i'm not disputing your point about The BeeGees, but Grease is sung by Frankie Valli.

West Wing was good with gender on a macro level, not so good on a micro level, if that makes sense: the show addressed a lot of serious, high-level issues in a smart, thoughtful way and then characters & character interactions could get kind of "men are from mars, women are from venus" but sorkin style. i used to have…