Oh I know what you mean. It annoys me so much when I see it. I always remember specifically this commercial advertising little electrical cars for kids. Not only was the male female equivalent like 2 girls to 4 boys but if a boy and a girl were in the little car together--the boy was driving. And the car the little girls were allowed to drive was...pink.
You ask me that's far more bothersome than what Supernatural is doing. They have a pretty good mix of characters, outside the leads. Sure they have the bloody Mary girl(and there ARE girls like that) but they do have the Benders' sheriff too. And the flight attendent in Phantom Traveller, Dean is terrified of flying but she, who had been in a plane crash recently, is calm cool and collected in the face of not only a potential second plane crash but a demon taking over her co-pilot and a couple of whacko young guys she doesn't know trying to exorcise him. :) What I like about SPN honestly is that it doesn't seem to give much regard to gender in terms of how the other characters are treated. Dean and Sam are treated as they are as a function of their lead roles, not just because they are male. On the 'even playing field' of the other characters--the characters both male and female are treated pretty equally and females often show alot of gumption. More often than the male guests really. But everyone, male and female, except the Winchesters, are dealing with things they didn't think existed, supernatural things that were supposed to be scary stories, not real--and they all freak out about it.
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Date: 2006-08-31 04:29 am (UTC)You ask me that's far more bothersome than what Supernatural is doing. They have a pretty good mix of characters, outside the leads. Sure they have the bloody Mary girl(and there ARE girls like that) but they do have the Benders' sheriff too. And the flight attendent in Phantom Traveller, Dean is terrified of flying but she, who had been in a plane crash recently, is calm cool and collected in the face of not only a potential second plane crash but a demon taking over her co-pilot and a couple of whacko young guys she doesn't know trying to exorcise him. :) What I like about SPN honestly is that it doesn't seem to give much regard to gender in terms of how the other characters are treated. Dean and Sam are treated as they are as a function of their lead roles, not just because they are male. On the 'even playing field' of the other characters--the characters both male and female are treated pretty equally and females often show alot of gumption. More often than the male guests really. But everyone, male and female, except the Winchesters, are dealing with things they didn't think existed, supernatural things that were supposed to be scary stories, not real--and they all freak out about it.