If you read any amount of social, fashion, or gossip-oriented publications in Pakistan you might have noticed a new trend in the articles, which is namely to compare an outfit, an event, or even a person as “very Sex in the City!” At this point let me say that if I read one more article comparing anything in Pakistan to anything in “Sex and the City”, the extremely popular HBO comedy show starring Sarah Jessica Parker, I’m going to commit murder with the nearest Jimmy Choo shoe. My point exactly: Jimmy Choo shoes are almost as much of a rarity in Pakistan as an honest politician, and therein lies the rub.
      The Sex and the City phenomenon is one that has gripped America and the rest of the world for the past six years. This television show which revolves around the lives, men, and wardrobe choices of four glamorous Manhattan thirty-something women has become well-known in upper class Pakistan in the last year or so, ever since episodes began to be aired on local cable channels and DVD packages started showing up in local stores. All of a sudden everyone decided that their new role model was not Benazir Bhutto or Vaneeza Ahmed but Carrie Bradshaw, the star of Sex and the City, played by a very petite, very blonde and very blue-eyed Sarah Jessica Parker, the polar opposite of most of the dark-eyed, dark-skinned and dark-haired women in the country. But that’s nothing a little hair dye, some contacts, and a session of body bleaching at the parlor won’t fix.
      Suddenly everything has become a race to see who is more Sex and the City than anyone else. Like the stepmother in “Snow White” Next>