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All these so-called "empowering" women characters on TV exist for one reason: to serve as a warning to those of us with any ambition that if we succeed we'll end up with an empty materialistic shell of a life or a man who despises us because he feels emasculated by doing housework or making less money than we do.
Now thank God I've met a few real men in my time because I know this does not IMHO reflect reality. This is a sort of Hollywood propaganda/cautionary tale/nah-nah-ni-pooh-pooh fit at professional women.
But I think it does impact women and our perception of reality and our sense of self. This is not designed to shape mens opinions ... because men are not the enforcers of patriarchal attitudes. No, this is to get women to doubt themselves and snipe at one another.
So all you men out there who think your wives and girlfriends are getting perfectionistic and defensive, get them to turn off the TV and turn on some music and play Scrabble rent stuff like Secrets of the Dead on PBS! (Like CSI for The History Channel ... always a good time!)
