Why we men just hate Sex & The City



I'd love to be able to tell you in precise detail what it is that I so thoroughly loathe about Sex And The City.



But to do that, I'd have to sit down and watch it - and frankly I'd rather be dipped in honey, dangled upside-down from a tree and eaten alive by fire ants.



Sarah Jessica Parker, left, doesn't have the same appeal to male viewers as Scarlett Johannson...



What I do recall, with nightmarish clarity from those few occasions I've caught it, is that it's all about shoes. And middle-aged women talking a lot. And middle-aged women having embarrassing sex with various unsuitable partners. And then deconstructing at tedious length the embarrassing sex they have had with these unsuitable partners. And me covering my eyes (like I haven't done since Jon Pertwee encountered the Sea Devils in Doctor Who) and going: 'Nooooo!'



Part of the problem is Carrie Bradshaw, played by Sarah Jessica Parker.

I don't want to sound ungallant, but if a male has to sit through a show about women talking a lot, the women should at least all look like Scarlett Johansson.

And before you try to pick me up on my shallow sexism, girls, just ask yourselves whether you're any better at watching the rough male equivalent of Sex And The City - Band Of Brothers.



You're not. You say stupid, unhelpful things like 'Well they all look the same to me under those helmets. How can you tell them apart?' and: 'This is like watching paint dry.' Yes - or like watching Sex And The City.

Not only am I not interested, but I'm also a bit disgusted. As disgusted as you girls would be if there was a drama series on every week in which goatish middle-aged men bored on about the latest must-have Lamborghini, slept with sundry females, crudely dissected their looks and performances, and then invited us to pity their terrible dilemma: is it possible to go on being a good father and husband while bonking as many floozies as you can on the side?

Oh, and Manolo Blahniks: we don't understand and we never will.









