The Creator of Sex And The City Decodes Gen Z Dating Slang

I want to say some Gen Z terms and I want to first of all see if you know what they are. Second of all, if they remind you of any stories, just it could be in the book, it could be from any of the shows, it could be from any woman's show or anything. So the first one is like the egg. Oh, it's hot. I know all about the egg and the egg is something that women weren't allowed to get the egg. You weren't. Like years ago when women needed men more, it was like, yes, the egg would happen, but you would just have to keep going. I just don't know about that. You know, getting the egg and being able to say, "Babai is a privilege," which I feel like Charlotte had quite often to bring you to the show. Yes, I know all about the egg. It's interesting. And men can get the egg too, usually after they've had sex with you. They're usually right after, and then they're like, "Uh-huh, never mind that." Exactly. Never mind. Bye-bye. And like a boyfriend of the month energy. That sounds kind of delicious. You like that? Well, I like, you know, first of all, I like the idea of boyfriends, okay. I like boyfriends. You know, I've had a lot of boyfriends, and I realized, you know, the fact of the matter is I'm a serial data. I am. Do you go from serious to serious to serious? I used to, and I used to like live with guys, and you know, and I loved it. It was great. You really get to know somebody, and you travel with them, and you know, like you're a couple. But then it doesn't have to go on forever, which is kind of great, because then you can go on to the next fabulous, interesting, long-quest person. You know, I mean, like when I was younger, I just, I felt like, "Oh, there are just so many interesting men out there," and, you know, and, you know, being, having them as a boyfriend is like, you know, it's interesting. But now I'm like, "You know what a situation ship is?" Yes. That's pretty much what we used to call a relationship, oh, but now it's a situation ship. You know, I guess it's just a lot looser than, but you know, now people are like, "Oh, we be my girlfriend or my boyfriend," but we didn't, I don't remember, like people didn't ask. It just happened, you know, and they would just stop seeing other people, you'd stop seeing other people, and you'd move in together. And what do you think is like the appropriate amount of time to date someone before moving in with them? You know, people used to meet somebody and move in with them. We can meet it, we? Yeah. It was so much, relationships always felt so much less complicated. I think because people didn't have as much taking up their brain space as they used to. I mean, now there's, you know, so many things that are online, you know, there's gaming, there's porn, there's social media, there's just, you know, endless news and articles to read, and you know, that didn't used to exist. So people were pretty focused on each other and, you know, you could meet somebody and say, I fell in love with them and we moved in together. I mean, I do know people that that happened to, but, you know, other people, it was like maybe like three dates, holy crap, have you ever done that three dates? Well, I married my husband after like three months, like you want engaged after three months or you married him after three months. No, we got married. We really weren't, I mean, we, I think we were like engaged for a week. Oh, my God. You like figured it out and then you really, and then we just said, oh, let's get married because he was a principal dancer with New York City Ballet. So he only had a little, he had like fourth of July weekend off. Yeah. I was like, okay, so you got married over fourth of July weekend? We did. We married on fourth of July in 2002, but I was born in 2002, I don't even know to say about that. Okay. Do you know what like soft launching is? You know, I don't, but does it have anything to do with the penis? No. No, it doesn't. It basically means like, so on social media nowadays, like everyone wants to know who you're dating. It's ridiculous because it's like, just because you post your life doesn't mean that you've to share every part of your life. It's like something in your column, just because you choose to write a column. You don't have to put every single story that you've ever experienced in it. And so soft launching nowadays is like soft, oh my God, like how do you describe it? Like you are softly telling the world that you have a boyfriend or a girlfriend or a significant other. Well, it's like they like every single one of your posts, like something like that. And like maybe you tag them and I'm like, yeah, but like they're, it's like they're back of the head is in the photo or there's like you post a picture of like you holding hands with someone, but you don't put their face or like if they have a notable tattoo, you like post with their tattoo, but like not their face. It's kind of like a unspoken like I have a boyfriend, but like you guys don't know who the boyfriend is. Well, one of the things that's interesting to me is like how many of their, they're so all of these little rules around social media, like you know, he liked my photos or he followed me and it's like it means something, but it doesn't, doesn't, I don't know that I, I'm too old for that and I'm grateful. I think there's a popular one where you can like an Instagram story. And a lot of men nowadays use the liking of an Instagram story as a way of flirting with you. And I'm very anti that because you liking my Instagram story does nothing. That doesn't, they expect for like you to DM them afterwards. And I'm like, you liked a private Instagram story. You think I'm going to like take that as you hitting on me question, like that's, I find a very peculiar. Oh, all right. Well, that's sort of interesting because there was this really hot model who was 20 years younger. Like he was liking my stories and he followed me on Instagram and I was like, it doesn't mean out. Wow. I don't know what it means.