I really hoped in her second season they were just going to hook her up with Zack and it would be a nice storyline about a character who was the "female Sheldon" but could get over her problems with a nice, handsome, dumb guy.

The show is horribly sexist and homophobic in it's dealing with Amy. She is treated as a joke as a woman and early on when the (clearly male) writing room didn't know how to develop a normal pattern of female friendship they just made her crack jokes that made her seem like a lesbian, which in itself shouldn't be a…

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No Bomb Girls is very up front about it being Canadian, they have Union Jack's flying plus they joined the war before Pearl Harbour.

Can we discuss why two British foster kids would have been allowed to move to Canada with their Irish foster mother?

Kunis was like 14 when that show started, but yeah not that great.

and Poussey.

yes, mansplain has become a word, so much so that my computer recognises it and doesn't attempt to auto correct it. It is also the word you would have to chose if asked to summarize the Newsroom in one word.

The whole thing was cliche. In culture (male) writers use a woman cutting off her hair as a shorthand for mental instability. No woman can possibly make those sorts of decisions in her right mind.

If we leave the chauvinism vs misogyny aside I completely agree with you. Here you have a character who is supposed to have a Phd in economics who is used only as the awkward girl with no friends or the woman who needs a man's help to understand/fix a situation. It drives me insane.

See to me it felt like a sad commentary on how Sorkin uses female characters. Whenever Sloan has anything important to say she is interrupted or talked over or ignored but whenever Will has some big announcement the whole newsroom watches him in awe.

I really enjoyed the Yoga Jones/Runner story because it felt so disconnected from Piper and the main storyline. It's nice to see smaller relationships weave their way around the main storyline.

She says "all life is sacred", to me this does not compute as pro-lifers make a fetus' life more sacred than the woman carrying it. I'd love fewer abortions to be performed, but I'd like that to be because women have access to free and easy to use birth control, to sexual health education and to good healthcare…

I worked with a Ukrainian who could get by quite easily in Russian.

Flaca? I'm more interested in Gloria.

Never has a sentiment been more true.

Because women in the Newsroom suck at life and need Will (or Jim or Don or Charlie) to save them.

The first thing I thought when Romney Lady (Taylor??) said she'd been fired was "oh, maybe they can keep her on and add another Republican voice to the ACN team". Then I realised this would just be another instance of the white knight male character coming to the rescue of some poor woman, as Jim would have to be the…

We lose the most realistic portrayal of female friendship and teenage girls that TV has had for a damn long time. Women who were treated as characters not stage dressing and platonic relationships between girls that were more central than any of their relationships with boys.

I don't know when Jesus told Lexie she was undocumented I literally said "dun, dun, duuuun" out loud in an empty room. It was kinda cringey.