Scrubs and Sexism

I remember that one with JD, also the one where the women want their own changing rooms and to illustrate how exposed they feel Elliot is made to do a burlesque type dance in front of the jeering male doctors, with JD standing by. Elliot's character constantly undressing no matter what the pretext pissed me off.

socka- I saw that episode and cried- at the time I was 8 weeks postnatal and feeling under pressure to lose weight and feeling inadequate in the bedroom. It really is a negative message to give to women!
Another episode focuses on jds not seeing married women. As though women are only worth socializing with if there is sexual potential. I think thats a fairly offensive concept tbh.

I used to like scrubs, but now when I see the odd rerun (my little sister likes it, she's 12) I think it was always pretty crap.

Inyourendo!!!!!!

I like the episode where they went on a course for S harrasment, the todd is a figure of ridicule so maybe there making fun of these sort of people??

I just remembered that there's also the way that Dr Cox tries to humiliate JD by calling him female names - though I think in those scenes the viewer is supposed to be on JD's side and thinking that Dr Cox is being overbearing and annoying; it's not quite as simple as saying "Ha ha, JD is feminine and that's not good."

And JD drinking appletinis is played for laughs - I must admit that I do find that funny.

I used to love Scrubs, but the last series definitely got more sexist (and less funny - coincidence?)

The sit-com I really struggle with is "how I met your mother" -which is a setup about a group of friends, similar to Friends but the way they talk about the women that one of the group sleeps with is just repulsive.

I love scrubs, but I know what you mean. I've been watching the Big Bang Theory, which I also love, but wondering if it is a bit sexist. At first the only girl was a ditzy blonde, friends with 4 smart guys. However there are now more girls, and tbh the girls tend to come of better than the blokes, usually have the upper hand. And it's true that sitcoms tend to take the piss out of everyone and use stereotypes for comic effect rather than using them as normality.

I like scrubs but one episode, the Janitors wedding I think, irked me. Carla had left the baby for the first time and was wearing big swimming costume and cover up on the beach while Elliot and er the woman from Cougar Town had starved and lipo-ed themselves in tiny bikinis. Turk kept trying to get Carla into bed but she kept ringing home to check the baby. She does a pretty good speech about it all, how hard it is to juggle etc I think. However she soon comes to her senses, gets the bikini on and does her wifely bedroom duty.

Scrubs aim is to make fun of everyone in a light hearted way

I'm not sure if I would agree that Scrubs is misogynistic - it's a sitcom so obviously they are poking fun at everybody. Carla is a fantastic and strong character from what I remember. Another nurse, Laverne, was large and I can't remember her weight ever being made an issue. Another thing I like is the way they portray inter-racial friendship and an inter-racial longterm relationship/marriage - few sitcoms or dramas do this.

Do you have any more examples of things that you think are sexist in it?

Not seen Scrubs but with you on the whole sexism on TV etc thing. Have you heard of the Bechdel test? It frankly ruins anything you watch as most things on the TV fail it I find.