Don't show me this message again✕ (Shutterstock) T hink of the stereotypical single woman, and no doubt Bridget Jones springs to mind. Perhaps you remember her in matching flannel pyjamas, lip-syncing to Jamie O’Neal’s “All By Myself” next to an empty bottle of wine and a plate of cigarette butts. Or maybe you recall her wincing in embarrassment as Daniel Cleaver discovers her “absolutely enormous” knickers. Bridget Jones’s Diary, might have been published a quarter of a century ago in 1996 – followed by Richard Curtis’s film adaptation five years later – but much of what it said about how society views single women, intentionally and otherwise, still resonates with women today: a