The grapevine tells me that some think Candace Bushnell should not be described as a “progressive female” since she is an active Republican (and I can see from the old rudimentary Google search that she gave a grand to the Al D’Amato campaign in 1998). Clearly, you can be quite liberal and still be Republican. (Ask Arlen Specter.) But I meant she is certainly surfing on top of the wave of the sexually progressive/sleazy. I also meant to mock the Manolo materialism of her milieu.