The 2011-2012 television season has shown a rise in the woman-centered comedy. Women-centric comedies that have premiered or will premiere in this season include 2 Broke Girls, GCB, Best Friends Forever, Girls, Suburgatory, New Girl, Veep, and Don’t Trust the B—- in Apartment 23. Some of these shows are even centered around two or more women.
I think this is good news. Some people disagree, such as the co-creator of Two and a Half Men, Lee Aronsohn. He thinks women-centric TV has peaked. He said, charmingly, “Enough ladies, I get it. You have periods…But we’re approaching peak vagina on television, the point of labia saturation.”
I know this seems like a gross, sexist comment, but I think he has a point. You might think that the current line-up of women-centered sitcoms is just evening the playing field a little, and not coming close to dominating television, but you probably haven’t been following Hollywood insider stories about upcoming sitcoms set for the 2012-2013 year. Once you read this insider information, I think you’ll agree that we have a few too many female-centric sitcoms on television.
Cunty the Manpire Slayer – Joss Whedon brings his long-awaited sequel to Buffy back to the small screen, bringing Sarah Michelle Gellar with him. Cunty continues to hunt vampires, but only male vampires, and instead of using a phallic symbol of a wooden stake, she uses her powerful vaginal muscles to rip their heads off.
Twin Peak Vaginas – In this fantasy-comedy, the warring mountain kingdoms (sorry – queendoms) of Fallopia and Ovaria battle for territory of the Sea of Endometrium.
Cervix Says – Cervix McNally, a female census taker, is thrown for a loop when she is assigned a partner, Joe Testicle. A romantic comedy about love in the statistics age.
One Labia to Live – A female ob-gyn is forced to share office space with a female plastic surgeon specializing in labia reduction in a workplace comedy. Starring Meryl Streep and Victoria Beckham.
Whores Line Up for It Anyway – A new short-form improv/competition reality show starring prostitutes from the biggest cities in the United States, with improv games centering on sex acts. The winner is promoted to madam of her very own bordello.
As you can see, this is getting out of hand. I hate to agree with the co-creator of Two and Half Men about anything, but I can’t deny that he has a point.
I feel stupid for saying this but I don’t get the joke. It might be because of my trouble with sarcasm. Is it that the upcoming shows aren’t as woman centric as is claimed? Or that woman centric shows aren’t just about girl parts and it is sexist and ridiculous to make such a claim or something else?
Or that woman centric shows aren’t just about girl parts and it is sexist and ridiculous to make such a claim or something else?
This one. He’s joking that women-centered comedies must all be about girls and their girl body parts, so I decided to make it literal and exaggerate his point.