Reply #5: I lame TV show pushing the women's movement back decades?

[Misunderestimator]

Ah, come on. You can point to hundreds of other shows that do the same. There will ALWAYS be women who cling to someone else's coattails to get ahead... just as there will ALWAYS be MEN who cling to someone else's coattails to get ahead... and often that someone is a woman.

On edit... I think that "Friends" has done more incidious damage to the public's perception of women than Survivor. I only watched a few episodes the first couple of seasons but it was my impression that it protrayed women as far weaker than men, as evidence by their professions in the show. At the time I last saw it, the 3 men had professional careers, one an IT manager, the other an anthropologist and the last an actor (albeit largely out of work). The women were waitresses. And I remember one particularly distasteful episode with one of them having to dress up seductively and dance on tables. Nothing wrong with waitressing but there's a clear difference between the white-collar guys' jobs and the women's.

And, of course, in the end.... MARRIAGE is just the most important thing to a woman, don't you know. </sarcasm>