Last week I asked you to vote for who you think is the best female role model on television. The actress who best represents what little girls should aspire to be when they grow up, essentially. The results were, perhaps inevitably, very worrying in places! Maybe a few people didn't quite understand what a role model is? We live in a world where Paris Hilton and Katie Price are considered role models, so maybe I shouldn't be so surprised. Of the 65 votes, here are the results:
NO VOTES!
There was absolutely no love for Glee's Amber Riley, Breaking Bad's Anna Gunn, V's Elizabeth Mitchell, Damages' Glenn Close, Chicago Code's Jennifer Beals, No Ordinary Family's Julie Benz, Glee's Lea Michele, Damages' Rose Byrne and True Blood's Rutina Wesley. I was very surprised Rose Byrne didn't receive any votes, particularly as she plays a very intelligent and principled lawyer on Damages. Surely that's someone women should aspire to become. Jennifer Beals also plays the "chief of all cops" in The Chicago Code, but that show's admittedly not very well-known right now. Maybe Beals would attract more votes if this poll was running in 2012.5th. Anna Paquin & Indira Varma + others – 2.86% |
4th. Elisabeth Moss, Julianna Margulies, Laura Linney - 5.71% |
4th. Archie Panjabi, Christina Hendricks, Edie Falco - 5.71% |
3rd. Karen Gillan - 8.57% |
2nd. Yvonne Strahovski - 14.29% |
1st. Anna Torv - 17.14% |
Any thoughts on the results? Were any actresses cruelly snubbed by voters? Is it a terrible shame a few choices weren't much higher in the rankings?