House - TV series

I don't know that this show counts as devolution media...I just find it so sad that it is so popular.

Hugh Laurie - a British comedian - plays the American doctor House, who is a complete and total jerk. And yet he somehow gets the affection of his beautiful interns (there's at least one female intern, plus two male interns) and the head of the hospital.

Apparently women like "bad boys" even when they're total jerks....which is very sad not to say frightening.

(I remember many years ago a movie called The Fisher King, the main character played by Jeff Bridges tells his girl friend that he only stays with her because of the sex. She's hurt - but does she dump him, despite knowing how he feels? No, of course not. Then, to cite only one other example - there was some show on BET, a black teacher, and an overweight black woman has a crush on him, he insults her all the time, yet she continues to pine for him and love him despite all this verbal abuse - I just wanted to kick both him and her).

Anyway...watching House today, he comes back from having been in a coma and received a Ketamine treatment that has helped his leg (though, if I remember correctly, at the end of this ep it wears off and he's back to having to limp and be in pain all the time). His three interns greet him and he ignores them. But the woman of course is not offended and continues to try to talk to him like he's a normal human being.

 In times like this I always say...what would happen if a woman were in the role? Would *she* get the same respect that a male doctor would get, or would she be excoriated as a ball buster and would the series be quickly cancelled?