“Not only is it a program about women, but one about women who like each other. They identify as each other’s soul mates and provide emotional, practical and moral support. They don’t compete with each other for male attention. They make each other laugh. It is probably the best depiction of the genuine nature and importance of female friendship ever to win an Emmy.

And so while it is probably about as much use as Beano as a manual for life, you can be a feminist and like Sex and the City. Not least because if you’re about to start letting political doctrine arbitrarily dictate which bits of the culture you respond to you may as well give up now and submit to the patriarchy. But mainly because the program is funny and clever and it thinks women are important.”