(BUT DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND, THE MILL WOULD HAVE GONE UP IN FLAMES BECAUSE HE WAS SMOKING, MR THORNTON MEANS SO WELL AND ALSO HE IS HOT SO IT IS OK, I'M SURE IF HE HAD HOMELESS DUDES BOX FOR MONEY IT WOULD BE OUT OF THE GOODNESS OF HIS HEART)
I hate to be the jerk who comments two weeks after the fact, but here I am, hello, allow me to trespass upon your kindness a bit.
I'd go ahead and second the recommendation of The Wire for the above reasons listed, with the caveat that it's not really about women. The Wire is an allegory for America where all the characters are shaded well, even the stone cold killers, but barely mentions sex workers. A part of the show follows children on the cusp of puberty, and it's GREAT, but they're all boys. There is a skeezy, mostly off-screen relationship between a down on her luck informant and the police officer she's working with, that is not shown as being a problem in any sort of way.
I'm having difficulty putting exactly what my difficulties with it into words (story of my life), but I find it disingenuous and even disgusting that a show that is telling the story of America ignores the stories of women in such a way, and isn't bothered by it at all. For a show to discuss race and class in such amazing ways, and even include queer characters, to ignore gender in a fundamental way makes me incensed. I'm thinking of a couple female characters in the main ensemble who are Characters, while a lot of others are Objects.
I NEED A QUESADILLA is a mood I find myself having far too often, btw.
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I hate to be the jerk who comments two weeks after the fact, but here I am, hello, allow me to trespass upon your kindness a bit.
I'd go ahead and second the recommendation of The Wire for the above reasons listed, with the caveat that it's not really about women. The Wire is an allegory for America where all the characters are shaded well, even the stone cold killers, but barely mentions sex workers. A part of the show follows children on the cusp of puberty, and it's GREAT, but they're all boys. There is a skeezy, mostly off-screen relationship between a down on her luck informant and the police officer she's working with, that is not shown as being a problem in any sort of way.
I'm having difficulty putting exactly what my difficulties with it into words (story of my life), but I find it disingenuous and even disgusting that a show that is telling the story of America ignores the stories of women in such a way, and isn't bothered by it at all. For a show to discuss race and class in such amazing ways, and even include queer characters, to ignore gender in a fundamental way makes me incensed. I'm thinking of a couple female characters in the main ensemble who are Characters, while a lot of others are Objects.
I NEED A QUESADILLA is a mood I find myself having far too often, btw.