![]() ![]() GLG Tags 30 rock ABC abc family Aliens anne hathaway bachelorette beauty Best of 2011 best of 2012 books class comedy comics commercials Commercials connie britton crime shows CW dystopias fashion female heroines feminism film food friendship gender gender roles Girls hart of dixie HBO hip hop How to Be Awesome Like.Unpacking The Beauty Vlogger Phenomenon.Hit the Books: The Best Feminist Reads of 2014.Grief, Trauma, and Terror: The Babadook.How to be Awesome like Lane Kim (from “Gilmore Girls”).Girls’ Progressive Portrait of Women’s Right to Choose.House of Cards, The Bachelor, and the Villainesses of TV.Secret Histories: Wonder Woman, Feminism, and Uncomfortable Truths.On Lena Dunham and Modern Jewish American Identity.Breaking Down ‘The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’.Mazel Tov, Cindy: On Orange Is the New Black’s New Jewish Convert.The Dark Catharsis of Lifetime’s “Unreal”.Separate Stories: Reviews of ‘Spinster’ & ‘Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed’.Captain Marvel, Judith, and the Power of Two.Where are the dramas centered around African American or Latina or Asian or even Jewish women? And why can’t these women have relationships with men and/or women? What if a woman smashed through that TV glass ceiling while wearing sneakers? I mean seriously do they think their viewers would all just stop watching? I’m just us on Twitter: find us on Facebook: GLG Facebook Page ![]() However, the racial stuff is still there and she is after all paired with a very manly man (and now they’re going to have a baby?!). I love Bones and its quirky humor and at least Brennan (aka Bones) knows self-defense and carries a gun I suppose. So I guess my point is that I’m sad about these realizations. It seems these shows are reminding us that as women we can only still have it one way or the other (ie love or career), however, if we choose a career at least we’ll be able to buy ourselves great shoes. So hot.) on Bones or Megan Hunt (Dana Delaney) and Peter (Nicholas Bishop) on Body of Proof. For example, Bones and Booth (David Boreanaz. But they still need male partners to protect them and regulate their independence. Third, almost all these white women are straight and absolutely incapable of being in relationships. It seems worth mentioning here, that Ravera is also part Puerto Rican but as Daniels she plays and is coded as African American.ĭr. Although there are quite a few African American women on these shows, they are often side characters for example, Cam, the head of the forensic team at the Jeffersonian on Bones (Tamara Taylor) is African American Sonja Sohn from The Wire (2002-2008) is now a detective on Body of Proof and Lieutenant Daniels (Gina Ravera) used to be the only other woman, and the only African American woman, in the Priority Homicide unit on The Closer. However, before we get too excited a few crucial observations …įirst, all these women are white. At once, the presence of strong female characters over the age of 25 on television is exciting and perhaps promising. To name just a few: Brennan (Emily Deschanel) on Bones (2005-present), Deputy Chief Brenda Lee Johnson (Kyra Sedgwick) on The Closer (2005-present), Detective Sarah Linden (Mireille Enos) on The Killing (2011-present), the badass female duo of Jane Rizzoli and Sasha Isles (Angie Harmon and Sasha Alexander) on Rizzoli and Isles (2010-present), and Dana Delaney as a brilliant former neurosurgeon turned medical examiner on Body of Proof (2011-present). And in a new turn of events, a lot of the recent crime shows feature an extra smart female detective type. I am a murder mystery and crime television junkie, and lucky for me every other show on television fits this bill. ![]()
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