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Misandrist?
Hmmmm...well, I can safely say as a guy who takes little to no "feminist" bullshit (I have no trouble with the stuff about equalizing the sexes, etc., which I happen to think is real feminism, but the 'blame-men-for-everything-and-pretend-women-could-do-it-better school I'm definitely not a part of) that the third season didn't strike me as particularly misandrist; just that these women are fundamentally screw-ups, which is actually pretty realistic.
The show itself of course isn't, which I think makes it easier to go down. These characters all have great apartments, which could be believeable in two cases, but Carrie must have made a LOT of money on that column...and Charlotte must sell a HELL of a lot of paintings... Personally, I think the fact that this is a sitcom pretty much removes me from taking any of it remotely seriously or seeing it as political.
Some guys are assholes, in the show as in life, but most of the time it's these women shooting themselves in the foot. At least two of the characters would have had great relationships if it weren't for their personal flaws (or in Carrie's case, some willpower.) The onrunning male characters are generally pretty decent guys who get misused (with the exception of Big.)
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