Am I the only woman who doesn’t care about Carrie Bradshaw?

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Back in grammar school, the Rage had no interest in being a cheerleader. It looked really exhausting and irrelevant and besides, she could only master a slanted cartwheel. Often, she seemed like the only one who didn’t yearn to put on a polyester pleated miniskirt and shout, ‘Go team!’ Lately, this whole ‘Sex and the City’ tsunami has her feeling the same way.

Am I the only woman who doesn’t care about Carrie Bradshaw?

Around the office, women and men approach and say, ‘Have you seen it yet? ‘You must be so excited for the clothes!’ (Makes sense, as style is my beat.) Still, I shrug and shake my head. ‘Not yet. Not sure when I will see it.’ The response to my utter ambivalence about the Manolos and the cosmos is typically met with suspicion. Their looks seem to say: ‘What woman isn’t dying to see Carrie and the girls again?’ or ‘Are you, like, a dude or what?’

Look, I love fashion for all its foppery and foibles. I also prize my female friendships more than Pinot Noir and cheese plates and puppy dogs. But frankly, I could give a flying Choo about these four women. And somehow, in a bizarre backward step for womankind, they have come to represent gender pride to such a degree that I am questioning my X chromosomes.

The crossover marketing has been relentless: ‘Are you a Miranda or a Samantha, when it comes to your lingerie? ‘ Um, I sometimes fall asleep in my clothes. And shoes. ‘Win a chance to nab Carrie Bradshaw’s wardrobe!’ My closet is too disorganized for all those shoes and dresses. ‘Should Big marry Carrie?’ Only if he doesn’t mind sharing a bed with Matthew Broderick. Oh, and I loathe martinis polluted with fruit juice. Give me a straight up, extra-dirty vodka marti or an empty glass.

Newspapers and the blogosphere have been drawing lines between the sexes with this movie too. One online headline read: ‘Sex and the City: Why women love it and men love to hate it.’ Guess what? This woman doesn’t love it or hate it or even think twice about it.

Anyone else feeling ostracized for her anti-Carrie stance? Care to join me in a slanted cartwheel?