03-03-2015, 09:30 AM
I don't know if I agree with the article. The lead men on this show are stereotypical nerds. short, tall, stick-thin, asthmatic, and sports phobic and the women are shown in numerous stereotypes including the main one that the higher your IQ is the uglier you have to look. If they really wanted to break the male/female stereotypes, they would have one of the girls enjoying the supposedly male dominated geekery of comic books/Roleplaying, or have Penny get a job training horses or being a car mechanic (she rebuilt engines at 12) instead of giving her a job as a RX sales rep, a job that is stereotypically filled by hot looking girls who flirt with Doctors to sell drugs.
This show doesn't really break stereotypes (they just pretend they do). The men do exactly what men who are nerds are supposed to and the hot girl across the hall is shown to be a party girl boarding on alcoholism just because she is pretty (therefore stupid). I think the closest this show gets to breaking stereotypes is when Raj is being "metrosexual" (which unfortunately for this show just means adding another gay joke)
This show doesn't really break stereotypes (they just pretend they do). The men do exactly what men who are nerds are supposed to and the hot girl across the hall is shown to be a party girl boarding on alcoholism just because she is pretty (therefore stupid). I think the closest this show gets to breaking stereotypes is when Raj is being "metrosexual" (which unfortunately for this show just means adding another gay joke)
“There are no scenes more fun to do, I feel like, than the ones between Sheldon and Penny. They are such a wonderful odd couple.” - Jim Parsons