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Sitcoms are the Golden Land of Feminist TV Characters

Women Aren't Funny post by Gabrielle Moss on May 13, 2013 - 10:31am; tagged 30 Rock, Maude, New Girl, Parks and Recreation, sex and the city.

"Married...with Children"'s Marcy D'Arcy in a feminist t-shirt

Pop culture made me a feminist. As a suburban girl in the early 90s, I picked up my beliefs about equality from some books at the library and a copy of Cyndi Lauper’s “She’s So Unusal.” After no one at my elementary school opted to join my "Gender Equality Club," I looked back to pop culture to find others of my kind—and I found the most feminists were on network TV.

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What All Those ‘Girls’ on TV Teach Us About Aging

Women of a Certain Age post by Jennifer Keishi... on March 15, 2013 - 5:01pm; tagged 2 Broke Girls, Lena Dunham, New Girl, The Mindy Project.

If you want to know why we see so few fully realized female characters over 50 on TV, look no further than the shows about women under 35.

We don’t need characters over 50 to help us work out our aging anxieties! Our 20- and 30-somethings on Girls, 2 Broke Girls, New Girl, and The Mindy Project have it covered, thanks.

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