Because sometimes only Doral will do...

[lizardbeth]

I'm still highly irritated by a blog I read, full of the most ridiculous poorly-thought-out mishmash of faux-feminist b.s. I've read in a long time. This is a blog that wants to cancel "Fairly Legal" unaired, on the basis of only one promo, because Sarah Shahi is too beautiful to be a lawyer and therefore little girls won't want to become lawyers because they can't measure up.

I just.

I've been annoyed by this thing for TWO DAYS. I restrained myself from engaging (okay, that was more because I didn't know where to START than any innate nobility on my part), but GOOD LORD. Like this is the first t.v. show to have an attractive lead actress. She's not even the first attractive actress to be a lawyer, and somehow the profession has managed to thrive for women. I desperately wanted to ask if this blogger is also actively petitioning for the cancellation of "The Good Wife", since I'm sure Julianna Margulies is also a bad influence, being so pretty and all. Or y'know, Mariska Hargitay for police detectives. I would bet a million dollars in the real world, where people actually LIVE, Olivia Benson has inspired more girls to become police officers than were ASHAMED because they're not as beautiful as Mariska.

And that was only the start of the stupidity on display. Seriously, if we had to remove all t.v. shows with unrealistic portrayals of their profession, would we have any left? Heck, I'm kind of excited since I think FL might be closer to what an ADA actually does since the early days of L&O (okay, they might really screw it up, too, and I will have words about it, if they do. But at least they look like they're trying more than your average medical drama). Which of course, this person doesn't know, because she didn't bother to look for more evidence to support her conclusion.

(and she's a law student! supposedly. Which means she got through college! gods.)

Comments

[lizardbeth-j.livejournal.com]

yeah, it's like think about what you're saying people! But I guess to them Sarah Shahi should be, like, doing dishes and look dowdy. And not doing a profession she obviously enjoys. morons.

[laetificat.livejournal.com]

It just goes to show that no matter how progressive society gets women will always be judged on their looks -- even by people who should know better.

Sigh.