Fully Functional.
It’s a tad dated now but still hilarious “The I.T. Crowd” owns it hard. One of the funniest shows ever made.
except that one episode
also the misogynistic framing of Jen, although at times she is shown to save the day by being well adjusted
I wouldn’t say it was a misogynistic framing. Is that just because she was IT illiterate?
So she’s basically the only woman in the show, and the only long term one. Despite basically everyone at the company being completely clueless about technology most of the jokes about it are played at her expense, particularly early on.
It’s very much playing into the “haha women be shopping and clueless” stuff, which is a misogynistic framing. Especially considering the actual history of computing.
it was a good how it played the idea of tech vs non tech but it did play a terrible stereotype about women vs men roles. Unfortunately at the time it was written, tech industry was at its prime of being the most difficult for women to break into it for one of the main reasons they were often excluded and even discouraged by a lot of gatekeeping men. (Example: James damore who wrote that misogynistic manifesto).
no doubt it was just writers writing what they know rather than writing from an idealistic approach which seems to be what current day sitcoms try to achieve.
Silicon Valley also suffered a bit of the same although it did try to introduce the occasional tech woman if even just a love interest now and again.
And then there was mythic quest that tried to almost even reverse the typical roles on gender in the tech industry…but then they still wrote women very terribly.
