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

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22. I did miss that reference to Up All Night. Sorry....

But then that's another example of the picking and choosing. That's not a top sitcom either and far from it . So if they're going to look outside the top 5 for good examples, then there are plenty of others out there, including but not limited to all the examples I gave.

Again, 30 Rock, The Office, Parks and Recreation, Whitney, Mike and Molly, New Girl, How I Met Your Mother, Happy Endings and The Big Bang Theory and others all have strong, dating or married women who have successful careers of varying financial reward.

The fact is more that the most succesful shows in general are just usually pretty bad because most Americans have pretty bad taste. I'd chalk any of their complaints up to just bad, overly broad writing.

Also, on most of the shows they use the men are just as horrible at relationships and also not always successful at their jobs either. As I mentioned in my one edit they call the Liz Lemon character "undatable", when the fact is that she's almost always had a variety of attractive and sometimes succesful boyfriends on that show. So how exactly is that "undatable"?

But again, even on the shows they use as examples their thesis doesn't stand up.

But if they're going to open it up to all sitcoms (which they themselves do) then they've got to talk about the whole picture.

I'm not trying to say that women have it easy or that their portrayals are alwyas great on tv because they aren't. And I think there's a good article to be written about that and it's an important subject. This is just a really bad article that starts from a premise and then tries to shoehorn in examples to prove it's point where they just don't fit or are glaringly inconsistent.