It’s reduced to shows about gay men snapping and “throwing shade” and looking for femininity in model-hunting programs where the winner is validated according her looks with little consideration of her character content. Presentations of femininity in modern media are limited to gay men in drag behaving badly and heterosexual women dressed to the nines only to cut each other down trying to get the last jab. Femininity is considered a weakness by both heterosexual and homosexual males and gets parodied as such.
Unfortunately, femininity seems to be written off as a bad thing because the media tends to be male-dominated and masculinity-obsessed. Part of this is due, perhaps, to insecurities around gender expression for all of us, regardless of orientation.
The media has a tough time portraying masculinity and femininity in ways that are not cliché.
