The Worst Female Stereotypes on TV
Mia Walsh
Updated on March 29, 2026
The girl who exists only when a superhero needs to look superhero-y, as seen on The Flash (CW). Candice Patton plays Flash's best friend and is the show's female lead. Yet her big lines include: "Who is that guy?" She follows that up with feeling the Flash's heartbeat and saying, "Feels really fast."
The supposedly adorable klutz, as seen on Manhattan Love Story (ABC). Answer me this: Would you really smell your pits while staring at your reflection right next to the window of the restaurant where you're going on a blind date? On the same day you accidentally called the guy while trying to text him, then said, "I dinner would like"? Writers, FYI, there's oddball, and then there's drunk.
The unrealistically messy hot mess, as seen on Bad Judge (NBC). A hot mess ceases to feel original when she checks off every bad-girl trait with premeditated precision. Kate Walsh plays a judge but has sex at work, makes the bailiff hold her pregnancy test, moonlights in a band named Lady Cock, and has cake and wine for breakfast. Bad girl? Clichéd girl. And incidentally, cake and wine aside, Walsh (and all of us) deserves better.
What types of characters do you never want to see on TV again?
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