Another look at Private Practice...

Tonight while watching Priavte Practice, I noticed several gender refrences. First of all, the main conflict throughout the episode is Addison Montgomery, leading obgyn and surgeon on the west coast is helping a women get through a tough and potentially dangerous pregnancy, while the woman's husband (who is also a doctor at the same practice) develops feelings for Addison. This just shows how when an independent woman, such as Addison Montgomery, lands herself a respected job and is treating a patient professionally, a guy comes in to bring her back down to a flirtatious female character. While she tries to maintain her professionality throughout the episode, she eventually admits her attraction to the doctor, fitting into the stereotypical feminine role. Also, at the beginning of the episode, Addison is seen sitting on the bleachers with her collegue Naomi Bennett watching male collegues and friends play basketball. As the men are focused "on the man's game," the women watch intensely commenting on the men's bodies and flirting with their eyes and facial gestures. This displays how even successful, professional women can act like "school girls" and take on this feminine role of admiration and obsession with males and acting out in flirtatious and desperate ways. The women are always waiting and looking for a man to make them happy even though they are world-renound surgeans! Also, even when they don't try to attract and engage men, attempting to remain professional, their feminine traits take hold and there they are like a school girl again