Guest column: DeadToMe creator thelizfeldman on why it's time for TV to embrace angry women
Liz Feldman explores how she handled her one frustrating note from her studio — that Christina Applegate's character was"too angry."
That said, for the past few years, because I'm a woman who lives in this world, I have felt a seething resentment brewing inside me. It's a growing disgust with the patriarchy and accompanying misogyny that seeks to control women, our bodies and our expectations of men. You know, that whole "It's 2019, our president's an admitted sexual assaulter, legal abortion is hanging on by a thread and the ERA still hasn't passed" thing.
Now, 99 percent of the time, our studio and Netflix compatriots were incredibly, almost absurdly, supportive. I'm not saying that to kiss ass. It's true and I'm grateful for their support. Really, the only thing we got pushback on was Jen's anger. There was a genuine fear that it made her unlikable. But getting the "Jen's too angry" note did something very surprising, and meta, to me. It pissed me the fuck off. For the first time in my life, I got confrontational. I was angry that there was fear around her anger. In my mind, Jen had every right to be enraged. She lost her husband in an unsolved hit-and-run, leaving her to parent two boys alone, surrounded by people who don't know how to deal with her version of grief.
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