So Hawai'i 5-0 is one of those shows I watch now
And it is dreadful. What a ridiculously awful show. Thank god it's pretty.
That said, I have a quibble.
This show actually tends to be better about its ladies than most. Yes, they - or at least Kono - were sexualised a fair bit, and I overlook the sheer ridiculousness of a ninety-pound Asian girl being the team's muscle only for the sheer awesomeness of... well, a ninety-pound Asian girl being the team's muscle. And Jenna being all obliviously fabulous. And the fact that both of them were taken seriously by the guys, and had their own personalities and storylines and whatnot.
And don't get me wrong, I was really really excited that, for a minute there, there was an even split of girls and guys on the team.
But.
Is it so very much to ask to have a female character who doesn't look like a model? Especially one who, I am expected to believe, has years of experience in high-ranking govt positions and is totes the best in her field, guys, and is able to take down a guy pointing a shotgun at her with her mad close-combat skills.
Why can't she be that and look it, too. Why can't she take down a guy without breaking a sweat because she's six feet tall and built like a linebacker? Why can't she look like she has the years of experience you're telling us about instead of like she's just graduated college? Why does this new female character have to be thin and blonde and exchange flirty glances with the male lead? Why can't she be slightly overweight, or have buckteeth, or in her forties?
Why can't she look like me, like the women I know?
That said, I have a quibble.
This show actually tends to be better about its ladies than most. Yes, they - or at least Kono - were sexualised a fair bit, and I overlook the sheer ridiculousness of a ninety-pound Asian girl being the team's muscle only for the sheer awesomeness of... well, a ninety-pound Asian girl being the team's muscle. And Jenna being all obliviously fabulous. And the fact that both of them were taken seriously by the guys, and had their own personalities and storylines and whatnot.
And don't get me wrong, I was really really excited that, for a minute there, there was an even split of girls and guys on the team.
But.
Is it so very much to ask to have a female character who doesn't look like a model? Especially one who, I am expected to believe, has years of experience in high-ranking govt positions and is totes the best in her field, guys, and is able to take down a guy pointing a shotgun at her with her mad close-combat skills.
Why can't she be that and look it, too. Why can't she take down a guy without breaking a sweat because she's six feet tall and built like a linebacker? Why can't she look like she has the years of experience you're telling us about instead of like she's just graduated college? Why does this new female character have to be thin and blonde and exchange flirty glances with the male lead? Why can't she be slightly overweight, or have buckteeth, or in her forties?
Why can't she look like me, like the women I know?