Word: gendered
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...five surgical interns and their bosses at Seattle Grace seem refreshingly familiar. "This is an old-fashioned show, and that's what makes it feel fresh," says creator and executive producer Shonda Rhimes, a black woman who has made a conscious effort to increase diversity (both racial and gender) in the show's casting. "The high-tech plot-driven shows are fantastically exciting. We're an alternative." And unlike Meredith's dilemma, there's no uncertainty about which option viewers of Grey's Anatomy will choose...
...with Chicago's Second City troupe, where, she says, "your starting place was always current events and social issues." Her hit movie Mean Girls was a mainstream feminist entertainment that was steeped in ideas but not overwhelmed by them. And 30 Rock is at heart about the race-class-gender triangle among its three leads: Liz, a talented but headstrong woman; Jack, a conservative suit who's not as dumb as Liz wishes he were; and Tracy, a loony--but cannily so--black celebrity who came from nothing...
...Rock is willing to let each of its characters be right and wrong; it's confident that we don't need to worship them to like them. And for all the show's cartooniness, its gender-conscious take on the TV business is actually more sophisticated. Sure, networks occasionally interfere with shows for political reasons. But more often, they do so for demographic reasons. Or for no reason. "Sometimes," Jack boasts, "you have to change things that are perfectly good just to make them your...
Though sponsored by women’s groups, the trip is open to men as well. Neel K. Rai ’08 said he was not deterred from going on the trip by the gender focus of the sponsors. “Warren Buffett is one of the greatest business leaders ever, so whatever he talks about will probably be relevant,” Rai said...
...upper middle class, and not speaking RP was a distinct disadvantage," she says. It's a common perception. According to the Department of Trade and Industry's Fair Treatment at Work Survey 2005 (published this June), accent was named as a cause of unfair treatment more often than race, gender or religion. "Students generally want RP," Hughes says. "Some want to sound like the people they work with - the way the majority of educated Londoners speak." He calls it "lazy RP," using less precision than a newsreader. So is lazy RP in the cards for me? Hughes has me read...