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So This is Why We Hate ABC

by State School Elitist

According to this article, ABC has loaded its Thursday night lineup with emasculated men and ball-breaking women. While we can’t really attest to the two shows the article discusses in detail (Grey’s Anatomy and Big Shots), we do have one question with the article: are they certain it’s only Thursday nights?

I mean, this website’s disdain for ABC is well documented (and this is hardly the sole reason, trust me), so it’s not like we would be watching any of these series’ anyways. But isn’t the “alpha woman walking all over every guy in her path” shtick sort of ABC’s moniker? If you run down their schedule, it kind of sounds like that, a good 30%-40% of their original series’ seem to be overran with at least a semblance of this premise. That’s hardly a one night a week aberration.

The writer of the article seems to take the whole concept a little more seriously than we do. If it attracts an audience then we can’t fault ABC for doing it. Considering a predominant amount of prime time TV watchers are female, then that’s probably the motivation. But we certainly do not engage in such viewing. In the interest of full disclosure, we did watch an episode of What About Brian? (it has since been canceled) in the earlier stages of this website, and it did seem steadfastly committed to the generic and consistently overplayed beta male-alpha female relationship theme, and we didn’t really rip the series for that, but rather for it’s melodrama, god awful dialog and predictability.

I suppose the point is, while it’s easy to call out ABC on their gender-baiting, it’s far easier to bash them for their quality of programming. The latter just seems far less argumentative.

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