<P> Criticism has been expressed about the influence the show has on adolescents and how the images displayed on the show affect the way women and young girls view themselves . Unplanned pregnancy was a topic during episode "The Baby Shower" (1.10) when Carrie found herself in a potential unplanned pregnancy situation with Mr. Big (it was a false alarm). In the episode "Coulda Woulda Shoulda" (4.11), Miranda did find herself dealing with an unplanned pregnancy and potential abortion . Miranda opted against the abortion and throughout season 5 and 6, we saw how Miranda dealt with raising a child as a single mother . There were also two episodes that dealt with sexually transmitted diseases . In the episode "Are we Sluts" (3.06), Miranda had to deal with a case of chlamydia along with contacting her former lovers so they could also be tested . In "Running with Scissors" (3.11), Samantha faced having an HIV test after a partner refused to have sex with her until she gets tested . </P> <P> Tanya Gold of The Daily Telegraph stated, "Sex and the City is to feminism what sugar is to dental care . The first clue is in the opening credits of the television show . Carrie is standing in a New York street in a ballet skirt, the sort that toddlers wear . She is dressed, unmistakably, as a child . And, because she is sex columnist on a newspaper, a bus wearing a huge photo of her in a tiny dress trundles past .' Carrie Bradshaw knows good sex,' says the bus . And there, before any dialogue hits your ears, you have the two woeful female archetypes that Sex and the City loves--woman as sex object and woman as child...In another (episode), Carrie realizes she is homeless because she has spent $40,000 on shoes and does not have a deposit for an apartment . (In this crisis, she cries and borrows the money for the deposit--what child would do anything else?)." </P> <P> Joan Swirsky, a New York--based journalist and author, wrote in 2003: "Another example that feminism is dead is the popularity of Sex and the City, the HBO show that features 30 - and 40 - something women sending out the unmistakable messages to females both younger and older that careers, money, looks and, ostensibly, intelligence are nothing compared to doing anything to get a man, including endlessly obsessing about the subject, engaging in loveless or even like-less sexual encounters ." </P> <P> Academic critics of the series, however, disagree on whether Sex and the City was truly anti-feminist, feminist, or post-feminist . Some argue whatever label is applied to the show, it offered an important contribution "to ongoing dialogue" and that because it "shows women in a world where they can be feminine, attractive, and feminist at the same time...the series gives a forum to a renewed postfeminist debate ." </P>

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