Carrie Bradshaw is a beloved character in pop culture because of her fashion choices but what most people look past is that she’s also not that great of a friend and here’s why!
Okay, before you guys cancel me for calling ‘The Carrie Bradshaw’ a red flag, let me tell you that she is one of my favourite characters as well. But having said that, it was during one of my annual re-watch of the Sex and the City movies that I realised that the reason why I like Carrie is not only because of the way she carries herself (pun not intended) but also because whether I like it or not, I do resonate to some of her toxic traits. There is no doubt that she is really good when it comes to fashion or writing. We’ve all wanted to recreate her looks or romanticise the idea of writing the way she does. But the more you watch the movies and the six seasons of the show, the more you start seeing beyond just the glamorous clothes and feel that her friends are rather suppressed by her throughout the storyline. I mean, loving yourself is one thing, but it's entirely another when you think the city of New York literally revolves around you!
And here’s mainly why I thought she was a red flag!
It always has to be about her!
When Carrie has a problem, especially if it's a boy's problem, she can go on and on and on about it for days together. But when it is one of her friends, she barely takes the time to listen or help them out in a concrete way. For instance- when Big stood her up at the altar, her friends literally came with her to Mexico to make her feel better but she just forgot how Miranda’s marriage had also fallen apart at the same time.
She is rather mean to her friends!
There have been quite a few times when she has disrespected her friends but one that I remember rather vividly is when in Sex and The City 2 (the movie) she told Charlotte ‘Just because you think your marriage is falling apart, everyone isn’t cheating’ and she snapped at her just because Charlotte stopped her from going a date with Aidan while she was married!
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She’ll hear, judge and give opinions about her friend’s sex life but never spill details about her own
The first rule about girlhood is sharing everything about each other. But Carrie never participates in conversations that need her to share intimate details about her sex life. It’s all okay to never kiss and tell, but it’s not okay to indulge when your friends share it, either. Not to forget, her entire Sex and the City column in the show was based on whatever her friends shared with her!
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She makes her love story with Big look like a fairytale when it really isn’t
After a hundred breakups, being stood up at her wedding, and a thousand things that they disagree on, Carrie still makes it look like she and Big are the absolute endgame in front of her friends. Once, she literally asked Miranda to stop feeling jealous of the penthouse he bought for her in Manhattan while she was asking Carrie to make sure she was being smart in this relationship!
She always brings the drama!
We all have a friend who always brings drama to the group, and Carrie is one hundred per cent that friend out of the four. She constantly goes against the advice her friends give her about her love life and when things don’t go her way, everyone obviously has to drop everything and listen to her rant about it.
Maybe adulthood and good friendships have taught me that no matter how glam and pretty, not everyone needs to have a Carrie around them!
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