5 female empowerment lessons learned thanks to TV series

If I had to mention some of the things that have contributed to my personal training, in addition to hundreds of books and as many films, I can only include the TV series. With some I literally grew up and thanks to them I understood a lot of my being a woman: from how to live sex without taboos to fighting for one’s independence and emancipation. Ok, it won’t be like reading Simone de Beauvoir, ma something about female empowerment and feminism also came to me from some intense binge watching sessions.

Here are 5 lessons on the subject that can be learned thanks to TV series.

1- THERE ARE NO JOBS FOR MEN ONLY (GLOW)

In this series (Netflix, why didn’t you decide to renew it?) it is the men who emerge defeated: never up to the situation, weak and, at times, mean. All the protagonists, from Ruth a CherrieInstead, they show that not only women can practice a typically male sport such as wrestiling very well (even better!), but that with their own ideas and creativity they can make it unique. Without forgetting to reconcile, at best, private life and family. True queen.

2- WOMEN CAN BE SEXUALLY FREE (SHE’S GOTTA HAVE IT)

This is a concept that we should take for granted, but we know that it is not so because the sex life of us women is continually judged. In the universe of Spike Lee, the protagonist, How Darling, is having an affair with three men. Then he decides to get engaged to a woman, after falling in love with her. To serve as a side dish there are various flirts. How he experiences sex in a free and instinctive way, demonstrating that it is possible to do so by overcoming misogynistic and male chauvinistic preconceptions.

3- YOU MUST ALWAYS FIGHT FOR GENDER EQUALITY (CABLE GIRLS – THE SWITCHBOARD GIRLS)

Lidia, Carlota, Angels, Sara e Many are five women who work in the most important Spanish telephone company, a Madrid, in 1928. In a period in which women’s rights are not only not recognized, but not even considered, the protagonists of the series are fighting for their rights and to win their independence. And, in the end, just like the drop that digs the stone, they manage to achieve great results by improving their condition. So, even if it seems difficult to us, there are never battles that are lost from the start.

4- FEMALE SOLIDARITY IS OUR ACE IN THE SLEEVE (JESSICA JONES)

Jessica Jones’s character is a complete disaster: impulsive, scruffy, disorganized and alcoholic. But how does he manage to find, in all this chaos, the strength to act and run to the aid of those in difficulty? Also thanks to her best friend, Trish Walker. Both support each other, help and are each other’s strength. When they come together there is none for anyone, especially men. Being supportive and complicit with other women can really be a turning point in our life.

5- OUR SUCCESS IS NOT MADE ONLY OF RENUNCIATIONS (THE MINDY PROJECT)

Behind the comic side of this starring series Mindy Kaling There is a very important message for us women: achieving success in the workplace does not necessarily mean giving up something, be it family or private life. Indeed Mindy she is a strong woman who runs her own business, raises her children alone and has a complex, yet full and satisfying love life. I know we are used to the mother or manager dichotomy, but it is absolutely not true. As a manifesto from several years ago quoted: we can do it!