#wojciehowicz

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Barney Miller 101: The Squad

Barney: In charge of this chaos. Practical, kind, patient, protective of his people, worries about them and does his best to help them. Dad In Charge. Jewish. Morals are more important than the letter of the law because sometimes the law, and bureaucracy, is stupid. All-around good guy. Deserves better.

Fish: Been there done that got the aches and pains to show for it. Old and going to complain about it because he damn well deserves it. 120% done with this shit. Reluctantly married and 50% prunes and painkillers by weight.

Yemana: The most unlucky gambler ever to walk this earth, and yet he continues, undaunted. Once got his sideburn shot off. Worst coffee maker the planet has yet seen. Japanese. Sentenced to 25 to life in Filing in 1960 and hasn’t escaped yet.

Harris: Dapper As Fuck. Writer, spends more of his time trying to make money than almost anything else, and annoyed by all this crap. Does Not Care until he really does. Makes a shockingly good looking woman. Black and proud. Best Hair Award 45 yrs running.

Wojo: His full name is unspellable unless you’re Polish, accept it. Built like a brick house and eats like a horse. Former Marine and proud of it. A straightforward, nice boy who has the most character growth by a country mile and is trying really hard even if he doesn’t always understand. Squad Slut, total himbo. Also plays the flute and faints at needles.

Dietrich: 90% of his personality is Fun Facts, Dramatic Effect, and feeding off other people feeling awkward. Pedantic as hell, wit dry as fuck, puns always. His jokes are terrible. Obsessed with Goethe for some reason. Grows his own wheat in his apartment. Always has a definition ready. Intellectual Asshole but cute about it (it’s probably the glasses).

Chano: Passionate af. Dancer, Puerto Rican, loves his country, a silly boy. Once had to write a burglary report and had to write his own name under ‘Victim’. Loves playing secret agent. Broke down sobbing when he had to shoot a guy and needed a week off to recover. Loved wearing a dress for mugging detail completely unironically.

Wentworth: Gets combat fever like CRAZY oh my god do not get in her way. Survived a relationship with Wojo, sanity intact. Does not care what people think about her and focuses like a laser. Protective af, tiny and will fite you. (and you will lose.)

Batista: Don’t fuck with her. Even tinier than Wentworth and even more determined. More arrests than everyone else combined. Gets Shit Done.

Levitt: He’s short and he’s angry about it. Fluent in ASL, determined to make detective no matter what it takes. Frequently misunderstands because he is convinced that there is a trick to getting this damn promotion and there isn’t. Has the worst suits, bless him.

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max gail as stan "wojo" wojciehowicz in season five of barney miller

primetime emmy award nominee for outstanding supporting actor in a comedy series

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Jimmy Smits Vs. Hal Linden

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Jimmy Smits - (L.A. Law) - No text propaganda

Hal Linden - (Barney Miller) - He's in his 90s and Still Working. Plays classical clarinet. Warm, charming, gorgeous smile and salt and pepper hair. He's been in pretty much every TV show of the last 50 years at some point, and his career is almost old enough to officially retire even though he didn't start acting until he was 25. He's been a chairman for the March of Dimes for years. Carried the Olympic torch in 1984! Was nominated for an Emmy every year Barney Miller ran (8 times!). Lifelong Democrat, a total sweetheart and a knockout to boot. Barney Miller was a very important role in every way, and Hal Linden nailed it- he's a police captain who leads with compassion and kindness and leads a very diverse squad. Brooklyn 99 learned everything from Barney Miller.

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CW: Discussion of racism (video description: After Harris encounters racism, Barney tries to explain bigotry to Wojciehowicz.").

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#atozchallenge: Wojciehowicz

Max Gail as Det. Stan Wojciehowicz on the ABC sitcom Barney Miller (1975-1982). Source: sitcomsonline.com One of my favorite TV sitcoms has to be Barney Miller, which ran on the ABC (US) Television Network from 1975 to 1982. Barney Miller was set in the detective squad of the fictional 12th Precinct of the New York Police Department in Manhattan. The squad was led by Captain Miller, played by…

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There's barely any audience for this show but who cares! I love it anyways!

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Barney Miller - Det. Stan Wojciehowicz (Wojo)

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@eilupt gave me Garak/Bashir/Parmak pies for the 3 sentence prompt challenge

"So you're telling me," Garak says as he stares down at the little hound that Parmak is already scratching behind the ears, "that upon realizing your error, you were too embarrassed to confess you'd misunderstood?"

