They still have some of the strongest female roles available in Hollywood. Janel Moloney, who played Donna in "The West Wing," declined an interview request for this article. Has Josh harassed Donna? Realizing that powerful men were getting away with things -- getting our new glasses prescription, to use Lippman's metaphor -- is exactly why we have a Donna Problem. Angyal, now a HuffPost editor, points to "The Ugly Truth," in which Katherine Heigl plays a TV personality given a misogynist co-host to improve her ratings -- but also, it turns out, to wear her down until she dates him. In the unseen Santos administration ahead, "West Wing" favorites Donna Moss and Josh Lyman (Janel Moloney and Bradley Whitford) are part of the team - …

She's his assistant, played by Janel Moloney. In graduate school, Lippman studied how stalking depicted in a romantic-comedy setting (a la "Something About Mary") vs. a dark setting (a la "Sleeping With the Enemy") might affect viewers' perceptions of stalking in general. In real life, the handsome jerk may be just a jerk, even if he has a cute nephew. "Love Actually": Is it the story of a prime minister falling in love with his assistant, or a prime minister reassigning the assistant because he was jealous that the U.S. president got to sexually harass her and he didn't? Nutt is a co-creator of Rotten Apples (therottenappl.es), a new site that allows you to type in any movie or TV show and learn whether a main player has been accused of harassment.

But type in "The West Wing," and the message comes back, "Fresh Apples: This movie has no known affiliation to anyone with allegations of sexual misconduct against them." Look, Heigl is happier when she listens to him, so he must've been right all along! "For me, it hasn't been a black-and-white thing," says Bekah Nutt, who works for a Los Angeles ad agency. They're still funny. But they're movies that reflect either what the filmmakers think should be normal behavior, or what unfortunately already is. Maybe one solution is this: Watch the movies, but with eyes wide open to the problems. For the first six seasons they are -- well, what are they doing? "If he was giving you every opportunity," her dubious friend replies, "you would have grown out of this job three years ago." Millions of swooning fans prior to 2017 would have said they were flirting. Any media that, if you want to recommend it to a friend, "you feel you need a disclaimer," says writer Lara Elena Donnelly, who held forth on the topic at a panel at last year's New York Comic Con.
"But if I wrote that column now," she speculates, "I feel like people might be in agreement with me." Their relationship is played as sweet. She was mortified.

Lippman and I ponder a retroactive rating system for movies with the Donna Problem: This film is rated #MeToo, for a man making three sexual innuendos on a sales conference call, and for a woman laughing them off because she didn't want to lose the account. Newer; No matter that she didn't hire him for it. He insists she needs someone to cheer her up: "And in your case, it's my job." "But all of this has caused me to think - how when I go to watch something I've watched a hundred times, it's different now."
Not really, by legal definition. "Romantic comedies are the only genre written for, by and about women," Angyal says.

We can no longer ignore that a lot of little-bad things together are what normalize a toxic culture. They're also just ... squicky. ("Sixteen Candles" also features one of the most unfortunate racial stereotypes of the modern era, Asian exchange student Long Duk Dong.) "And it's not like there's a violent content warning for the things we're talking about," Lippman says. She's his assistant, played by Janel Moloney. I'm really looking forward to it.Looking back on "The West Wing," it's hard to root for Donna (played by Janel Moloney) and Josh (played by Bradley Whitford).

October 22, 2019 / The West Wing Weekly.


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