Jennifer Horgan: Co-parenting Aidan Shaw is my feminist hero of the year

Sex and the City's Aidan is a hitherto absent cultural reference point for flesh-and-blood men, so rarely represented on screen
Jennifer Horgan: Co-parenting Aidan Shaw is my feminist hero of the year

Aidan Shaw (played by John Corbett) in ‘Sex and the City’ is an active father, a primary caregiver, and a human being with an awareness of familial responsibilities.

And just like that… Sex and the City does it again — very quietly recording the often-ignored fact in our lives that men also parent their children.

All the hype may have buzzed around Samantha’s video call to Carrie this season — but for once, and I say this as a Samantha fan, the glamorous trailblazer deserves less attention than she’s getting.

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