There have been a couple references above the the West Wing.
I remember loving that show at the time, but haven’t seen it for years.
What was misogenic about it?
As I recall, President Bartlett treated his wife well, and she was more than just a trophy First Lady like Nancy Reagan or Jackie Kennedy. And the love affairs among the staffers seemed pretty normal to me. The administrative assistant girl (Donna?) was a bit of ditzy character )who seemed to me like a naive kid , not quite ready for the responsibility of a job in the White House), so maybe they made her the butt of some jokes. But I don’t have any memories of the show that would today be called sexist.
I agree, plus his long-term flashback with Mrs. Landingham. The more questionable lines (“No room for amateurs or Earth mothers”) occurred long after Sorkin left. I guess condensing all “women’s concerns” into Mary Louise Parker was a bit myopic, but Allison Janney and Lily Tomlin were outstanding. Maybe Moira Kelly’s thankless disappearance?
In West Wing, the misogyny wasn’t in the big themes or storylines. Just a whole lot of little comments the male characters would make to the female characters, in passing. Little comments and offhand, causal quips during the routine work day. But very noticeable to me, at least. On average, maybe once every three episodes, but sometimes clustered more within an episode.
The most memorable such scenes for me involved the young southern Republican woman who worked in the Bartlet White House. But that’s almost too blatant (in part because this character explicitly “fought back”); I’m referring more to the day-to-day comments toward other characters, that were never addressed my anyone as problematic.