Course blog for SUNY Fredonia WOST 201: Introduction to Women's Studies, taught by Professor Jeffry J. Iovannone, Fall 2012.
Saturday, October 20, 2012
Not going to make everyone happy
In class we talked about the pros and cons of the show Girls. Personally I loved the show and think it's very entertaining. A problems we discussed in class about it were, not enough racial diversity, men being portrayed in extremes and lastly that the girls in the show are extremely lucky in their lives and that they shouldn't be complaining. I see the arguments for these to be very strong and I can see where their coming from but then again I feel like people are always going to find a problem with everything. It could fix all those problems and people would still say something. Me personally I enjoy that they have a very specific type of girls in the show; I feel like that makes it much for effective. Sometimes when shows try to address everything, like race and gender, the show starts to be a walking billboard for shoving information down viewers trouts, for example, Glee. I do enjoy the show but I feel like because they are addressing every issue ever in the cast or plot of the show the messages somewhat get lost or lose meaning. Girls does a good job at making every girl watching identify with every character, no matter what the problem. The show is allowed to get much more personal and raw then if they were having to deal with 40 other different societal problems.
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