The Rise Of The TV Woman

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Once upon a time, television women were bound by the societal expectations of what women were supposed to be: prim, proper, and most of all, domestic. Audiences had to turn to the big screen in order to see slight variations on that. This became the norm for years to come. Certainly, as societal boundaries placed on women began to dissolve, so did

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[crazyumbrellas]

Honestly, all these amazing female characters in television is why I highly prefer t.v. to movies.

[hola_meg_a_cola]

Mfe.

[crazyumbrellas]

Heey. How is studying going?

[keeni84]

Rise of the White TV woman, they mean.

That means that a story about the wife of a football coach who’s also a guidance counselor at an in-need public school starring a fairly unknown but incredibly talented actress (Friday Night Lights) is much less likely to be made into a movie than it is a TV series unless it stars Hillary Swank and that school is in a black neighborhood.

Yeah, okay.

[apis_cerana]

Yes.

[must_go_faster]

You know what this article needs? More jabs at Heigl, definitely not enough of those here. And I like how the writer seems to differentiate between good, layered roles for good~ actresses and bad, sexist roles for lesser~ actresses and makes no mention of, what are they called...men, who write most of the roles. It's "Hollywood" or "sexism" and almost everything is written in a passive form, anything is used just to not have to mention men.

[riotlounge]

I know bitch can be reclaimed, but if you use it positively earlier in the article, don't use it to slam another woman 2 lines further in. :/

[paintmeamovie]

All of this. "The writers" "the industry" blah blah blah. Theres no need to bash certain actresses over others, especially for what roles they are casted for....

[azetburcaptain]

iawtc

[3dog]

Betty Suarez is my hero. <3

[cho_malfoy]

Women are grossly underrepresented as writers, directors, and producers. Go ahead. Name another executive producer that isn’t Shonda Rhimes.

Sera Gamble's executive producer and showrunner on Supernatural. Lost Girl also has a female executive producer and showrunner. Other shows like Mad Men and True Blood have female producers in large roles. That doesn't make the point less valid, of course - the vast majority of TV is produced by white males - but media tends to ignore the women that are out there.

[meleth]

Emily Deschanel on Bones (co-producer with David Boreanaz). Kyra Sedgwick on The Closer. Other women, I'm sure, on other shows that I don't watch, or the credits of which I've never paid attention to.

[meleth]

Oh, and Tina Fey.

[azetburcaptain]

And the writer for Being Erica is a woman. IDR if the producer is a woman, though.