FROM time immemorial, the entertainment industry has always had a reputation for glorifying men and objectifying women.
Familiar tropes involve a heroic manly-man who saves a damsel in distress or a suave bad guy with a ditzy bombshell sidekick who is desperately in love with him—the list goes on.
Some might brush it off and say that “it’s entertainment, sweetheart, this stuff sells.”
Well, buddy, first, don’t carelessly call women “sweetheart,” and second, these kinds of storylines are hardly the ones we want society—let alone women—to normalize.
It’s detrimental and backwater.
But since humankind is capable of evolution, here are five empowering shows that flip the narrative and show that women aren’t objects but are intelligent, strong, and powerful individuals capable of shaping the world.