"Er... Something like that," Julian mumbles, scratching the back of his neck staring off into the distance with an awkward shuffle.

He doesn't dare tell them that he was too distracted by Lieutenant Wojciehowicz's lovely "eyes" to even consider the sign may have been written in anything other than Federation Standard.

(Note: "pies" in Polish is "dog" though it's pronounced differently)

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Women and Queerness in the Precinct in Barney Miller and Brooklyn 99

This week’s Kate Crehan’s “Culture” cites  anthropologist Joan Cassell’s research into female surgeons in the 1980s and their shared hardships in a field entrenched in male hegemonic practices struck a key comparison with the representation of women in “Pilot” (Brooklyn 99 S1E1*) and the lack thereof in “Evacuation” (Barney Miller S3E1). Like the job of a surgeon, the role of a police officer is also quintessentially male-gendered, and as Matthew A. Henry writes in “The Simpsons, Satire, and American Culture,” the setting of a police department is a “traditionally masculinized public space of the law” that even Marge Simpson, though completely capable if not superior to male peers in “The Springfield Connection” (S6E23), ultimately renounces to return to her “normal” state of female domesticity (Henry 94). Hence, there is a not only a preestablished sense of “boys only” in real-world law enforcement but also a cultural history of this attitude that bleeds into the genre of police sitcoms, an expectation that consciously ritualizes active male bonding and expresses bewilderment, distrust, and exclusion of female colleagues.

“Evacuation” exemplifies just this; the episode completely lacked female staffers, and the only representation that women received were in brief mentions of offscreen romantic interests and a boyishly dressed female orphan. Can I count the metallic figurine of Lady Justice on Sgt. Fish’s broken clock? Because that is how starved of female representation this storyline was.

The episode began with Fish attempting (and failing) to fix a clock, so he seeks Cpt. Miller for repair advice:

Barney: Clocks or women?

Fish: Pick one, and help me.

Barney: Send it to the jeweler?

Fish: Okay, but what about the clock?

It’s jokes like this in Barney Miller that not only objectify women and lampoon their materialism but also “other” them as emotional beings external to the workplace who affect if not distract men from the duties at hand. To a paranoid detective ‘Wojo’ Wojciehowicz worrying over rumors about an incoming hurricane and the logistical impossibility of evacuating 11 million New Yorkers, Cpt. Miller dismissively asks, “Did you have a fight with your girlfriend, Wojo?” Like so, all offscreen women are romantically related to the men somehow: Inspector Luger nudges Cpt. Miller to keep his affair with an unnamed female cashier a secret, and Sgt. Fish has a line where he phones his wife Bernice and rationalizes his plans for the weekend, “I had a tough week, and I had a crazy woman in my hands yesterday.”

That “crazy woman” is Shirley “Jilly” Pappalardo, a young female orphan reprimanded for selling goods stolen from a pawn shop. She arrives on scene garbed androgynously, sporting a top hat, pants, and a plaid shirt too big for her. Her entrance is followed by Beckman the custodian’s, who upon greeting, “Afternoon, gentlemen,” looks with bewilderment at Jilly and hesitatingly murmurs, “Ladies.” Despite her less than feminine appearance, she is still fully recognized and judged as female and hence seen bizarrely unbecoming, echoing Crehan’s statement that women in male-dominated spheres are interpreted “as wrong bodies in wrong place” (Crehan 56). Cpt. Miller similarly voices surprise at the gender of the thief and her criminal history, confiding in Sgt. Harris Jilly’s divergence from traditional female docility, “I’m afraid we’ve got a woman with a past.” It is noteworthy that Jilly herself also expresses her unwillingness to stay in the scene, and although this is largely due to her guilt, that she is the only female character present in this episode gives substance to the continuous social exclusion and enforced absence of women in the police setting.

It is thus unsurprising that in such an environment, Jilly is given little to no agency, a plight too familiar for wards of the court, but because she is the only female in a male-centric episode, her inability to effectuate her own decisions and desires helps illuminate the ever-present male hegemony in the police force that marginalizes women and coerces their compliance. This is evidenced when Jilly begs Fish not to send her back to the children’s home, only for him brusquely reply, “If I could take it, you can too,” and he rebuffs her insinuated plea for adoption. All her attempts to befriend Fish end up with him snubbing her, and he clearly expresses a strong aversion towards her efforts at intimacy . Seemingly having lost a battle, she nevertheless exits the episode with a dry quip:

