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(01-19-2015 05:30 PM)Troll King Wrote:  

(01-19-2015 07:00 AM)Fisto Wrote:  

Does every dumb bitch on the planet think they are cary bradshaw or whateverthefuck her name is?

Yup, they do. . . . . . why they are all so hooked on NYC?[/b]

I really don't get it. I have only been there a few times and I have never lived there and the few times I have been there I was mostly passing through and I admit I didn't get to see the site or night life but I still don't get it?

Is it really that great? The one time I actually got out into the city for a few hours...well, I wasn't impressed at all. The place smelled like piss and garbage and there were tons of homeless and drug addicts. Granted, this was late 90s or maybe early 00s and I was only there for a few hours on a layover but still. Why are so many women so enamored by the place?

I like NYC a lot, there's a blog I read from time to time, Jeremiah's Vanishing New York. The author does a good job of cataloging how all of the old-time bars, restaurants and small businesses are being replaced by SWPL mass market chains.

He's always been critical of the SATC phenomenon, because these copycat bitches have added market power to the ruination of things like men's Irish bars, traditional Kosher delis, inexpensive Italian restaurants, tailor shops, etc which get driven out when the rent goes up to make way for SATC-type boutiques and cupcake shops.

SATC is a good example of how market-driven popular culture not only ruins women, but it ruins our whole environment. It's also an illustration of what I always say, that feminism and its symptoms of cock-carousel riding, attention whoring, and hamster-spinning are not really a product of "Cultural Marxism," but a product of Capitalist Marketism, because women are the most profligate and predatory consumers. Their hamsters power ten thousand Bangladeshi clothing factories and ten thousand Brazilian shoe factories, with all the stores and advertising copywriters to go with them, so those hamsters must be fed.

Anyways, here's a few quotes on how Carrie Bradshaw ruined lower Manhattan from the blog:

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News flash: "the New York of Neil Simon now belongs to Carrie Bradshaw." When will it end? Never. Because there will, in fact, be a Sex & the City sequel.

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Cupcakes are just a symbol for the shiny Bloomberg-ized, Carrie Bradshaw-defined boutique city New York is turning into. I grew up during the 1970s, when the old New York--"King Kong's New York" if you like--was still very much in evidence, and would be well into the 90s. Like you, I've watched, often in horror, and particularly over the last decade, as the city has been transformed into something nearly unrecognizable and sadly lacking in character.

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2000: Sex & the City's Carrie Bradshaw bites into a pink-frosted Magnolia cupcake--the cupcake that launched a thousand luxury boutiques.

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Are we losing the fabulous Biography Bookshop to yet more Bleecker high fashion? This will be a horrible blow to the Village. And, yes, Carrie Bradshaw, I'll blame you.

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Drunkorexia: young women starve themselves all day so they can save up their caloric intake for binge drinking.

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After Sarah Jessica Parker ate a creamy retro cupcake on Sex and the City at a beloved local landmark, The Magnolia Bakery, the tour buses began circling. The lines outside the tiny bakery swelled into queues stretching around the corner. Soon, upscale clothing retailer Marc Jacobs, salivating over the youthful crowds, rented a shop right across the street."

And here's our smoking gun: “Our goal was to take advantage of the huge concentration of young people who flooded into the area, especially with the ‘Sex and the City’ show,” said Debbie Lee, a Marc Jacobs assistant manager.

The way a butterfly's wings can theoretically whip up a tornado, Carrie Bradshaw's bite of a cupcake set an avalanche in motion. That mouthful of buttery sweetness begat tour buses, which begat trendy lines, which begat Marc Jacobs. And what did Marc Jacobs beget?

Wrote the Observer, "Marc Jacobs didn’t invent the West Village, but his five stores there have made it into a precious, pricey, overpopulated, well-corduroyed, bubble-skirted dreamland." Time Out says this SATC effect created the "douchification of the Meatpacking District and the West Village," with "Lower East-Packing and Chinatown... neck-and-neck for the next douchey makeover," thanks to inclusion in the SATC movie.

http://vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com/200...mbled.html