Does it seem to anyone else there’s a disproportionate number of blond white women playing victims and corpses in TV crime shows? This may be partly due to TV’s disproportionate representation of white people in general, but white lead actresses frequently have hair colors other than blond. While I acknowledge I’m not going to sit down with stacks and stacks of DVDs and catalog all [...]
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This time a year ago, Ifritah was pointing out how Sex and the City’s just more of the same “love me, love me!” crap: Every woman I’ve had a meaningful conversation with (and even some shallow ones), outside of high school, there has only been one time I can recall where one told me they were in love first. Every man I’ve had a meaningful [...]
Revena has written several articles profiling the women of Star Trek Deep Space Nine, which I highly recommend. But having just finished the entire series on DVD, I want to chime in and say a little something about the series overall: This is one of the very best series I have ever seen in terms of the portrayal of women. Off the top of my [...]
I wrote a few weeks ago about the brilliant Canadian series that airs on WGN in the US: DaVinci’s Inquest. My post focused on the fact that gender just isn’t an issue in this show. Characters are defined by their jobs, by what they do; rather than by the body they do it in. That said, I suddenly realized the other day that I’d left [...]
I saw my first couple of episodes of DaVinci’s Inquest recently, and something jumped out at me: in those two episodes, you could have switched the gender on any or every character in the show, and the story would have been the same. Gender was irrelevant. I didn’t get the sense the writers were trying to be politically correct, either. Gender is pretty irrelevant in [...]
