Sex And The City

'Say what you like about Sex And The City - and I have, the thrust of most of my previous comments being that it was an act of surpassing collective lunacy ever to elevate to the status of feminist icons four women who habitually:

a) turned into a gibbering, prancing, hair-tossing flutterwit whenever she came within 10 feet of her supposed soulmate (corsage fetishist Carrie);

b) turned into a gibbering, prancing, hair-tossing flutterwit whenever she came within 10 feet of any man from the Upper East Side and upper tax bracket (Charlotte, pretty as a picture and dimmer than a trout);

c) scared men away by having short hair (Miranda - a successful lawyer, yet still too stupid to take the morning-after pill);

d) reduced herself to a giant vagina (Samantha - although, to be fair, the writers occasionally gave her breasts as well).

I mean, you may as well have claimed that Ally McBeal was written by Mary Wollstonecraft...'

- Lucy Mangan, Guardian, 24 May 2008