As far as RHOBH go, Lisa Rinna has the best husband.  I say this knowing nothing about the women or the husbands on that show, having never watched. Rather, I say it with confidence because I see Harry Hamlin all the time here in the neighborhood and: Whoa, Zaddy! Even finer in person than on screen.

I really have a hard time wrapping my head around why troubling male characters are more palatable to so many people. I find them so much worse. It’s easier for me to watch a show about a person who has blind spots about themselves but appears to at least live on some understandable moral continuum and have occasional…

Yeah, whenever people ask “who are you in sex and the city”, I never have to think before replying ‘Miranda’. At least also Samantha worked hard, and Charlotte is just classic ‘born into money’ - Carrie’s life is just unbelievably privileged and impossible, but that’s never admitted except to be quirky/funny.  

Can I get some citations where Gore was called ‘shrill’? Or any man being called shrill where someone wasn’t trying to imply he was gay or effeminate?

I mean, Hillary won the popular vote. But  conservatives always super judgy of women. 

In 2000? Sure. That’s actually why I specifically chose Al Gore for this example. He is the poster child of how men can stay the same and have their public perception change pretty handily.

She’s not gonna take it anymore. Good for her.

Wives of antiheroes get the absolute worst rap because they tend to act in a narrow set of functions. They’re either unknowing roadblocks like Rita on Dexter, completely ignorant of their husband’s deeds and always making needy phone calls at highly inopportune moments, which case people hate them for being oblivious…

I actually hadn’t seen Breaking Bad until the final season had just ended. I also somehow avoided any spoilers, never read anything or talked to anyone about it. So I went into not expecting anything and just absorbing the story as I watched without opinions from anyone else.

Look at how female CEOs and politicians are treated when they’re not considered “likeable”. Al Gore can be a lovable, awkward, policy wonk but when a female doppelganger comes along, she’s “boring, uninspiring, shrill, tired, plodding, old” or whatever negative connotation we can give her. There are very few “asshole, …

Actually, re-think Mad Men, and if you haven’t read TLo’s costuming blog, it would be helpful. This is a story about women. Don’s life is defined by his relationships with women, starting with his mother, and his “arc” is a long, agonizing descent. The true arcs in the story were Peggy’s, Joan’s, and Sally’s. That…

I get what SJP is saying. I always thought it was weird that while Don Draper on “Mad Men” was consistently portrayed as a (handsome) lying, alcoholic, philandering, and neglectful douchebag of a husband, friend and father, viewers (and reviewers) would his forgive his shitty personality and actions in light of his…

See also: Betty Draper in Mad Men.

Is it just unlikeable or is it annoying? It reminds me of the movie Made Vince Vaughn got a lot of praise for portraying such an annoying character but it made the movie almost unwatchable.

If my addled memeory serves correctly the women who played Nurse Ratched struggled in the industry after playing what was obviously meant to be a horrible character.

See also: Skyler White in Breaking Bad. People haaaatted her for... not loving the idea of being married to a meth kingpin?

She brings up an interesting point without touching on the exemplar of the form: Skyler White was an interesting, well-fleshed-out character who got tagged with “unlikable” simply because she was doing what any right-thinking person would do in that situation. The tsunami of misogyny that Anna Gunn had to deal with is…

If Stephen King has written a regular column for a fashion magazine, I’d like to read it

When she mentioned, “I guess because she had an affair.” that is when I thought of Tony Soprano. People loved Tony and he was not only a murderer, but also a cheater, often a selfish narcissist. I’m not trying to get anyone to hate Tony, but I think she’s right that characters like Tony Soprano and Don Draper are…

I don’t think it’s that people find Tony Soprano (or Walter White) or whoever else “likable,” it’s that likability doesn’t even merit as a concern for male characters. No one ever said “ew why would you watch Mad Men when Don Draper is such an asshole?” because the whole SHOW was about him being an asshole. Shows that…