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Oct. 25th, 2006 01:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sereneGoing to bed in a minute, but wanted to get this down before I forget:
I should say right up front that I like Studio 60, and liked tonight's episode a lot.
Still.
These guys used to piss me off on The West Wing when they created female characters who were WAY too dumb, especially women who behaved inappropriately in professional situations. Ainsley Hayes dancing around her office in the West Wing in her bathrobe? Hel-LO?
They're still doing it.
Tonight was a really egregious example of this, if you ask me. From the three women -- women *actresses* -- who were too stupid to know what a WRITER does? Um, what? to the NETWORK PRESIDENT who goes around from lackey to lackey begging them to be her friend. It was really cringingly bad.
This is not to say there aren't good female characters on the shows, both of them. Hell, Ainsley was a good character. But must we have C.J. Cregg do a pratfall on her treadmill over some guy? Must we?
I should say right up front that I like Studio 60, and liked tonight's episode a lot.
Still.
These guys used to piss me off on The West Wing when they created female characters who were WAY too dumb, especially women who behaved inappropriately in professional situations. Ainsley Hayes dancing around her office in the West Wing in her bathrobe? Hel-LO?
They're still doing it.
Tonight was a really egregious example of this, if you ask me. From the three women -- women *actresses* -- who were too stupid to know what a WRITER does? Um, what? to the NETWORK PRESIDENT who goes around from lackey to lackey begging them to be her friend. It was really cringingly bad.
This is not to say there aren't good female characters on the shows, both of them. Hell, Ainsley was a good character. But must we have C.J. Cregg do a pratfall on her treadmill over some guy? Must we?