As much as I laughed at this, Fish’s gruff response is clearly problematic, laden with the misogynistic comparison of women to literal waste. However, it is worth noting that in this one-liner is an embedded implication that women haven’t been completely expelled from the scene yet, and he unwittingly acknowledges their continual persistence to enter and stay in the “system,” a word loaded with polyvalence. System can signify the biological digestive system Fish refers to, the legal system that Jilly as an orphan on probation feels imprisoned in, the larger sociopolitical system of law enforcement, a field dominated by masculinist doctrine in which women have to struggle to be judged as equally competent as their male peers — or the even larger system of police sitcoms as a male-coded genre. So though Barney Miller as a police comedy conveys a sense of phallocentrism in its near absence of women, that Jilly leaves the scene with this statement stands out for me because it subversively assures that the historical lack of female representation in the police setting, despite Fish’s surly chauvinism, will not stay that way.

And if anything, the first episode of Brooklyn 99, a police sitcom about a precinct in modern-day New York City, testifies to that.

The women of Brooklyn 99: detectives Amy Santiago (top) and Rosa Diaz (middle) and civilian administrator Gina Linetti (bottom)

Out of the seven members of the main cast, three are women, two of whom are Latina and completely differentiable characters. Amy Santiago is a smart, ambitious detective who dreams of being captain one day and thus idolizes her mentor, the baritone-voiced, openly gay, stoic guardian of the precinct, Cpt. Raymond Holt. A character foil to the reckless detective Jake Peralta (whom she dates later on), Amy is a perfectionist who loves grammar and binders and attends nerdy puzzle camps, and because she comes from a family of seven brothers, she always goes to lengths to prove her toughness, ultimately fortifying the idea that women who survive the grueling process of socialization to qualify into male-oriented power structures, internalize a “good deal of the macho martial ethos of their profession” (Crehan 38).

However, Amy’s toughness — or that of any character in the show, including Sgt. Terry Jeffords played by the very masculine Terry Crews — hardly reaches the peak ruggedness of detective Rosa Diaz. Rosa, almost always garbed in leather jackets (her formal one doesn’t have blood on it), is in Jeffords’s own words, “scary, violent, tough.” Like Cpt. Holt, she hardly ever smiles, and both exhibit emotional stuntedness in inappropriate situations for comedic effect. She is often violent towards slowly working technology, carries a multitude of weaponry, is well-versed in the art of gymnastics and comebacks, and enjoys a fervent need for total privacy. However, we learn that her masculine, martial ethos is only skin-deep: she studied ballet, loves old films, and has a heart of gold when it comes to protecting her friends.

Gina Linetti is the ultimate friend in the office, although she prides herself on her aloofness. A civilian administrator, she has “her ear to the ground,” aware of all the inner workings of the precinct as well as its connections on social media and hence a valued advisor to Cpt. Holt. Unlike the two other women, she retains a strong sense of femininity that complements her powerful assertiveness in the office, which is ironic considering that she is not a ranking officer and regularly engages in acts of unprofessionalism such as throwing paperwork away, not looking up from her phone at the most inappropriate of times, and dancing everywhere and anywhere. Nevertheless, she is one of the most intelligent and resourceful characters in the show, and she is as confident as she is quoteworthy with some of the best lines from the show like, “My mother cried the day I was born because she knew she would never be better than me.” She is, as in her own words, the human form of the 100 emoji.

Clearly, all three women have distinctive personalities, aspirations, character depth, and styles of humor that pose a stark contrast to the lack of female representation in Barney Miller. The women’s competency in their profession is never challenged and equal to that of their male colleagues; in fact, “Pilot” and the rest of season 1 involve Jake and Amy mutually struggling to win a bet to obtain the most lawful arrests, indicating equal talent and competitiveness. The women are never seen as alien to the police setting but as powerful, problem-solving forces of teamwork strength and willpower within it. Jake, the white masculine protagonist, may have found the culprit in the end of the episode, but it is Charles and Rosa who check the culprit putting a gun to Jake’s head and Amy who chases after the criminal and restrains him with a hit via baton. Lastly, the women forge strong platonic bonds with each other throughout the seasons and make sure to ally themselves against social hardships of the workplace, such as underestimations, objectification, and stereotypical generalizations regularly expected for a woman working in a traditionally male-dominated profession.

