Women: The Televised Feminist Summary

In Andi Zeisler’s article, “Career Girls and Wonder Women: The Televised Feminist,” the main character Zeisler is evaluating is Mary Tyler Moore and the woman she represents in the world. The media has represented her as a working woman who puts her job before romance and she was always doing grunt work, ex: typing and getting coffee for others (76). While we, as an audience, see this woman as a cute office woman who is “spunky” and eager to work she sees herself as a woman who is capable of doing things that media has portrayed her character to act. She is represented in an office where men are getting paid more, have better work, and surrounded by uneducated male coworkers. She grows as a character and become respected in the workplace once she shows that she has the ability to do just as well and any other person in …show more content…
Stereotypically, black women are not getting married like they should be and maybe that is entirely their fault. They are seen to be too independent and maybe they need to start getting married. The typical black woman does represent herself as strong and independent because media has shaped us into thinking black women NEED to be strong in order to survive nowadays. They are scrutinized more than white women but they have every right to be equal. She is not represented in the home with a husband and children. Yet she represents herself as a go-getter and someone who can do great things with her life. When thinking of black women getting married, there is a stigma that because she is not getting married there is something wrong with her. That she “needs to be less educated, less independent, and less herself” (Winfrey 47), in order to become available for marriage. I believe that it is okay not to get married and that many people are starting to realize this as well and hopefully as time goes on, there will no longer be these