Women face all sorts of issues; single, weight, age, looks. This episode of Sex and the City is just that, a summary of all of the women’s insecurities and how they plan on fixing them – or most of them.
The episode starts off with Miranda attending a dinner party with Nick a modelizer – a man who only dates models. She quickly runs to her friends to talk about how she didn’t even know that she was on a date with a modelizer because of an ultimatum presented to him by his friends.
The episode is surrounded by the idea of men dating models. The central theme is then discussed around how do ‘normal’ women have a chance if men that aren’t even that good looking date models.
The girls all gather together for a girl’s night and they discuss their insecurities. Charlotte hates her thighs, Carries hates her nose, Miranda just wants to force feed the models, and Samantha was perfectly happy with the way she looks and thinks that she can be perfectly fine with dating a modelizer because she (apparently) looks like one.
To satisfy herself and her idea that she is a model Samantha decided to date a modelizer and have him tape her having sex.
This episode of Sex and the City brings up one of most North American women have issues with, weight and physical looks. Sex and the City has a way of bringing up different issues that really need to have light drawn to them. Women have this ideal set out for them and have always had the ideal set out for them, they must be visually appealing, married by a certain age, and be the perfect house wife. Because of Sex and the City things that have had to been kept under wraps in previous years have now been injected into real life and women can actually talk about issues that are important to them.
It is no longer taboo to talk about sex, our insecurities, or even obsessions with the way women look. This episode shows us that speaking out as women in how we feel and what we think is relevant to the world today. In the 1960s women had to conform to the way they were expected to act. The Brady Bunch would show women as under control, the perfect housewife with minor worries that wouldn’t have much significance to today’s woman. Women now face issues, usually more personal issues that most every woman is facing.
At the end of each episode after the women all seem to sort out how they feel on a certain issue there is a general line focused at today’s woman. Carrie, at the end of the episode realizes that beauty is fleeting and something genuine is forever.
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