for being an actually ugly (lead, not "character") actress. (Physics grad students-male-are pretty easy, and i always try to be a gentleman and help a lady in need.) And Cattrall is/was actually pretty attractive-unlike the lead in that show. Heck, if she'd asked me in say '83-when she was still in her prime reproductive age-i'd have been happy to put a baby in her. She should have had kids even before she even started that show. Kim Cattrall-just looked it up-is roughly my age, late boomer. The actress also blamed the show, which ran from 1998 to 2004, as the reason she did not have children One of my few black classmates at the same institution turned out to be the marijuana supplier to virtually the entire part of the student body that was into such things, so there’s that as Missouri Clearly, that makes me a terrible Racist or something. I must therefore admit that I never gathered enough evidence to validate or disprove the assumption I made about his academic record. I was not entirely shocked, therefore, when he suddenly disappeared from the residence hall mid-year - apparently stripped of his role after being arrested for beating his girlfriend, or something like that. I therefore assumed he was likely to be below-par academically, due to affirmative action, and an above-average risk for committing criminal mischief, due to ‘that’s how things are’ in the African American community.
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Many years ago, as a first year student at a certain New England Ivy League professional school, the more senior student appointed to be the sort-of residence hall proctor in my part of the residence hall was an gentleman of African American heritage. So in other words, not only did she forego family for carouseling, she forewent the fertility treatments that were supposed to remedy her foregoing. She said she decided not to undergo fertility treatments in part because of the show's demanding schedule and her 19-hour work days. The actress also blamed the show, which ran from 1998 to 2004, as the reason she did not have children. BTW, Kim Cattrall, who as I understand it, played the self-confident (if aging) slut in the series, now seems to agree with you. The Sarah Jessica Parker character gets into some kind of social/sexual jam that leaves her pumped and dumped but cash positive, and so she wonders whether she is a whore or just a slut, which struck me as probably emblematic of the entire series. Newman I saw about 15 minutes of an episode once. Nixon back then so you would have reason to believe me E.
I would have published my hypothesis about Ms. What, if anything, would you have done differently? Nixon, now running for governor of New York, announced she was a lesbian. I replied, “I can just tell.”Ī number of years later, Ms. I said, “That redhead actress playing Miranda, Cynthia Nixon, is obviously a lesbian.” My wife said she hadn’t noticed anything.
How did it end?īack in the 1990s, I was watching “Sex and the City” with my wife. We Want to Hear From You Tell us what happened. The past few weeks have seen a rash of headlines in which people of color who were simply going about their lives were unjustly accused of wrongdoing, and the police were summoned. Tell Us About a Time You Judged Someone Based on a StereotypeĪt Yale University, a dormitory resident called the campus police on a black student who fell asleep in a common room.Īt a Starbucks cafe in Philadelphia, an employee called the police on two black men who were waiting for a business associate.Īnd at a California Airbnb, a neighbor who thought she was witnessing a burglary called the police on three black guests as they were loading their suitcases into a car. The New York Times asks for volunteers for a Struggle Session: