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Edit: This was supposed to be posted to feminist_rage but I forgot to select posting location.

All I said was I don't like it, and I don't have to justify my taste in entertainment, but yes, I do have an especial problem with the sitcom Just Shoot Me. Mainly because it looks to me like a major part of the story is as follows:

Maya Gallo joins the staff of her father's magazine with strong feminist views and an agenda to push the magazine in a more feminist direction. Instead her views repeatedly fail and she herself is shown to be a hypocrite, using her appearance for advantage in ways she condemns, repeatedly choosing 'sexy, stupid' men over the intelligence and respect she claims to want. No one wants to be saved and the only example of feminism on the show is repeatedly shown to be a false failure.

I didn't bring Seinfeld up but since you say, no, they aren't actually exactly the same apart from both being sitcoms. No one on that show has any kind of anti-oppression agenda the falseness of which gets used as a running thread of humour for that character, and the cast of Seinfeld are not portrayed as people we'd expect or want to be regarded as virtuous.

I just don't enjoy seeing 'feminism is false, feminists are hypocrites' as a major punchline in a series I watch, okay?

It is hard to believe you are the same person who was nauseated by the sexism of an episode of The Jetsons earlier today, but you have expressed a dislike of feminists and feminism in the past so maybe that makes sense?

Baffled, and in need of peace and quiet and fewer sitcoms.

There are a lot of reasons I despise a lot of television

Here is an example of one of them:

So I pass. Most of the time, I pass. I’ve used the parking permit maybe four times, because I don’t want people looking at me, staring because I’m not in a wheelchair, conspicuously inspecting my car looking for a placard, heckling me and asking what my diagnosis is, just as that TV current affairs show encouraged them to do last year.