Leading Women on TV: Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries
Leading Women on TV: Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries "Defining conventions for her time she's charming, not ashamed of her sexuality, smart and highly skilled and doing all that with an impeccable sense of style." Lately I've been bothered by the lack of female characters on TV that I can relate to, that I consider real, complex, that look like me. I am a feminist, I don't conform to the traditional gender roles assigned to women. I am sick and tired of seeing women as victims on TV. I have a penchant for watching detective shows. Many times in these shows, in most TV shows on TV really, there's a male lead and women always play second fiddles or victims. A male lead that's genius but broken. Unable to maintain relationships, full of secrets that need to be unraveled, we tune in to figure him out- often times a white man. Lately I've grown tired of that. Women are often times the victims of male perpetrators rather then heroes who bring vi...