Cynthia Nixon’s Sex and the City character became a feminist touchstone but her most recent chapter has caused disappointment. What’s behind it?
would no longer recognise herself now. And between her yelping kitchen sex with Che Diaz, her clean dumping of Steve and, just this episode, her own admission that she’s suddenly acting like Meg Ryan, it’s tempting, at first glance, to want to give up on the woman who once proudly termed anything approaching flowery romance as “ick”.How To Be An Anti-Racist
; maybe she was already aware of systemic racism. Then again, maybe not. After all, the only black person Miranda encountered inwas her short-term boyfriend, Dr Robert Lees, a man she fetishised by imagining them both as characters in a British soap opera. But what is it about Miranda that we want her to remain static? Yes, shedding her cynical shell and falling deeply in love with a queer, non-binary person is surprising – even Miranda is surprised. Sure, Che feels a little like a token character and yes, they are deeply unfunny, with a “stand up” consisting mostly of statements rather than jokes.
Let’s not forget that Miranda, like all of us, has also just lived through a pandemic. If she decided to get up and quit her old life, can anyone really blame her?
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