Congratulations, Criminal Minds Producers! Your decision to dump AJ Cook and shove Paget Brewster to the sideline is long overdue. Let's face it - that was way too much estrogen in the field to be plausible. It's just not reasonable to expect such dainty flowers to handle the brutal and ugly work of men. I know, I know, there are those who say that AJ Cook's "JJ" (and how smart of it was you to give her tiny woman brain such a easy name to remember) was mostly a public relations person and didn't really face much danger, but those reporters can be a nasty lot and JJ should be on a wide front porch, sipping mint juleps and protecting her fair skin with a broad brimmed hat, making babies that some nanny can look after and keeping herself pretty and dumb for her gentleman lover.
Don't even get me started on Paget Brewster's "Prentiss" - a butch, rough and tumble field agent who mostly just slows the guys down because they don't want her to feel bad about not being able to keep up. It just sends the wrong message. I don't mind girls playing field hockey in high school, but I draw the line when they start taking college scholarships away from real athletes, and characters like Emily Prentiss just encourage this kind of faulty logic. I'm sure the plan is to make Prentiss more of a secretary for the team - perhaps she can clean the plane and prep dinner while the boys are off doing the real work, and for that I applaud you.
There's still the problem of Kristen Vangsness and her "know-it-all" character Penelope Garcia. While I simply cannot accept this idea of the team being dependent on Garcia's "intelligence" and "technical skill," at least the producers have the foresight to keep her behind a large desk filled with computers so we don't have to partake in the sight of her woman parts. I'm not worried, though. I know in time you'll find a way to dispatch of her, as well.
It's a new day for television, one free of the XX bonds of tyranny that have long held sway over my television programming. At long last, swarthy manly men can take center stage. The Terrible Day of the Woman is over!
So, congratulations Criminal Minds Producers and enjoy this Boobie Prize from Virgil's All-Night Diner.
If you would like to join me in celebrating this most progressive of casting moves, please consider signing the petition found here: http://www.petitiononline.com/cmwomen/ (I did not create this petition - I'm just trying to spread the good word.)
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