Why don’t hollywood dudes just admit they all have the same boring reporter lady kink like at least we can work from there

Truly I do not know what it is with male showrunners/screenwriters/etc. being so mouth-breathingly obsessed with the dramatics of a good journalism story but then somehow they are also simultaneously unable to conceive of a single way for a Female character achieve any modicum of success without involving sex?????? 

It’s like the idea of being a reporter…