Oh, Hollywood. So eager to be seen as a torch of progressive thought and forward thinking, and yet so bound and determined to be the last bastion of objectification and misogyny. During Monday night’s telecast, the Emmy Awards put Modern Family‘s Sofia Vergara on a spinning pedestal because who even cares why. The punchline, as with so many jokes regarding Sofia Vergara, is that she is an attractive woman and so wouldn’t it be funny to reduce her to a trophy? This all happened just before Modern Family took home yet another Emmy for excellence in comedy, not that you’d know anyone on the show had anything funny to contribute to society from watching the Emmys. You keep doing you, Emmy Awards …
