Everyone Needs to Chill About Gen Z Watching ‘Sex and the City’

Exactly two weeks after I was born, Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) and her girls took to the stands at Yankee Stadium to gossip about big balls, whine about not being allowed to smoke in Giuliani’s NYC, and devour hot dogs (wink, wink). There I was, in front of the TV, unable to sit up straight, hold down food, or understand anything these four women were talking about. And yet, at just 14 days old, I couldn’t help but wonder if I had just become the world’s youngest Sex and the City fan.

Alright, that’s not how everything went down. I started watching Sex and the City in 2018, at age 19, after a friend couldn’t stop raving about it. I’m rewatching it now—on Max, obviously, where it’s been since the platform launched as HBO Max. But when recently Netflix added the series to its library, a whole “Gen Z has never seen Sex and the City and they aren’t ready!!” discourse began with it.

Still: I was there, people! I, a 24-year-old Gen Z woman, was alive when Sex and the City was originally airing. Maybe I was watching Arthur the aardvark instead of watching Charlotte (Kristin Davis) bang a troubled man named Arthur. People on the internet—and, more specifically, millennials—need to stop assuming that my generation and I 1.) have never seen an episode and 2.) are not ready for it to be problematic.

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