Yesterday, the Boston Globe had an article, with the cringe-worthy title “On TV, men are the new weaker sex,” stating that ABC’s Thursday night line-up has a playground of whipped men and overpowering women. It’s a bit of an uncomfortable read — full of gender-based assumptions — but it does have its point. ABC is appealing to a demographic of women who enjoy empowered female characters to the point where the women are horrible (Meredith Grey, Izzie Stevens) and the men are pansified pushovers.

It has become a night of emasculated men and emasculating women. If the classic male pinup was the strong, silent, unattainable type, tonight’s TV dream man is addled and fawning. And the empowered woman – once a happy departure from older stereotypes – has become not just self-sufficient, but kind of mean.

On that note, let’s put it all out there. Below, you’ll find a graph of TV men the macho and the sensitive compared with the annoying and the tolerable. Let’s see how it all plays out.

I want to be one of those old rich dudes with the antique car license plate.

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