Are you a Carrie, a Miranda, a Samantha or a Charlotte?”
Circa 2002, this question was as ubiquitous as asking someone their star sign – the ultimate shortcut to defining what kind of woman you were (there being only four known “genres” of women at the time). For millennials, the answer said as much about you as your Hogwarts house or whether you preferred Ryan or Seth from The OC (Ravenclaw and Seth, in case you were wondering).