It was about consumerism and sex and sex as consumerism.
I think it's the sex *as* consumerism, and the sort of conflating femininity with consumerism, that bothers me the most.
If we're talking "girly" shows, it's Gilmore Girls all the way for me. Or, heck, Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants (the books, not the movies). They both deal with sex, but it's a part of their lives as a whole, and not a single-defining element. Again, I'm probably not being fair to Sex & the City, but I think that is how whoever cooked up this Marvel Superheroines book understands it: a book about women? Lots of sex and talk about shoe-shopping!