Introduction
Ever since the sitcom “Sex and the City” appeared on HBO in 1998, this loose set of tales about middle-aged women, challenged by their existential inadequateness, became instantly “critically acclaimed”, even though the show’s ideological message can be best described as rather dubious. By watching “Sex and the City”, the audience is being instilled with the idea that women should only be preoccupied with pursuing their professional careers, even though that their sex life becomes limited to “one night stands”, as a result.
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This show appears to ridicule the very concept of family life as something “retrograde” and “outdated” while implying that “progressive” women’s foremost psychological trait is their cynicism. Even though that “Sex and the City” main characters oppose “sexism” and “male chauvinism” in their dialogues, they appear as being quite incapable of discussing just anything, for as long as it does not concern sex. In its turn, it only further strengthens men’s stereotype of women as hypersexual beings, whose whole lives revolve exclusively about sex and who cannot exist other than in the state of constant sexual tension. Therefore, there are enough reasons for us to think of “Sex and the City” as being marked by spiritual depravity, and the reason for it is that it was being conceived as one of the intellectual vehicles of neo-Liberalism from the very beginning. In its turn, one does not have to be overly smart, to draw links between this obscure political ideology and the agenda of America’s Jewish lobby. A closer look at “Sex and the City”, reveals it as essential as the product of Jewish “creative genius”. The show’s producer is Jewess Cindy Chupack, who is married to a rabbi. “Sex and the City” has been filmed at New York City’s Silvercup Studios, owned by Stuart and Alan Saunas (Jews). HBO channel is a subsidiary of Time Warner, Inc., whose CEO Gerald Levin is one of the most prominent members of the World Jewish Congress. In other words – “Sex and the City” cannot be discussed outside of those decadent ideas that Jewish Media magnates have been traditionally trying to impose upon people in Europe and America. The article “Anti-Semitism and the Left that Doesn’t Learn”, in which Mitchell Cohen defines the essence of “Jewishness”, confirms the validity of this statement: “My leftism and my intellectual open-mindedness comes from a commitment to, and an ethos of, democratic humanism and social egalitarianism” (Cohen 2008). There can be no definite answer as to why Jewish-owned Media are strongly committed to the promotion of neo-Liberal agenda, which undermines the national integrity of Western societies. However, it is only after we adopt a historical perspective on the issue, that we might be able to come up with clues to this question. In his book “Media and Power”, James Curran makes a good point, while discussing the historical role of media: “A historical perspective provides a critical distance which can make apparent and clarify things that seem blurred when only viewed in a contemporary context” (Curran 2002). It is namely such perspective that allows us to think of “Sex and the City” semantic message as being virtually the same as the message of another Jewish movie “Cabaret” (1972) – only the people who snort cocaine, practice “non-traditional sex” and indulge in pseudo-sophisticate conversations, are worthy of our admiration, as opposed to “intolerant rednecks”, who cannot find anything better to do with their lives than to constantly conspire against “talented” and “sensitive” representatives of “chosen people”. Therefore, we can say that, even though “Sex and the City” can be referred to as mildly amusing, the ideas it promotes are ideologically poisonous, as they encourage viewers to think of their professional careers and of their pursuit of riches as such that constitute the very purpose of their lives. Such ideas correspond rather well to Jewish mentality, but it is doubtful whether they can benefit the well-being of this nation, as a whole.
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