andrewgraham replied to your post: Ugh, that was a really bad post about why I…

I think that the media industry is actually quite sexist, so viewers shouldn’t blame Sorkin for showing it.

I was talking about how he writes female characters. It’s been a problem in everything he’s done: women are either ice queens or fragile messes who need a strong man to hold them up. He really doesn’t show in any sexism in the industry; it’s more that his sexism shows up in how he writes his female characters and what their motivations are.

  1. ghost-of-algren said: CJ and Abby both are exceptions to that characterization, but they’re the only ones I can think of.
  2. andrewgraham said: That makes sense. I’m just paying attention to the show’s media criticism; maybe the female characters are poorly written.
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