BEING FBI IS SEXY

BEING FBI IS SEXY

In looking back at my youth I realize something. For the generation before me and the one before them, Feds were really squares and people you couldn't trust all that much given the events of Watergate and the idea that big brother is always watching.  But around the time of my youth that sort of changed.

Twin Peaks debuted and it had this sort of slick and cool FBI agent in Dale Cooper investigating a murder in the pacific northwest. He was very young, attractive and well, a very different image than what folks had seen before from an agent from the government. Soon after that you had Special Agent Mulder and Scully making their TV big splash and let's just say that the two of them did more to repair and promote the image of a government stooge than anyone could have ever imagined.

Scully in herself is the reason that there was an increase in women who entered the field of science and government work. They call it the Scully-effect and it's a real thing. It drove a lot of women to join law enforcement because it was reaffirmation that women can take on those roles in real life if they see the character on television that represents themselves.



According to a new study, "nearly two thirds of women that work in STEM stated that Dana Scully served as their role model." That 63% of them not only used Scully as an inspiration, but a trailblazer for the field they went into. It was that confidence that they got from the character to believe that they could succeed in a field that was prior male-dominated.

Though, I will say this, you need to give credit where credit is due. There was another female FBI agent before Scully that probably spearheaded the whole idea a little first before the tinfoil hat series came on the air. And that was Clarice from Silence of the Lambs. played by Jodie Foster. Just making sure that Jodi was even more of a figure head important person in our generation than ever before.

As you can see, all these characters helped create a far better image to the whole FBI and even though President Trump is currently shitting on the merit of the agency and the harsh reality that everything you see on TV is just some sort of hyper fake dream compared to how boring and filled with paper work the actual job at the FBI is, I do think that we should take a moment to realize and come to terms with the fact that these characters did a lot in changing the image of a job and introduced a lot of females to the field that they previously had no concept that they could possibly fit in to.