Last week, conservative political commentator Meghan McCain wrote an article for the Daily Mail about one of the more pressing issues of our time, the one-off appearance of Samantha, played by Kim Cattrall, in HBO's reboot of "Sex and the City." Now, there is nothing wrong with people who usually spend their time gazing into the fiery abyss of our political landscape deciding to tackle lighter material, but unfortunately that's not what this piece was. The first sentence of the headline of her article is, "I couldn't bear to watch the woke-fest Sex And The City reboot ruin the show I loved…"
If you have a somewhat healthy relationship with your family and social media you may be asking yourself, what exactly is a woke-fest and how exactly is it affecting McCain's viewing experience? The answer to that question, I believe, is summed up in this quote from her piece: "This was a global-hit show that used to revel in its rebelliousness – always most apparent in Samantha, who dropped the F-word every other sentence, called women 'b**ches' and memorably once remarked: 'I'm a try-sexual. I'll try anything once.'" If what you take from those sentences is that the problem is that McCain is having a hard time connecting to the show because of its lack of slurs and casual misogyny, then we are on the same page. McCain goes on to complain about the inclusion of some LGBTQ characters, and it's at this point that things begin to click about what her actual problem is. Still, how does any of this equate to a so-called woke-fest?
