That's right, folks: And Just Like That... is back for Season 2. And probably like every Sex and the City fan out there, I recently went back and rewatched ALL. OF. IT. — the reboot, the original series, and the movies. And boy oh boy, was it a journey.
As I was rewatching, I couldn't help but cringe at all of their truly problematic moments. Like...I truly can't believe these scenes made the final cut. They also didn't learn too much from their past mistakes once AJLT... dropped in 2021. Season 1 unfortunately had many forced moments that tried to make up for SATC's awful past.
This inspired me to ask the BuzzFeed Community what the most problematic moments are from the Sex and the City universe. So, here are some that are pretty hard to disregard and get over:
Note: Not all submissions are from Community users.
Warning: Some submissions include topics of sexual assault, gay hate, and racism.
1. When Carrie slut-shamed Samantha for giving a blowjob to a man in her office, even after all of the many, many times Samantha unconditionally supported Carrie's horrible decisions when it came to men (like having an affair with Big):
2. When the girls traveled to Abu Dhabi and did extremely culturally insensitive things, like wear niqābs so they could escape a "mob" and get to the airport before being bumped from first class:
3. When Charlotte and Carrie could not (and would not) accept Miranda's sexual journey with Che, and cruelly made her feel guilty about the whole thing:
4. When Lisa asked Miranda for a cup of wine to get through Lily's piano recital, and Anthony called her the "Black Charlotte" instead of her actual name:
5. When Carrie, Miranda, and Charlotte were totally unsupportive when Samantha explored her sexuality and had a relationship with a woman named Maria:
6. When Miranda had a hard time buying an apartment in Manhattan because of a sexist broker, and Charlotte suggested it was her fault because she was an independent woman:
7. When the writing around the choice to make Rock's character genderfluid felt suuuuper forced, leading to a very cringeworthy conversation yielded by Charlotte:
8. When Carrie learned that Barkley, the Soho womanizer, videotaped his sexual experiences with models without their consent, and the show just brushed it off like it was no big deal:
9. When Samantha gained 15 pounds after moving to LA, and Carrie, Miranda, and Charlotte held an intervention where they essentially fat-shamed her:
10. When Samantha broke up with Maria because they talked about their feelings too much, perpetuating an annoying stereotype about woman-loving-woman relationships:
11. When Samantha complained about the Black trans sex workers outside of her apartment building, and called them a derogatory term:
12. When Carrie ditched her boyfriend at the very cool and hip party because she just "couldn't handle" dating a man who identified as bisexual:
13. And when Miranda went apartment hunting in Brooklyn and told Brady they needed to follow the "white guy with a baby" in order to secure a "good home" for themselves:
