HAHAHA OH MY GOD.

What the fuck.

holy shite, i can't believe he was so tactlessly STUPID as to say something like that! he deserves any backlash he gets.

Boy, you really wonder how do guys like this managed to climb so high up the corporate ladder in the first place. That's super-sexist. In fact, I think one-for-one, there are more movies with male leads that bombed because traditionally, males play leads.

Evidently, Mr. Robinov must learn to look outside of commercial forays for inspiration like 'Amelia' and 'Leon: The Professional'.

The latest study in Singapore showed that women make 98 cents for every dollar that men make. So at least we're close to equality there! But you're right - there are constantly horror stories about how men conspire to keep women out of their upper ranks. Wasn't there that crazy story in Britain only a few years ago about this top female exec or something who was forced to do demeaning things like serve her same-leveled male colleagues tea and coffee?

I really don't know about that boy, West (what a silly name). What I do know is that TPTB are planning to pair them up, so yes, it is probably an attempt at puppy!love. I just don't plain like this guy, and I think if the writers go ahead and pair these 2 up I'd have completely lost my respect for ALL the female characters in the series. Because hey, dating a creepy stalker guy whose only way of getting to know you better is to insult you? Bad judgement there, girl.

Fortunately, I watch both 'Heroes' and 'Supernatural' for the male characters, so at least I've something else to focus on when the female characters fail. And they killed off my favourite female character early in S1 anyway. Why are female characters so hard for writers to get anyway? Oh, snap. I just figured it out: because most TV writers are largely guys. Duh.

Men are visual creatures - they see no wrong in intensely observing someone, even if that someone is not welcoming of the attention. That's probably why there are more male stalkers than female ones. Also, it might also account for why so many writers think it is okay for a man to eye a woman they are interested in - because men are visually excited by women (aka natural behaviour). They don't see it as harassment the way women do.

Tim Kring did mention several times in interviews that his vision for 'Heroes' is that of multiculturalism, because the idea of superpowers being genetically derived suggests that anyone on the planet can get them. I found his attempts at it weak, though. Did you know that in the first draft, the character Hiro wasn't even in there? He was added only when Kring's wife thought the show was too angsty, and not because she thought the cast was too white. This season they added a pair of Latino siblings, but it rubs me wrongly in that I feel they were added for the sake of adding coloured characters, rather than because coloured characters will better serve the need of the storyline compared to white characters.

With SPN, I must confess that I'm a little uncomfortable with the way Dean breezes through one-night-stands. More in a "if Dean sleeps around a lot, he's a stud. But if a female character sleeps around, she is a slut" way.

I'll buy the female-as-victims angle, because it makes sense. If I were a crazed spook/monster/ghost/whatever, I'll make it a point to target someone physically smaller/weaker. Why would I want to give myself trouble by going for someone who can fight back? At least, that's how I see it.

Female writers tend to be typecasted into writing romance/drama stuff rather than action-y shows such as Heroes and SPN. I say we're lucky to even get them writing for our shows. Though, with Heroes I am really struggling to find a female role model, or even just a likable female character. As for SPN, we mostly have chick-of-the-week, and so far characters like Meg, Ellen and Jo I've not been able to identify with on any level. Sufficient to say, I'm watching for the guys!

Oh man, that debate can go on forever. I love how guys are totally creeped out by gay p0rn, but they'll happily watch lesbian p0rn. I tried pointing this out to a guy once, and his reply was that lesbian p0rn is hot, but not gay p0rn. Erm, okay. So same-sex p0rn of your own gender is gross, but not the opposite gender? Whatever. Women seem to be more accommodating, though - lesbian p0rn and gay p0rn, it's all good.

Don't quote me on the Hiro thing. It is widely known that Hiro was added at the advice of his wife because she thought it was too angsty. She might have suggested Hiro's ethnicity to her husband, but if she did there certainly have been no mentions of it. I'm just glad they came up with the character of Hiro in the final product because without him, I wouldn't have been hooked long enough for the Petrelli brothers to get their hands on me.

I personally don't mind discussions on gender and ethnic equality, because I think these issues are more relevant than ever with the globalisation of our world. But I also dislike it when people see this issue EVERYWHERE. Some freak on a 'Heroes' community complained that the writers only killed black characters. She was roundly shot down when a dedicated fan came back to her with the kill statistics for S1 of the show, proving to her that they killed more white characters than characters of any other ethnicity in the whole of S1. Some people just see things they want to see, ya know?

I reserve judgement on both guys and girls who sleep around unless I have all sides of the story. As far as I am concerned, a guy can be a slut too, just as a girl can be a... well, whatever is the female equivalent of 'stud'. On the other hand, society at large still considers guy=stud, girl=slut if they both sleep around. I thought we are past the age of enforced celibacy already, but evidently we're not.

I won't say the females in 'Heroes' are underdeveloped or unoriginal. We do have a single mother (who strips online to make the bills, point, but still...), the awkward high school cheerleader, the ditzy but nurturing mother, the misunderstood female FBI agent, the originally unattractive but suddenly glamourous shapeshifter/illusionist, the matriarch who wants to give her son the world on a silver platter, etc. Since 'Heroes' is runs on continuous story arcs, these females do get a chance to become more fleshed-out than the SPN ones. So I must give props to the SPN writers for creating memorable female characters, even if they are Chicks-of-the-Week. Or it could be due to the weekly self-enclosed episode structure of SPN that made me focus more on the women (whom often turn out to play relevant roles, turn evil, etc) even when I know they will only appear once, thus making me take greater notice of them. There's no real way to tell for me. Anyway, to be fair to 'Heroes', they do have a reasonably strong/diverse female cast. It's just that I'd rather focus on the man meat, you know?