In season 2 of Sex and the City, Miranda – one of the main characters having sex in the city – gets asked out in an elevator. The man who asks her out is a recently divorced dad with an annoying son. Things end poorly. But the episode made Shanae, a 23-year-old Californian and part of the gen Z wave repopularizing the show, feel envious.
“I wished I lived in New York during that time,” she told me later. Specifically, when people asked each other out in person. “I guess people just didn’t have social media, so if you saw someone you thought was attractive, you just had to say something,” she says.
