Grey's Anatomy

Grey's Anatomy lost me when we had to sit through a two night season finale last year to watch all of the young doctors participate in (ultimately) helping to kill a guy under the premise of moving him up the heart transplant list. When those doctors were not reprimanded, stripped of their medical licenses and thrown in jail at the start of the next season I wrote it off and have not watched an episode since.

Since then I've been telling everyone how much Grey's Anatomy sucks. I just had no idea how much of a feminist I am.

New York Times:

The New Modern Woman, Ambitious and Feeble

By ALESSANDRA STANLEY
Published: May 5, 2007

It’s time to play the blame game.

Everything wrong with “Grey’s Anatomy” and its soon-to-be spun spinoff is the fault of “Ally McBeal.”

Mary Tyler Moore and Marlo Thomas were early prototypes of the quirky but lovable career girl. David E. Kelley’s hit series about a deeply neurotic lawyer named Ally McBeal marked a turning point in the devolution of women’s roles in television comedy — the moment when competent-but-flaky hardened into basket case.

...The HBO series “Sex and the City” made light of female insecurity and let its flighty heroines come out ahead. Here even the most successful women are left behind in life.

It wouldn’t matter, since the show is admittedly over-the-top escapist fantasy for women, except that it is troubling that even in escapist fantasies, today’s heroines have to be weak, needy and oversexed to be liked by women and desired by men.

...Shonda Rhimes, who created “Grey’s Anatomy,” also came up with the spinoff. Somehow, even in the hands of a woman, a show about female doctors finds humor and solace in their distress. Self-deprecation has been replaced with self-denigration.

People complain that hip-hop stars use obscene lyrics and lewd music videos to demean women. Sometimes, so do even the most bourgeois women’s television shows.