In entertainment news, the Austin Chronicle's TV critic has a column this week on the A&E reality show "Rollergirls." I have to say, I pretty much agree with her assessment. Particularly her take on the "regurgitation of tired male fantasies" and:
"The 'we can be tough and sexy' mantra is about as tired as a pair of fishnets after Mardi Gras. I was going to say that you would think in this day and age that a woman wouldn't have to care how sexy she is, but that's not true. Ask former Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers. I don't remember anyone lobbing salvos at former FEMA Director Michael Brown's dowdiness when it was revealed how freakishly underqualified he was for his job."
Also this week, the episode of Commander in Chief ended with the president (Geena Davis) confiding to her mother that she got a huge rush off the fact that she was the most powerful person in the world (this was after narrowly averting a war with North Korea while rescuing stranded sailors in a submarine). I appreciated that the writers of the show portrayed a woman unapologetically appreciating the rush of presidential power rather than being all demure and "relational" about it. On this show, sometimes she doesn't see her kids for two days even though they're in the same house, and yeah she feels bad but no worse than a dude president would. So far the writers are showing her being a president, not a "woman president." Let's hope it stays that way. Apparently the ratings are falling, so who knows - she may soon be seen in the white house kitchen baking cookies.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment