The show 2 Broke Girls is something that I watched a lot growing up with my mom and grandma. I feel like the sitcom stems from those like The King of Queens, with two females representing different feminist roles. Kat Dennings plays Max Black, who grew up rougher and earned her street or people smarts. In contrast, Beth Behrs's role of Caroline Channing is educated and has more book smarts. They are living together in New York City and saving money to open a cupcake store.
The two work at the same cafe owned by Han Lee, played by Matthew Moy. He holds more of the masculine role. However, it is pretty unassuming since he is a shorter oriental man. But there have been times in the show where he protects the girls; I believe there was a scene where they were getting robbed, and Han pulled out a gun on the robber. This shocked the girls, and Earl, the doorman, played a little bit of the masculine role throughout the show, more to guide the girls.
In the later seasons of the sitcom, Caroline and Max can finally open their cupcake shop. They could do so after Caroline sold her life story for $250,000, which allowed them to open a space near the cafe to start their cupcake business finally. It shows entrepreneurship and that hard work can pay off for women without the stereotypical “need” for a man. The show kind of came to an abrupt ending after that because it was canceled after season six.
My question is, how would older scriptwriters and directors view a film like this? It probably wasn’t until the late 90s and early 2000s that TV producers started to accept feminism, but why didn’t they do it earlier? There are now a variety of shows for everyone that somewhat break stereotypes; however, there are still shows that depict them. Will we ever be able to avoid these types of shows or only offset them with opposing values?
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