In other words, the gender equality of this show does not mean it erases the ever-present and real marginalization of women in law enforcement; rather, it confronts acts of prejudice and actively rejects them, acknowledges the historic liminality of women and queer people and brings them to exposure, admits a keen self-awareness into the sociopolitical power dynamics of the workplace and by extension, the genre of police sitcoms itself. For example, in this episode, it is the women who are eager to know the identity of the new arriving captain (revealed to be Cpt. Holt) whereas the male characters initially show indifference. Upon meeting Holt, Amy declares a love for his strictness, Rosa calls him cool, and Gina praises his laconic demeanor as “so suave,” and that these compliments about a gay captain specifically come from the female officers in the episode ultimately evinces their affinity with a leader who possesses the shared experience and trauma of struggling to obtain a position of power in the white, heteronormative, masculine hegemony of law enforcement. As Cpt. Holt simply puts,

The NYPD was not ready for an openly gay detective. But then the old guard died out, and suddenly they couldn’t wait to show off the fact that they had a highly ranking gay officer. I made captain. But they put me in a public affairs unit. I was a good soldier. I helped recruitment. But all I ever really wanted was my own command. And now, I finally got it. And I’m not gonna screw it up.

This espousal of the importance of representation in the workplace is also relevant to representation in the changing genre of police sitcoms itself, especially given the political baggage of police as a contemporary cultural subject. When compared to the dearth of actresses and queer representation in Sgt. Miller’s precinct, the diversity of the 99th bears witness to the fact that when more people of marginalized groups enter spaces of visibility, the culture and “all the social elements which share the same mode of thinking and acting” can and will inevitably change from within — in Brooklyn 99’s case, substantially for the better (Crehan 59). Because if Barney Miller upheld dichotomized gender roles and deemed the police precinct as a masculine-coded environment due to the often physically taxing job of law enforcement, Brooklyn 99 attacks that gender-essentialist assumption and argues that fighting crime, filing paperwork, cleaning up the city, and saving lives aren’t careers specific to heroes of a particular culture. Rather, it touts that the inclusion of people identifying with different races, genders, and sexualities can shape and create new forms of culture around us that effect social progress, and that this plasticity and constant cultural evolution of a workplace within fiction can debilitate the gender-codedness of the police sitcom genre itself. Thus, Holt’s monologue readily and reflexively applies itself to the show on which it’s presented. Brooklyn 99 has got itself strong, realistic policewomen led by a black gay commanding officer, and it’s not gonna screw it up.

*: Because the 5th season of Brooklyn 99 premieres on Tuesday, September 26, I’ve selected 2 episodes that eloquently explore the inter workings of race, gender, and sexuality in the police precinct, S1E1’s “Pilot” and S4E16’s “Moo-Moo,” to serve as subject matter for my blog entries for this and next week.

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Wojo has no boundaries when it comes to chasing criminals.

THE MAN JUMPED INTO THE EAST RIVER AFTER A PERP.

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40 years of Roe; Cardinal Dolan leads mass before prayer vigil

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40 years of Roe; Cardinal Dolan leads mass before prayer vigil

http://twitter.com/#!/fatherjonathan/status/293703266817150977

Amen.

Something evil this way came: Today is the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that resulted in robed judges legalizing the killing of innocent unborn children. The more than fifty million lives lost since that decision have no graves to mark their passing. They cannot speak for themselves, as their lives were snuffed out before they could even take their very first breaths. They died lacking even the simple dignity of a human touch. No one was able to hold their tiny, innocent hands, coursing with life’s blood, as that life left their tiny bodies in the womb that was meant to be a safe haven.

They have been forever silenced. We must speak for them. And this morning, Cardinal Dolan did. National Review’s Kathryn Jean Lopez reports from the service.

https://twitter.com/kathrynlopez/status/293688960599867392

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After the mass, a prayer procession begins on the streets of New York City.

https://twitter.com/kathrynlopez/status/293698959027871744

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Twitter users are also marking Roe’s anniversary.

https://twitter.com/toddstarnes/status/293705406851727362

https://twitter.com/toddstarnes/status/293705567812333569

https://twitter.com/toddstarnes/status/293706511417503744

Amen.

https://twitter.com/heyLauraFreed/status/293702450613997568

Media outlets spin. How low must one go to spin such a horrifying thing?

https://twitter.com/valentinebilly/status/293578934522609664

But that doesn’t push a false narrative or an agenda. An agenda that seeks to devalue life. Because, empowerment. Or something.

https://twitter.com/wbdnewton/status/293359597262094336

Indeed. Also weeping today are women who have had abortions. The regret, guilt and pain that they feel over that decision will last their lifetimes.

