Not so Modern Family: Top sitcoms make for sexist, inaccurate television

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18. That article is all over the place.....

It keeps making exceptions to it's own demands.

It mentions in the first sentence "the unemployment rate" for women. But then when most of the examples it wants to use have working women in them, it dismisses the jobs (so because she's a shopaholic, being a nursery school teacher isn't a job?). I'm also not sure how Robin is a "failed journalist" on the show as she was a news anchor on the shows I saw (haven't in a while).

And the mother on 2 and a half men is an extremely wealthy, successful businesswoman. Oh but she doesn't count because she's also a manipulative mother.

And oh, yes on 30 Rock Liz Lemon is a successful working woman and TV executive. But she's undatable (you know, except for all the boyfriends on the show including John Hamm) so that doesn't count!!!!

I also didn't notice any reference to Christina Applegate on that Up All Night show who is a successful TV produce and her husband is a stay at home dad.

Or Whitney (which is a horrible show but I happen to have seen it) in which I believe she has her own business.

Or Happy Endings (on right after Modern Family) which has 3 successfully employed and actively dating or married women on it.

Or that Mike and Molly show (I believe she's also a teacher and shown as no more or less successful than her cop boyfriend).

Or Parks and Recreation which has a strong female lead.

Or the office which has and has had several successful female characters.

Also isn't the character of the girl who played Blossom who is on the Big Bang Theory some kind of scientist? Or is she the undatable one she's referring to? Does she mean undatable in the same what that the other male characters are?

Yeah, there's more dysfunction and under employment than maybe back in the days of the sitcoms she mentioned. But that's also the way life in general has changed. Unfortunately when it comes to working and the economy and employment we're all moving backwards.

But starting with a premise for an article, not looking at the whole picture, and then just picking and choosing aspects of the characters that the author is purporting to analyze is just shoddy writing.

Editing to also add that the article also doesn't address the fact that there are just in general fewer sitcoms on the air any more and more reality shows. So comparing the numbers now to the "good old days" is not accurate either.

I'd be more interested in seeing a study of all tv shows.