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I didn’t want to have to make this post. It’s the sort of thing that your close friends know, but that you really don’t feel like telling the internet. But this is a Blog War, and it was such an interesting phenomenon that my hand has been forced.

I saw the Sex and the City movie tonight. And I was excited for it.

It all started when we had HBO on demand. Elizabeth would watch it while I played my Gameboy (it was a while ago). First I would laugh at Samantha while playing. Then I’d look up every once in a while. Next thing you know I’m scouring eBay and we own every season. So, when Elizabeth insisted on seeing the movie on opening night I couldn’t exactly complain.

As for the movie itself, I’ll say that I liked it. If you didn’t like the show you can skip it, but if you did… it’s Sex and the City. What really surprised me was the ambiance.

The theatre was pretty packed, and I spotted three other guys. Three. Women came with others… they were just other women. As we got up to leave, I was amazed at the homogeneity of the audience. A sea of white women, mostly it their twenties but a few a little older. You don’t notice slight differences in a group until there aren’t any, and then it’s disconcerting.

There was also some sort of hive mind during the movie. The women, as a group, would laugh, clap and sigh. It wasn’t annoying like crowd noise is during a movie: it seemed to fit. At one point a Louis Vuitton box is presented as a gift and I swear three fourths of the women gasped.

This isn’t meant to be an ‘I didn’t belong here’ post, although I didn’t. The setting was something I had never experienced before, and probably never will again. I doubt it would be the same on any other day: the hardcore faithful turned up to see what happens next.

I guess I’m one of them.

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