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Originally Posted by Tati
^ Indeed. It's fiction, not an after-school special. It's not its job to teach anyone values.
I find it really odd that some people seem to hold certain shows up as exemplars of values and role models, while others get a free pass to be just what they are, which is fiction. Nobody expects The Sopranos, MASH, Cheers, Frasier, Dexter, The X-Files, Star Trek, Seinfeld - or pretty much any show with a male-dominated or mixed cast - to teach values to their viewers. But take a show with no laugh track that happens to focus on female characters, and suddenly its charged with the burden of providing positive female role models to the viewing audience. I'd really like to know why that is.
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Duh, because women are defined first and foremost by the gender. It doesn't matter what a character's backstory, personality or plot purpose is, what we should look at is how they measure up to society's feminity ideal. Much like black characters are only allowed to be black and gay characters are only allowed to be gay!
