Damn those nagging feminists

Forgive the title of this post for it is strictly an attention getter.

Frankly I agree with what Josh posted. Everybody concentrates on Penny's character, how she's not developed, a push-over, etc, but nobody pays attention to the characteristics of the two male leads. As Josh says, they are both buffoons in their own ways. Yet, nobody is complaining about that. Actually, this type of characteristic is seen all over television and film. The men are the dumb ones while the women always look on thinking how stupid the men are. Look at most commericials, they do this all the time. Think of those Miller Lite ads where the woman bartender always insults the stupid guys. Where' the outlash? Sitcoms are great at this too. Think of Home Improvement, The Simpsons, Everybody Loves Raymond. Male characters are always looked at to be idiots but there is not a outlash against that.

I'm not saying women aren't treated unfairly in media, cause they are. However, I don't feel every show/movie/whatever should be dissected over how women are percieved. I personally never thought Penny was an object in the Dr. Horrible. She might have been the only noble character in the episode and that's why she died. It's always the good ones.

Finally, I think people should go easy on Whedon. He's given everyone for series full of strong female characters. He only had 40min in Dr. Horrible. Besides, Horrible is the focus, not Penny. If you wanted to dig deeper what about his sweaty roommate? I'm sure people could come up with complaints for that.