—u/Booklover30001 “Rory and Lorelai Gilmore are classic ’not-like-other-girls’ girls.” —u/Arwynfaun —u/Virtual_hug_1997 “Extremely misogynistic. The director obviously doesn’t like Marilyn or see her as a real person.” —u/ConsistentTip6508 “It’s an infomercial. It shows all of these boring, two-dimensional characters as they go about their unattainable lives, while wearing designer clothes we’re all supposed to want to buy after watching the show. No one has pets, parents, siblings, disabilities, hobbies, etc.” —u/applebubbeline “Women are talked down to a lot. Donna’s acceptable to the group because she acts like ‘one of the boys.’ Jackie’s femininity is presented as annoying, and she eventually turns into another ‘cool girl/one of the boys.’ The boys are allowed to be dimensional, and the girls are always slut shamed.” —u/shittyspacesuit “Any of those ’90s/early 2000s cartoons that are basically about a group of boys plus maybe one or two girls who tend to act more like the boys in order to earn their place in the group.” —u/Zeiserl
celestialism
—u/Amarminalie —u/LadyShaSha —u/Lismale “I think Elliot was written as a male writer’s response to the female stereotype of the ‘dumb, hot blonde.’ They were like ‘seeee blondes can be smart and still be extremely insecure. Doesn’t that make her different and better?’” —u/postcardmap45 —u/buenobars “I watched the entire series again as an adult, and I quickly realized how toxic these friendships are.” —u/sherivero —u/Creepy-Ingenuity5080 “The whole show is full of misogyny. Every episode.” —u/evezinto —u/redjessa “Olivia Wilde intended it purely to be feminist, but it just left me extremely uncomfortable.” —u/4215265 “Why can’t we ever be shown examples of how to LOVE ourselves, instead of showing us a girl who hates herself, changes everything about herself for a guy, and then after the guy doesn’t want her, gives up and dates another guy who bullies her and treats her awful?” —u/Creepy-Ingenuity5080 “His entire catalogue promotes the wrong message. His films show women in such tragic and awful situations, or they promote toxic ideologies for women, especially black women. I stopped engaging with Tyler Perry movies ages ago. I’m shocked he’s still around making films, sitcoms, and toxic soap operas. I truly think he doesn’t like women and is a secret misogynist, but that’s another story for another day.” —u/yellowpowaranga
