Don't be a Jules!

I thought it was interesting that two comedies dealt with women and clinginess in the premier episodes.

In one corner we had Jules from Cougar Town whose boyfriend Grayson wanted to take a day of from her. She took this personally and dragged him to her therapist. Her best friend had to intervene and made her stay away from Grayson for 24 hours declaring that he had to come back from her on his own. But the whole time Jules was distraught and missed Grayson. Grayson eventually caves before the 24 hours is up and comes back to a delighted Jules.

Then we have Liz Lemon from 30 Rock. Her new boyfriend Carol is pilot and when he comes to town two times a month he stays at a Starwood Hotel which works perfectly for her. Jack does not think this is grown up relationship and throws a monkey wrench in her perfection causing Liz and Carol to cohabitate which cramps Liz’s style. She would prefer to have a relationship like the Barefoot Contessa and her husband have. Ina has dinner parties with her gay friends during the week and then Jeffrey comes home on the weekends. At the end Liz does realize she would rather have a grown up relationship than be alone for the rest of her life.
The difference in these two plots, one was written by a woman and one was written by a man. Yes! Jules being a clingy mess was written by a man. Granted, I am sure there are few women that are like Jules. But I am willing to place bets that the majority of women are more like Liz. In fact, I think the women like Jules are those girls who probably hop from one relationship to another and have a problem being single. They just have issues.
Jules clearly had issues because she stated that she owned six movies and two were workout videos.