TV and my feminist sensibilities

[claudia_writes]

Lately I’ve been feeling that we’ve taken a step back on the issue of TV’s female characters. There were two instances particular which made me think that.

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[claudia_writes]

Oh, yes! The American/Western is the right way-issue I also detested, especially when it involved Booth proclaiming how he was "protecting his country", by killing the citizens of another country thousands of miles away.

"Oh, you heterosexual-alpha-male aren't you so brave and good". It made me literaly sick, because at the same time I was thinking of my granparents who fought tooth and nail in the second world war to keep my country's independecen, and to have something like that compared to American soldier who go to other people's countries to kill their citizense just digusts me.

I don't think that Bones has yet had a gay-issue-episode (which is pretty standard these days), and I would be interested to see that. How the heteronomative world view that Booth is reprisenting reacts to that, especially if it were gay men, which is still of a sore point to American TV.

I didn't really think that Brennan's point of different cultures in the way you pointed out, but you are apsolutely right, they are always made fun about; like they are somehow cute children who don't know any better. Like their presense is somehow threatening and needs to be made safe through juvenile humor.