The 1998 Golden Globe-winning comedy series Sex And The City was truly groundbreaking for its time and showed storylines that were sometimes complex, often lighthearted, and overall empowering for many different kinds of viewers. Of course, as the series ages, there are some elements of the show that have not withstood the test of time.

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As the characters are interrogated in a 21st-century context, it's apparent that while they often lacked depth, they also had some fundamental differences that could make a long-lasting friendship hard to maintain. Two characters that are hard to believe would be real friends are Miranda and Charlotte.

Personality Types And The City

As with most of the characters of Sex and the City, Charlotte and Miranda are on pretty opposite ends of the spectrum when it comes to their personality traits, approaches to love, career goals, and even communication styles. Charlotte is portrayed as the epitome of a WASP Park Avenue prudish woman, whereas Miranda is the career-oriented straight-talking high powered lawyer who is seen to be more of a modern woman.

Their ideals come to a head many times, in ways that seem so commonplace that the two disagree over appropriate language for breakfast. One can imagine, however, that were this type of communication to continue over many years, the women would likely have more than a few arguments.

Soulmates And The City

Charlotte is a consistent character in her search for love. She is always looking for Mr. Right, but of a certain pedigree. Her views of love and romance, while quite naive at times are also usually quite touching.

Most often, Miranda is in direct disagreement with Charlotte's ideals surrounding love and marriage. For example, in "Anchors Away" Charlotte proposes her theory that you only get two big loves in your life, and Miranda instantly disagrees. While this is a small example, the two engage in very different behavior when it comes to the men in their lives.

Motherhood And The City

Charlotte's quest for motherhood begins in the fourth season shortly after she and Trey get married. During this time she battles with Tre's erectile issues, problems in her marriage, her dreaded in-laws, and fertility issues as well. Miranda gets pregnant with Steve by accident after finding out she has a bum ovary and after Steve has been treated for testicular cancer.

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While it isn't out of Miranda's character to poke fun at the expectations of motherhood as it was thrust upon her, Charlotte is quite offended by her supposed ambivalence to the whole affair.

Flirting And The City

Though the two women are single gals at the start of the show, they have very different approaches when it comes to their dating styles. Charlotte is a bit more traditional, expects men to perform the actions of the prince charming archetype, and at times struggles to express what she really wants in her relationships, both sexually and otherwise.

Miranda, on the other hand, is frequently direct, to the point, and sometimes dismissive of her partners by her friend's standards. The contrast between the two, while interesting could prove to be frustrating. To see one's friend stuck in the same relationship patterns is often a source of concern in longstanding female friendships.

Career Women And The City

Miranda is a very goal-oriented person who graduated from Harvard Law and works hard to get where she wants in terms of her career. While it can be assumed that Charlotte comes from money, she works in the early seasons as an art dealer and then decides to quit her job in order to focus on her marriage and starting a family.

While the argument for domesticity isn't originated by Miranda, the two have an argument about the expectation of women in Anchor's Away, which leads to Miranda throwing her neck out in the shower. It's safe to say that both women are firm in their beliefs, and in this instance, they really seem to disagree.

Sensitivity And The City

Charlotte is a woman who typically sticks to her morals, although she does at times stray and even evolves in some of her beliefs. At times, she can seem overly sensitive or prudish to the other characters, especially when it comes to sex. When she does wander into territory that could garner a bit of extra care, there are times where it's treated only as a punchline to the group of friends. For example, in "The Real Me," Charlotte visits a gynecologist because of some symptoms she's having and when she describes the visit to Carrie and Miranda, the two rattle off jokes about her "depressed vagina."

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Yes, Charlotte does laugh in the end, but to come to your friends with a previously unknown health concern to have it mocked isn't a very supportive situation.

Owning Real Estate And The City

In "Four Women and a Funeral," Miranda sets out to buy her own apartment. After enduring more than a few snide remarks from her real estate agent and her mortgage officer, she then has to hear the same sentiments echoed by her friend Charlotte. Charlotte believes that a woman who is too self-sufficient won't be found attractive by men because the power structure is off. That's why she prefers to rent.

Later on in the series, she receives a Park Avenue apartment as a settlement in her divorce from Trey. Both women, in the end, have nice real estate but have gotten them through different means.

Parenting And The City

Charlotte and Miranda are the only two of the four friends who have children during the span of the series. While Miranda has an unlikely ending in the second Sex and the City movie when she decides to give up her career to stay at home with Brady and Steve, during the series she was committed to working and being a mom.

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Charlotte on the other hand dreams of finding a wealthy spouse and quitting her job to start a family, which is what she does with Trey and then later with Harry.

Big Advice And the City

Their best friend Carrie and her on-again-off-again relationship with Mr. Big was a long story arc in Sex and the City. Over the six seasons, all of the women had to do damage control for their relationship and had to give varying types of advice to Carrie. Miranda is staunchly against her relationship with Big, and expresses so much in a thrift shop fight with Carrie. Charlotte, on the other hand, is the forever romantic who still somehow believes in their love up until the sixth season.

In "American Girl In Paris Part Une," it is Charlotte who reaches out to Big to try and help rekindle his and Carrie's relationship when she overhears him leaving a message at Carrie's apartment. Frankly, it's hard to believe this wouldn't drive a wedge in Miranda and Charlotte's friendship.

Feminism And The City

Miranda Charlotte

Of the four women, these two women are on quite opposite spectrums when it comes to the expectations of their lives and how they find fulfillment. While Miranda seems quite happy to find fulfillment in her career first, and then in a partner when there is room, Charlotte is quite the opposite and begins her husband-finding quest from nearly the beginning of the series.

Charlotte is known to have said some very cringe-worthy things about women and their partners throughout the series, but she also said one of the biggest gems overall about female friendships. That the women were each others' soulmates and the men they dated were really great guys.

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