https://twitter.com/TN_SmartGirl/status/293703892292747264

You are in our prayers. This is For the Women ™?

https://twitter.com/Wojciehowicz/status/293130794967396352

Women’s rights are not predicated on a legal ability to kill their own children. Those who claim that, including alleged feminists, do not empower women. In fact, they degrade and demean women by devaluing motherhood, and life itself. Our hands are stained with the blood of the 50 million lives lost.

https://twitter.com/Gabby_Hoffman/status/293024194998968320

https://twitter.com/e_whipit/status/293710685593038848

Matt Drudge recently reminded us of a normal day. A normal day, when 3,500 innocent lives are snuffed out at, and for, someone else’s convenience. Those voices … more than 50 million voices so far … are forever silenced. The screams of those innocent babies are unheard.

Ours cannot be.

Update:

https://twitter.com/SenTedCruz/status/293731182556889090

Read more: http://twitchy.com/2013/01/22/something-evil-this-way-came-40-years-of-roe-cardinal-dolan-leads-mass-before-prayer-vigil/

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Barney Miller (1975-1983) ♥

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New #hoboken tweet. @harrysiegel @painter_nancy It's called federalism. It's called democracy. It's called rule by the people. Los Ange… https://t.co/X3ziWW8BmK

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@Wojciehowicz: @TravisGarland @notbatmanyet Seriously? I hate fixing them. Always covered in gunk. Good going.

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From TV's "Barney Miller", Detective Stan "Wojo" Wojciehowicz, the actor Max Gail. He's also been in a million other things including "42". #maxgail #barneymiller #wojo (at Hilton Parsippany)

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India decides to tell its adolescents that boys can cry and same-sex love is normal

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“A boy can cry to give vent to his feelings. He can also be soft-spoken or shy. Being rude and insensitive is not a sign of masculinity,” reads the instruction manual of a health kit issued by the Indian government.

There’s more. “Adolescents frequently fall in love. They can feel attraction for a friend or any individual of the same or opposite sex…”

Now, this is unprecedented, inspiring and perhaps long overdue.

SEE ALSO: ELLE’s new video challenging gender stereotypes is going viral for all the right reasons

For India, a country where sexual activity between members of the same gender is illegal, it is a huge deal when the government makes these statements.

In a move praised by Indians on social media, the country’s Health Ministry has decided to spread gender health awareness among youngsters by issuing resource kits that contain positive and sensitive messages as above, the Indian Express reported.

More than 260 million adolescents are expected to benefit from this through a network of 0.7 peer educators known as ‘saathiya’ (companions). Their main aim is to bust myths around gender behavior and spread awareness on gender health.

And Indians are already raving about it.

This is amazing. Well done Health Ministry! Targeted gender sensitization of adolescents has begun. https://t.co/FrqPUiUBxn

Meghnad (@Memeghnad) February 21, 2017

“.it emphasises consent and respect.” a wonderful initiative, hope its implemented properly. #EVAW #gender #equalityhttps://t.co/w09nldVIH3

kriti agarwal (@kritisays) February 24, 2017

Indian Govt: Same-sex attraction is OK, boys can cry, girls no means nohttps://t.co/NpIsvdFy47

Wow, this is a HUGE deal! cc @Wojciehowicz http://pic.twitter.com/4KjBHX9OyI

Anamika (@AnaMyID) February 21, 2017

Excellent developments #GOI #Saathiya Adolescent Ed Same-sex attraction is OK, boys can cry, girls no means no https://t.co/91xpLMLaXW http://pic.twitter.com/mD9PcB4TLy

Ravi Karkara (@ravikarkara) February 21, 2017

Sensitive work by the GoI. Well done …#Dontbacktrack Same-sex attraction is OK, boys can cry, girls no means no https://t.co/txWYRROVtW

Harini Calamur (@calamur) February 21, 2017

This, from the health ministry, is brilliant. (Fingers crossed that some regressive fuckheads don’t fight this) https://t.co/SJTYDnsDHu

Rohan (@mojorojo) February 21, 2017

Wow! I’m so impressed at the progressiveness of this manual for educators by the Ministry of Health. https://t.co/0FCHGYVQ39

Asmita (@asmitaghosh18) February 21, 2017

Health Ministrys kit for adolescents marks a paradigm shift for a relatively conservative govt https://t.co/8GJMG7efjN http://pic.twitter.com/XSo9pXxQD9

The Editor News (@TheEditorNews) February 22, 2017

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