Hindustan Times
Do people still read Archie comics? They were certainly very popular when I was young and entire generations of middle-class Indians grew up believing that the US was stuck in a late 1950s time warp where cheery local restaurateurs ran hamburger and milkshake joints, where college kids wore jerseys with initials on them, and nobody had sex at university.
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Loading ...Posted by Vir Sanghvi on Friday, July 25, 2008 at 12:01 am
Filed under Uncategorized · Tagged Archie, Comics, Joh Jeeta Wahi Sikandar, Sex and City
Sex and the City became a metaphor for the emancipation of urban, Western women
I wrote, a few weeks ago, about one difference between the sexes in this age of androgyny and gender equality: the attitude to hairdressers. Now, I think I’ve found another one: Sex and the City. We’ve always divided popular culture into gender-based categories. Superman, Batman and Terminator are boys’ movies. Weepy films and such TV soap operas as The Bold and the Beautiful appeal mainly to women.
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(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Posted by Vir Sanghvi on Thursday, June 19, 2008 at 11:54 am
Filed under Uncategorized · Tagged Manolo Blahnik, Sex and City, The bold and beautiful
