As this makes clear (and one of the commenters points out) the main reason people (including many feminists, I believe) don’t like the Supergirl trailer is that the hero is female.

BTW, there is just as much “bubbly nonsense” in male superhero shows but that gets a pass because it’s ok then.

Men won’t like the show because it’s got a female lead and because she’s not there to be eye candy.

Feminists will torch the show because it doesn’t hit every feminist talking point, and because it’s not dark and brooding, and because the character is realistically awkward and not some insta-badass.

A character that is sincere, thoughtful, femme, bubbly and not quite comfortable in her own skin? Yes, please. (I suspect a lot of feminists also dislike her because she is in fact very feminine. Internalized misogyny is pervasive.)

The show will last one season, I predict.

Who should be responsible when your robotic surgeon fucks up?

It should receive the robot death penalty: have Windows ME installed on it.

It’s crazy what executive assistants are asked to do these days, and the degrees they are expected to hold.

Also known as secretaries and/or administrative assistants.

The words don’t matter to me. The fact that I’ve seen job ads for secretarial positions that require a master’s degree is just blasting wonky.

From my own corporate experience and from reading this, it appears that companies are attempting to hire “assistants” to do the tasks that actual well-paid executives formerly would undertake, all for an “assistant” salary. Have seen this myself in the workaday world.

I had a full-time assistant (male, actually) at a job I worked for a year. It was great. I was so vastly more productive as anything that wasn’t my actual job I didn’t have to think about. It was just taken care of.

I got literally ten times as much done that actually helped the company in ways directly related to my role.

Productivity-wise, companies are shooting themselves in the foot by eliminating secretaries and executive assistants.

But it’s more difficult to measure than “firing someone on paper appears to save us $50,000 a year, so we’ll do that.”