Sex in the City of Abu Dabhi

The glitz and glam of the New Yorkers gals are back in “Sex and the City 2: The Sand of Time.” The sensational TV series is back on the big screen, and this time viewers are up for a thrill when the gals take a sojourn to the Oriental world of the city of Abu Dhabi (fact check: the movie wasn’t actually shot in Abu Dhabi since the government denied the crews’ permission on the ground of a moral issue. Instead the location was in Morocco.) Unfortunately, unlike the first sequence where it premiered with a smashing success on the Box Office; SATC 2 can’t seem to live up to that standard. What’s worse is that many of the critics refused to give the film the full five stars, and it received poor reviews. But the most controversial of it all is that it is marked as anti Muslim flick.

Oh, stylish desperado!

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One of the scenes that stunned the Muslim world, especially Muslim women, is the shot when the gals dinned at the hotel terrace. Carrie who couldn’t help but stared at two Muslim women dressed in niqabs in disbelief. What’s more is that every time the woman eats her fries, she lifts up her veil causing Carrie to utter these words in sympathy: “Wow, a lift for every fry, that’s a serious commitment to fried food.” To the Muslim world, that one phrase signifying that all Muslim women are the oppressed class and they don’t have the voices of their own. But UAE experts have it that women in the UAE received considerable amount of education. Meaning, they can think for themselves all right. Also, the expansion of women roles is prevalent around the nation.

The climax comes in the scene when our sex guru, Samantha, bag dropped to the ground in the middle of the souk disclosing contents from her bag. Among other things there lies her life saving item: condoms. Afterwards, Samantha is surrounded by angry, hairy men yelling vehemently at her not only for possessing the condoms but also for wearing outfits disposing too much skin. Before those men could even realize it, Samantha started waving her rows of condoms defiantly at those men, screaming proudly that she uses them for sex. Now, that my friends is considered by the Muslim world as an insult. That scene signifies that men of the new Middle East can’t bear to accept the Western’s perception of sex, and so they argued that it is not the case.

Views: Dear readers, anti or not anti I can only leave that entirely to your judgment since I have never experienced the new Middle East myself. But as an individual who has spent her life in two strictly Muslim enclosed countries, women oppression is the downright appropriate vocabulary used to describe the roles of women in the Middle East. What women do is considered inferior than men. Their voices are not utterly unheard, it may be heard but later put aside and be neglected. Frankly speaking, the only misrepresentation I can point out is the men’s treatment to Samantha. In reality, just the way I have experienced it, when I wore something so much as a T-shirt which exposed that much of my skin I would be attacked by a-thousand glares from all the guys. Guess what, I even remember this one time when a man was performing his masturbation move in the pool while watching me swim.

What the gals portrayed during their stays were all natural acts of what a foreigner would have displayed. Of course, the gals may be at times ignorant of the culture but it is in this Oriental heaven where the gals gained their brand of enlightenments which they brought to perform at home.

Paris.