As the decades continue to pass, television becomes more popular. Leading into the 90’s, TV shows had great effects on women (especially teenage girls). They watched how women became more and more powerful and they couldn’t get enough of it. Shows like 90210 and Melrose Place were the start of a new ear for “girl power” and the ratings soared. Critics didn’t believe any of these shows would be successful, but the show was number one and 69 percent who watched it were females.
Chapter two deals with the aggression of women. They think because “she is a women”, she should be more lady like or non violent. That just in not true. Women are just as powerful and capable of violence as men and it should not be amplified in the news when a woman does strike back. The violence should not happen in general but just because it does and it’s a woman it is blown out of proportion. The media should equally cover it.
The third chapter dealt with strong women who could kick butt. Growing up, watching Buffy was one of my favorite shows. I got to see a girl for change kick a bunch of vampire butt and no male could keep up. She went through love, sisterhood and dying and still, nothing could stop her. She was probably one of my heroes when I was younger.
Overall, I believe that the effort to make woman more powerful on television has gotten better but there is still worked that needs to be done.
Meaghan- I really liked that you brought up Douglas' point that media execs did not think that their girl power-esque shows would bring in much interest/ revenue at first. I found this really interesting and ironic, since these shows gained so much popularity. It would be intriguing to investigate what these execs originally projected for these shows, rating-wise, and I also wonder if these execs ever discussed issues of feminism like we do in class.
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