Was ‘Sex and the City’ anti-Semitic?

Over at the Jewish Daily Forward a journalist named Jenny Singer – who likes talking about her sex life as if she is remotely attractive – (1) has published a piece claiming that the famous drama series of the early 2000s called ‘Sex and the City’ was ‘anti-Semitic’. (2)

I thought it behoved me to respond not because I like the series – although I certainly watched a few episodes in my misspent teenage years – but rather because I like exposing jews for what they are.

Singer writes that:

‘The most prominent Jewish character on “Sex and the City,” a TV show about wealthy New York professional women, appears in the penultimate season of the hit HBO show.

In an episode that appeared in September 2002, lawyer Harry Goldenblatt storms on screen shouting and gesticulating incomprehensibly. He has intruded on a sensitive meeting in search of a bagel. He locates the bagel, schmears it with cream cheese, and shoves it into his mouth, babbling. Then he spits it back into his hand, announcing that he will be lodging a complaint about the bagel.’

So one wonders how this is ‘anti-Semitic’. Jews like bagels and they are very much part of both New York City’s culinary culture and also a source of much humour and comment in the jewish community.

I guess it could be my goyishe kop, but I don’t really see how making fun of the jewish love of bagels and histrionics is ‘anti-Semitic’.

Singer continues by stating that:

‘The next time Harry serves as a plot point, the story focuses on how vigorously he sweats. Next, his animal sexual passion.

After that? His back hair.’

Right… so accusing jews of having back hair is ‘anti-Semitic’ now?

Or has Singer been having sex with too many ‘hook-nosed hotties’ whose backs look like that of chimpanzees?

One does wonder.

She continues as follows:

‘It’s true — the show that launched a thousand self-administered orgasms and was hailed as watershed women’s programming treats Jews about as well as Thomas Aquinas, the 13th century philosopher who wrote that Jews, despite their being criminals, should still be allowed basic necessities.’

Right so where did Saint Thomas Aquinas talk about jewish back hair and bagels in his ‘Summa Theologica’ Jenny? Have you even read anything by Aquinas or are you just throwing out random references to famous goyim so that you can look intelligent?

Singer further states that:

‘“Sex and the City” actually takes anti-Semitism a step farther, implying that Jews are second-class.

Is that a Louboutin too far? As Carrie Bradshaw herself might say, “I couldn’t help but wonder…why would a progressive show about cosmopolitanism depict Jewish characters as hairy, socially-impaired moneybags with big genitals and bigger sweat glands?”’

One would have thought that having big genitals was a compliment, but apparently Singer thinks it is ‘anti-Semitic’ to portray jews as having anything other than micro penises.

Notice how she’s stuck on the back hair and penis issue?

One thinks she doth protest too much (or she has been sleeping with goyim again).

Well Sigmund Freud would have had a field day with her.

She continues by whining that:

‘Charlotte is repulsed by Harry, requesting him as her divorce lawyer because she can’t focus next to the handsome goy lawyer originally assigned to represent her. She finds herself drawn to Harry sexually, even though she is ashamed to be seen with him. Of course Charlotte, the Park Avenue WASP with the bone structure of an angel, ultimately falls deeply in love with Harry in spite of herself. She converts to Judaism, fights for his heart, and marries him. And the show goes on to deliver a shockingly realistic slice-of-diaspora — only after Charlotte converts to Judaism does she realize that her boyfriend is a non-observant Conservative Jew who would rather watch sports than say brachot. But the message that Harry’s physical revulsion, bad etiquette, and sexual appetite are tied to his ethnic Judaism is lasting.’

So, in essence Singer’s argument is that a jew may not be portrayed in anything other than a positive light and as such it means that to portray a jew in any negative way whatsoever is ‘anti-Semitic’.

Good to know.

Singer then writes that

‘This is especially galling because both the unappealing Harry and human-perfection Charlotte are played by Jewish actors: Evan Handler and Kristin Davis.’

So, one wonders why only Singer and not Davis or Handler noticed the ‘anti-Semitism’?

Hmm…

She continues with commentating that:

‘Charlotte meets a few other Jewish men in the series. At a singles mixer during an off-again moment with Harry, she meets a man who is almost as perfect a human specimen as herself. He is Jewish, successful, and handsome. And just before anti-Semitism can be pronounced dead forever, he makes aggressive sexual advances on her.

The next Jew we meet, Harry’s best man at his wedding to Charlotte, is a new model of Jew — an attractive neurotic, like an early iteration of The OC’s Seth Cohen. He, too, reveals himself to have a bottomless appetite for sex and a derision for women’s feelings. Sure, it’s a show about pushing the boundaries of portraying sexual pleasure, but Jewish men on “Sex and the City” are not sexual beings but sex-fiends. This shouldn’t be shocking to those who make it to the fifth season of the show, when Harry’s character is introduced. The show’s treatment of bisexuality, black people, and transgender sex workers, seems knowingly hateful. Time for some Interse(x and the city)ctionality.

Jewish men, according to “Sex and the City,” come in two varieties: revolting-but-endearing, and pervert. If only there was a real-life Jew who could serve as a model for the show’s creators. Some kind of beautiful, intelligent-albeit-flawed Jewish woman who enjoyed sex among other passions, maybe.

Ah, well. Maybe in the next twenty years.’

So in essence jews cannot be ‘aggressive sex fiends’ and to refer to them as such would be ‘anti-Semitic’, but yet the revelations about Harvey Weinstein and Jeffrey Epstein as well as the fact that a clear majority of those accused of being ‘aggressive sex fiends’ by various women – powerful and otherwise – were/are jewish (3) decisively disputes and debunks Singer’s prattling on this score.

So no despite what Jenny Singer wants to believe and loudly proclaim ‘Sex and the City’ wasn’t – and isn’t – ‘anti-Semitic’.

References

(1) https://forward.com/culture/405851/thou-shalt-not-date-a-trump-supporter-and-other-commandments-of-inter-sex/

(2) https://forward.com/schmooze/402575/sex-and-the-city-just-turned-20-its-treatment-of-jews-was-downright/

(3) See my articles: https://karlradl14.substack.com/p/how-many-powerful-people-accused, https://karlradl14.substack.com/p/harvey-weinstein-and-the-rape-of and https://karlradl14.substack.com/p/pedowood-hollywood-and-its-jewish