After over ten years of first seeing Sex and the City on DVD, I’ve been watching (and/or just listening to) Sex and the City on HBO in the background as I’ve been working on my crafts projects, researching travel, and reading. I was addicted to this show after I watched just two episodes. I’ve never been a big TV person, but I have never been addicted to any TV show like this one and watched it and known the episodes by heart since Saved by the Bell (the original class). But now that I’m watching it in the year 2015 instead of 2004 when I first watched it, I feel like the characters are annoying me even more than they annoyed me then. Then, I at least found them tolerable and humorous. Now, they just piss me off.

Charlotte was always my least favorite, and I guess from her general description, it would surprise no one: she’s a “rich bitch” who grew up with a lot of privilege, believes strongly in gender roles and is an old-fashioned traditionalist. She, along with Carrie, probably piss me off the most now. I think their selfishness is shining through even more glaringly now than they had when I first watched these episodes over ten years ago. In Charlotte’s worst moments that made me want to grind my teeth, she was having fertility issues and got angry when she found out Miranda accidentally got pregnant. “How could you do this to me?” she yelled at Miranda in the coffee shop. Um, no. No one did anything to you. The world doesn’t revolve around you. In another scene, she and her husband are having sexual intimacy issues because her first husband can’t “get it up,” so she snaps at Samantha for having sex with strangers and asks her when she is going to recognize that sex is more than just sex; it’s supposed to be “sacred.” Carrie annoys me with her own selfishness. She knows Aidan is moving in with her, but refuses to make space in her closet for his belongings. He buys her a brand new Mac when hers has a melt down, and she is totally ungrateful for it and says she doesn’t need it and has her own backing up method (she doesn’t).

I guess the more I think about it, the more I realize why women relate to these women — it’s because we see our own selfish selves reflected in the Sex and the City women, and thus we relate. We’re all selfish witches ourselves.