PG: Have you noticed that when people talk about your shows, they love to make the characters stand in for all women — and in the case of “Sex and the City,” for all gay men, too?
AW: It’s strange, because other shows aren’t expected to speak for large groups of people.
PG: We don’t do that to men.
CN: But I think our show was deliberately written that way. There’s Athena, Aphrodite, Hera — and Sarah Jessica. I’m not sure who she is.
AW: Zeus?
CN: I remember one time Sarah Jessica was having this conversation with Jerry Seinfeld, and he matched up the characters on “Seinfeld” with ours. Jerry was Carrie, Kramer was Samantha, I was — what’s Jason Alexander’s character’s name?
PG: George?
CN: Anyway, before, when you were a girl, you were forced to identify with the one girl on the show. But now it’s like, which one of those girls am I? You’re not usually given a sampler plate.
PG: And 10 years and a million reruns later, we get a new show with four girls.
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