4. The social significance of television comedy in relation to female identities

Certainly other significant stereotypes are those that concern female appearance. Television comedy often represents beautiful, thin young women as “dumb”, sexual objects (for example, Two Men and a Half, 2003). However, I will focus on the way happy and successful women are represented by this television genre in relation to their appearance. Such characters are usually beautiful, well-dressed and thin (take for example the main characters from More
