Ramin Setoodeh smirkingly avers in his Newsweek review that “Sex and the City” is “the first tent-pole blockbuster to rest squarely on a female demographic….” He goes on to address the serious issues of sexism in the film industry, but a listen to his language suggests to me that Ramin is part of the problem, not the solution.

The blog “Women and Hollywood” features telling statistics: last year only five of the top 50 films of the year had major roles for women. Only 15 percent of directors, producers, writers and high-ranking staff are female. Fay Ann Lee, the director of “Falling for Grace,” tells the site, “The point here is can women open movies? Meryl Streep can’t. Jodie Foster can’t. Julianne Moore can’t. Julia Roberts can’t.” But Carrie? Yes she can.

Speaking of which, it’s tempting to draw the parallel between the “Sex” haters and the Hillary haters. Ms. Clinton argued that sexism took down her campaign. No way, taunt the Obamaniacs. Fine. But we can all imagine a lunch between Hillary and Carrie, perhaps at a diner somewhere on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. What would they talk about? Were the guys who held up the “Iron My Shirt!” signs for Hillary the same ones who voted Sarah Jessica Parker the unsexiest woman alive? And were they the ones who refused to vote for Hillary at all? Carrie once said, “Man may have discovered fire, but women discovered how to play with it.” And long ago Hillary said, “I’m not some little woman standing by my man, like Tammy Wynette.” She was more like Carrie: too big for that.

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