"The Cheating Curve" By: Laura Daniel

Aired: July 11, 1999

Season 2 Episode 6

Plot Summary:

The "Power Lesbians" at Charlottes gallery

Charlotte meets the power lesbian and has a great sell in the gallery. She then goes on an anti man binge and focuses her attention on the female spirit. Samantha starts dating her personal trainer Thor and he ends up enjoying shaving her legs and her pubic hair into a lightning bolt, but she quickly found out that she wasn’t the only flash in Thors life. Miranda is dating a man who is more interested in turning on the porn to get in the mood than focusing on Miranda. Carrie sneaks away from her friends for a date with Mr. Big.

Sex and the City thus far:

Through out Sex and the City thus far we have seen common themes where the girls are always there for each other. There is no issue in their lives that they go through themselves with out the help of their friends. They have created a network within each episode that carries through each season. Most of the episodes are episodic but you still need to know what is going on through out each season to know what’s going on.



Is this all we really need?



I am finding with the more of Sex and the City that I watch the more it feels like it wants to show women as independent and fine on their own when really the whole feel of Sex and the City shows women who just want men. They want men, sex, and to not be alone.

Women – I think – need to be seen as independent and not craving constant attention from men, which, is the main focus of the women of Sex and the City. This is why I like this episode inparticualar where Charlotte proposes that she doesn't need men and that she really enjoys the connection that she feels that women should have together.

Is girl power the thing we really need to prove that we - as women - can do anything and don't need a man? Isn't this what Sex and the City was all about when it first began? Miranda was shown as the one who didn't need a man, Samantha just used men for sex... maybe the show has changed from independent women of the 90's to the needy women of the 2000's?