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Post  Posted: Jan 08, 2006 - 03:07 AM  Reply with quote  Back to top
Post subject: Sex and the city impact in Shanghai

Being an extraordinairy popular serie here among the Shanghainese ladies the impact of this series is seen everywhere

- They views of a good man should be just as in the serie: rich, handsome and absolutely perfect

- You can change your boyfriends faster then the newspaper of yesterday

- Sex at first date is law

- Romance and sensitivity isn't an option

- Sex should come first

- Marriage is for hopeless romantics and should be abondanded

- If over 30 the young ladies of 20 something are your archenemies

etc. etc.

Shouldn't we just watch tv shows as reverance and use the over the top and contradicted situations show a mirror and leanr as to be careful, but not turn us into paranoid freaks or its the new millenium and it should be like that?

Or why do we keep looking for something weird and when we find a small thing and lose the one actually cares for us and then still complain about why we can't find a match Shocked

etc.

etc.

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Post  Posted: Jan 08, 2006 - 11:38 AM  Reply with quote  Back to top

I agree that TV/movies/media do have an impact on us individually and in society but the content of this show is really nothing new to Shanghai. Crikey go back 200 years in history, a time so pleasure orientated that it led one person to say "If God allows Shanghai, he owes Sodom and Gomorrah an apology!"

Check out 'Shanghai-the rise and fall of a decadent city' by Stella Dong. It is quite an eye opener.

But yes, this city is bloody awful for the romantics out there...

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Post  Posted: Jan 08, 2006 - 02:56 PM  Reply with quote  Back to top
Post subject: Re: Sex and the city impact in Shanghai

itv1980 wrote:
- They views of a good man should be just as in the serie: rich, handsome and absolutely perfect


You forgot to mentione SIZE... FOCUS, boy... SIZE... Am I wrong???
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Post  Posted: Jan 08, 2006 - 05:27 PM  Reply with quote  Back to top

I always think Sex and the city is gonna teach each girls to be the slut. I never watch it myself but heard some parts of the TV show from a friend, oh crap!

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lemongrass wrote:
I always think Sex and the city is gonna teach each girls to be the slut. I never watch it myself but heard some parts of the TV show from a friend, oh crap!


Lemonie, you should watch it... get the full episodes, full seasons en I bet you would never leave your room for as long as your dvd player last. Uhm, do I sound like exaggerating?? Maybe... the first episodes're boring... but later got better en hillarious more en more. I dont see the movie as some sort of mechanism to brainwash or demoralise anyone, rather I think the serials are funny... I call it an effort for womanizer... Very Happy
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Post  Posted: Jan 10, 2006 - 02:34 AM  Reply with quote  Back to top

uuuhhh i dont get it.
whats the attraction to this show anyway?
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The characters in "Sex and the City" represent the wishful thinking of young women everywhere. They wish they were so glamorous, so sexy, and so successful. They wish they had so many boyfriends, all so rich, cool, and handsome. They wish they could change partners as often as they change clothes with no emotional repercussions. They wish they could drop $600 on a pair of Manolos without having to worry about paying the rent.

There's a reason it's a successful TV series. It's pure fantasy.

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I thought it was crap. Bunch of women bitching that they didn't have a boyfriend. Then when they got a boyfriend they bitched about the boyfriend. Then then bitched about not getting married. Once two of them got married two bitched about their husbands, while the third bitched that she still wasn't married.
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Post  Posted: Jan 10, 2006 - 08:16 AM  Reply with quote  Back to top

Is indeed like Goosie, pure fantasy wolrd. Plus it focus espcially on the sizes of the equipment, but its just over the top, that it makes completely fun out of the whole situation.

It just shows how silly some things can be and appriciate the things we actually already have more. Mr. Green

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Post  Posted: Jan 10, 2006 - 09:39 AM  Reply with quote  Back to top

Most chinese girls that have seen the show thought that is the norm in the US. Rolling Eyes
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Post  Posted: Jan 10, 2006 - 09:04 PM  Reply with quote  Back to top

OK...thanks Goosie, obviously not a fan.
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Gee Man, you wont like the show, you would even hate any gal who watches that serials...hehehhee...
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Post  Posted: Jan 10, 2006 - 11:23 PM  Reply with quote  Back to top

chinese girls r very simple creatures, they believe anything they see. they take nothing with a pinch of saly or any skepticism and know nothing outside their hometown.

they r all shallow little cheap tramps here just like those whores on television, except theres 200, 000 of them for every white guy
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Ah, fukuman. So much poon, so little time.

If you need some intellectual stimulation, MSN me, babycakes.

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yeah youre prolly right Dragon.
babes that watch that kind of crap prolly spend way too much time in front of the great brain suck anyway.
burning through life is so much more stimulating anyway.
seriously im an oddball.
never have much use for most of the inane feces that airs on tv.
like the "reality tv". whose reality is this anyway?
big brother, wtf is that. where do they get these bottom feeders? what is the purpose of this whole thing?
the biggest looser, is what our society has come to?
blablablablabla
too many more to even name.
dazed and confused and def dont understand the attraction.
you know what.
i am considering that his is the work of the dwarves and midgets.
STOP LAUGHING DAMMIT!
im serious here.
have you ever considereed the fact that they could be doing this, airing this shite on tv to try to suck peoples brains out?
and then a vacume would be created and their heads would implode!
and then all these people would be walking around with caved in heads!
now, how the hell would that look?
think about it next time youre watching said garbage.
uh oh yeah,
sorry for hijacking the thread momentarily itv.
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Post  Posted: Jan 11, 2006 - 11:34 PM  Reply with quote  Back to top

"i am considering that his is the work of the dwarves and midgets."

hey you play with this again ah...

Dragonie maybe you are right but I would rather watch LOST one more time than watching this TV show. Not every girl is living with fairy tale.

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Post  Posted: Jan 12, 2006 - 12:11 AM  Reply with quote  Back to top

Not the fairy tale which makes the serials amusing...
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Post  Posted: Jan 13, 2006 - 02:18 AM  Reply with quote  Back to top

well...i wouldnt say playing with the little devils. buy you can all rest assured that i never take my eyes off em either.
i keep trying to tell you guyz ahd galz that they are really really sneaky little farts and on top of that sneaky as hell too.
i fear that they got aquazon and thats why we dont hear from her anymore. but just wait. after a little while we will begin to hear from her because they locked her in a rubber room and analyzed her behavior so that they could have a "look alike" here to keep an eye on us.
this is SOP for them.
im tellin you all this is real shite, be careful.
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