It’s impossible to open your social feed (or at least my own) these days without seeing Carrie, Charlotte, Miranda, Stanford or even Natasha filming “And Just Like That” on the streets of New York City.

Which means we can’t open our social feeds without being reminded of “Sex and the City,” and of some of the foundational “lessons” we learned from the show. Among those was the power of women’s friendships and of having each others’ backs. We’re all for that here at Ellevest.

The show was undoubtedly groundbreaking in many ways — as one New Yorker writer put it, “to me, as a single woman, it felt like a definite sign of progress: since the elemental representation of single life at the time was the comic strip “Cathy” (ack! chocolate!), better that one’s life should be viewed as glamorously threatening than as sad and lonely.”

But the series (and the films) feel rather dated today.

Which is a good thing, because women+ have made hard-won progress since the 90s. And not “just like that.” In 2021 it’s all but obvious: Big was a horrible boyfriend (and fiancé and person), the lack of diversity on the show is jarring, the pervasive materialism directed at women feels exasperating, and the series gets women and money so. very. wrong.