We stumbled into "Scott and Bailey", a 2011 British tv show focused on two women police detectives. It is interesting and thought-provoking. Virtually every male in the story causes difficulty and trouble. Good thing this is all fiction!
We watch it on Amazon Prime tv. The episodes are about 50 minutes long, a convenient length for our evenings. I have read recently that the various forms of television are gobbling up new and old stories at a high rate. What I read implied that more shows are longer, running more like 90 or 120 minutes.
The show is written by Sally Wainwright and others. It emphasizes the twists and turns that life, especially romantic and married life can take while trying to maintain order, capture the wicked and convict the truly guilty. Not easy. I get reminded of the idea that women carry a heavier burden in life than do men, bearing children, raising children, loving children, even adolescent children as well as parents, all the while being told what to do, how to do it and how to feel about it all by older women and by men who naturally know everything and are willing to lay their ideas on women whether asked for or not.
I have read repeatedly that women everywhere live longer than men do so women's ways of doing and acting, not to mention their bodies and temperaments, may be biologically superior to men's. I often use a shorthand explanation for myself that focuses on drives and fighting induced by testosterone. However, the difference in longevity that I found today is 5 years, men dying at 76 and women at 81. I imagine clever remarks and ideas will continue to be made by both groups. Things like "Women don't live that much longer, it just seems longer" and "Men are weak and desert the struggle earlier."
