Writing Women

profound__whatever reader graphic detail

There's a thread on Done Deal forums right now: Intro of a Female Character.  It started out as a writer asking for feedback on his character description and turned into a debate over ... hell, I don't know.  Does misogyny exist?  Are women only interested in money?  What's wrong with a stereotype?  But I think the point comes from profound_whatever's reader graphic under the section titled "Recurring Problems in Scripts."

Another reader who did an AMA on Reddit, also commented on the stereotypical way women are presented and mentioned they are frequently killed within a page or two of their introduction.

 Lately, there seems to be an influx of misogynistic scripts that come across a lot of our desks, too. I've heard everyone from us readers to large network executives complaining about this. I think a good idea to avoid pitfalls of this nature is to make sure you have a wide range of demos reading your script.
...what qualifies as misogyny in this context? thanks
... without getting into details of a script I recently read, I will just say that every woman in the script is portrayed as a weak sex object. Most were killed within 2 pages of their intro. So not cool. That's just one example.

THIS IS NOT A FEMINIST ISSUE

The concern of the screenwriter is writing a great story and a great script and then selling that.  Shallow stereotypes of any kind do not make for either great stories or great scripts.  And these days, your script can easily get a pass just for this reason. 

In a related thread, Small Note for Women TV Writers, the OP makes the point that women seem to be writing about some fantasy uber-woman and always making her the Hero of the series.

It's so refreshing to see a woman writer who doesn't have a woman as the main character, I can't even tell you.

Everyone needs to write people.  I think that's the lesson here.  This isn't about gender.  It's just about good writing.