Sex and the City

Carrie is constantly struggling with her relationship with Big in the series Sex and the City. It seems as if Big is always in control of the situations. In a recent re-run that I saw Carrie was trying to avoid Big entirely, because she was in a relationship and did not want to mess things up with her new boyfriend. Big continually called Carrie and was portrayed as very pathetic. However, whenever Carrie calls Big and wants to spend time with her we accept it, because society leads us to believe that the women should completely put themselves out there for the guys, but the guy is never supposed to make himself completely emotionally available unless he wants to be viewed as less of a man. This is a complete double standard. The men and women should be seen as equals in every relationship. The women should not have to put themself out there for the men when the men are not doing the same.