Buffy: Really now? Must I establish Buffy's feminist credentials for you?
Xena: Yes, I am sure Xen and Gabby were totes discussing teh boyz on all those cold night snuggled together in their bed rolls...(Incidentally, Xena also had a pretty great portrayal of a transwoman who won the Miss Amphipolis pageant. They won an award for it from...I *wanna* say GLAD, but it may have been from a different Gay/Trans media watchdog).
Firefly: That Joze Whebon guy...I'm beginning to suspect he may be a feminist.
True Blood: It passes most of the time, but even when it doesn't, how can you NOT love a show where even the pretty little blonde heroine kicks ass and has unabashed hot vampire sex, and her best friend is angry, and black, and a woman, and yet NOT defined as just an ABW? Plus-gay sex! Het sex! Bloody sex! Headturn-y sex! And Lafayette.
Skins (the first two seasons, I refuse to watch the others without the characters I love): It's probably the best straight teen show out I've ever seen, in how much it covers, and how well, and how they manage to present so many different voices.
GG: Okay, not the MOST feminist, but they pass sometimes. And the men generally talk about relationships too, so it's pretty even.
The only ones that fail more often are TDS/TCR but those are news shows, and when TDS has its female correspondents on they kill it.
Now if they could just have more Kristen Schall. WHY was Munn added over her? Why couldn't they have at least added KS as a regular first? She's proven herself funny, and she is usually the one to tackle issues with outright feminism. (Incidentally, I've been reading S. Bee's memoir...she and me have very similar ideas about what "playing" with Barbies entailed...)
Buffy: Really now? Must I establish Buffy's feminist credentials for you?
Xena: Yes, I am sure Xen and Gabby were totes discussing teh boyz on all those cold night snuggled together in their bed rolls...(Incidentally, Xena also had a pretty great portrayal of a transwoman who won the Miss Amphipolis pageant. They won an award for it from...I *wanna* say GLAD, but it may have been from a different Gay/Trans media watchdog).
Firefly: That Joze Whebon guy...I'm beginning to suspect he may be a feminist.
True Blood: It passes most of the time, but even when it doesn't, how can you NOT love a show where even the pretty little blonde heroine kicks ass and has unabashed hot vampire sex, and her best friend is angry, and black, and a woman, and yet NOT defined as just an ABW? Plus-gay sex! Het sex! Bloody sex! Headturn-y sex! And Lafayette.
Skins (the first two seasons, I refuse to watch the others without the characters I love): It's probably the best straight teen show out I've ever seen, in how much it covers, and how well, and how they manage to present so many different voices.
GG: Okay, not the MOST feminist, but they pass sometimes. And the men generally talk about relationships too, so it's pretty even.
The only ones that fail more often are TDS/TCR but those are news shows, and when TDS has its female correspondents on they kill it.
Now if they could just have more Kristen Schall. WHY was Munn added over her? Why couldn't they have at least added KS as a regular first? She's proven herself funny, and she is usually the one to tackle issues with outright feminism. (Incidentally, I've been reading S. Bee's memoir...she and me have very similar ideas about what "playing" with Barbies entailed...)