WHEN YOU FIRST watched Sex and the City, the last character you probably identified with was Miranda.
Errrr…no comment.
And when you did a ‘Which character on SATC are you?’ quiz , you most likely shut your eyes, squeezed your thighs together and quietly murmured ‘Not Miranda‘ to yourself, just like Harry Potter whispered ‘Not Slytherin‘ to The Sorting Hat.
‘Cus online personality quizzes are legit and approved around the world by psychologists, everyone knows that!
However, on re-watching the series as an adult who’s *trying* to get your sh*t together, you might find that you have a new found appreciation for the straight-talking, self-confident, Harvard-educated Lawyer that is Miranda Hobbes.
She balanced being a high powered partner in a law firm AND being a single mum, whilst always making time for her (sometimes very needy/self-obsessed) friends who’s lives were really not as complicated as hers. Pretty impressive!
So here’s 21 essential life lessons that Miranda can teach us all about being a modern Irish woman.
1. Miranda will teach you how to react when your Mam fixes up your room before your granny comes to stay
2. Got problems getting over someone that dumped you? Miranda gives you no bullshit
3. As a Civil Rights lawyer, Miranda was always fighting for equality and you should too
4. She’s not afraid to let her best friend know when she’s hit rock bottom
5 .Miranda is there to reassure you that dating was a load of shite even before Tinder and Bumble
6. Was this a line in Destiny Child’s ‘Independent Woman’? Cause it should be! Own it, girl!
7. Miranda knew how to shame anyone who thought she was missing out cause she didn’t have a ring on it
8. She knows her limits: so when everyone is saying how “amaaaaazing” Electric Picnic is, but by Sunday – when you’re on a two-day gin hangover, you miss toilet paper and don’t like drip-drying yourself in the Portaloos – be like Miranda and don’t be afraid to call you Da to come get you
9. Miranda teaches you how to react with love and real talk to your best friend when she’s obsessed with dating absolute donkeys and you’re sick of hearing about it.
*seriously, Carrie, do you see the bags under Miranda’s eyes. She’s been up all night keeping a human baby alive whilst you’ve been arranging fake business meetings with your boyfriend’s ex-wife. WTF!
10. She can give you better contraceptive advice than any secondary school sex talk
11. She could throw serious *shade* at her friend’s vapid taste in men
12. But she can show you how to be diplomatic when your friend says she’s going to name her daughter ‘Caoimhseach’ and asks what you think
13. And she knows when she needs to call out her friends when they need to wise TF up ASAP
14. Being friends with your ex? Miranda ain’t got time for that and neither should you
15. But if you wanted your ex back, Miranda would tell you to be honest with yourself and go for it
16. She articulated the key frustration of dating men who use porn, not for entertainment, but for educational purposes
17. When your friend complains about someone at work who you’ve never met, this is what to say
18. When your family asks why you don’t move home to Louth if rent is so expensive in Dublin
19. And importantly, Miranda was the only character who is seen to have a healthy relationship with her body: she goes to the gym to stay fit…
20. …and has a normal relationship with food
Ehh…OK, maybe her relationship with food wasn’t always totally normal
21. But she was always there for her friends. And for that, we hope our next personality quiz says that we’re a Miranda
