Are You A Charlotte?
Is That You In Painting Number Three?... (S1E5 "The Power of Female Sex")
Mon, 03 Mar 2025
Hats off to you.... Kirstin delivers a fashion revelation that has us scratching our heads. As we begin to analyze Carrie's money woes, one can consider if Carrie Bradshaw should be better with her finances or if it makes perfect cents? Kristin admits to one of her worst fears, which is realized within this episode. And, she explains why Charlotte's bold behavior with Neville is not surprising at all. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
What is the main theme explored in this episode?
Okay, they're in the hotel room. Carrie calls Miranda and Samantha to come over. They come over and they order just a whole bunch of food because they're going to spend the Frenchman's money. And they have a very fascinating conversation that I literally would play for you guys if I could right now, but I don't have it. They discuss money. Money is power. Sex is power.
Money for sex is simply an exchange for power. I believe Samantha says that, I think. And then Miranda is like, no, you know, don't give away your power. You know, you want to have your own power. And they kind of overlap each other, which is also kind of unheard of in our show and something that we didn't get to do much of as the years went on. But I really love the whole conversation.
And I think that is very interesting back then. And I think it's very interesting now. And now, like, I don't know if you guys feel this way, but sometimes when I'm talking to people like, like, for instance, well, I shouldn't mention anyone. But for instance, sometimes I talk to people about dating and dating in New York, L.A., wherever.
And people talk about that younger women are into status, that they're like they might be dating the older guy for status and money or power. I think something to that effect. And I believe Blakely and I talked about this last week because people had a lot to say on the Instagram about, you know, whether men who have status and power care at all about what women think. Someone thinks they don't.
And I was like, LOL. That's what I said. Because, you know, I think everyone wants to be loved. This is what I think. But obviously, I play Charlotte, right? So, of course, I would think that. But to my mind, everyone wants to be loved, like truly deeply loved. Maybe it's more important to some people and less important to others. But even men with status and money want to be loved.
I'm just sure they do. I mean, do they probably do what they want anyway? Yes, they probably do. But I do think that people in general, men and women, want to be loved, right? But I also think...
Sometimes the women have been socialized to think that they need to achieve a certain status and that that status might be based on what man they were dating or what that man has or drives or what his job is. And to me, I think that's kind of sad only because when that man changes his mind, what is that woman going to be left with? And I always feel like...
Do not depend on a man for your financial well-being. That's my personal advice in general. I know I'm getting into terrible, terrible territory at this point, but whatever. But I love these conversations because I do think it's still very, very, very interesting to talk about men and women and money and sex and power and the exchange of that.
And I love the kind of liveliness with which it is discussed in the episode. Yeah. Then, oh, Lord, oh, Lord, we cut to Charlotte and Charlotte is out in the woods in Connecticut. She's gone to see this artist who she thinks that she's going to get to represent that.
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