How far we have come...

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In the 80s, my pop culture influences were pretty restricted and the only adult TV shows I can recall being allowed to watch were MASH and Murder, She Wrote. Obviously not much overt sexism in the latter. MASH of course had "Hot Lips" Houlihan, which you would think says it all right there in the name, but at least from what I remember it was actually pretty progressive at the time. She usually wore turtlenecks, was super smart, and it was the men who were portrayed as kind of idiotic for leering at her while she coolly brushed it off and showed them up by fixing their mistakes every time. This is the only clip I could find online, where they are making a big deal about how she's not necessarily like other women, so maybe they're still clinging to stereotypes by making her the exception-to-the-rule. But she was always a character I liked to watch.