Vegas, baby!

The FX show, The League, is a male dominated show about a fantasy football league made up of men who went to high school together over 10 years previously. The point of this show is actually for comedic purposes, while being centered on football and advice.
Masculinity has a huge emphasis in this show, being a show tailored thematically and comically for men. Football has a huge emphasis in masculinity that is more often than not translated to those who are merely fans as well. Often one of the characters, Andre, is ridiculed for his “metrosexuality”. This means that while he is straight, he considers his looks to be of a large importance. Often times the show goes a bit overboard on the sexual orientation jokes that are rampant in male inclined humor and sports. He is also picked on largely because he says annoying things and wears things like Ed Hardy.
Despite the humor and theme, the ladies are not unspoken for. Two of the five main characters have wives. While one is the standard “hot wife” who is a stay-at-home mother to their lovely and intelligent kid, the second wife is not nearly the same. While still being acknowledged as attractive, she is “one of the guys” and is adopted into the fantasy football league during season two, for she essentially runs her husband’s team for the first season and most of the second season. She is regarded as almost masculine, though it is never forgotten that she is, in fact, female.
In this particular episode, they are in Las Vegas for draft picks. While at a strip club, a standard demeaning place for women, they encounter a stripper who won her league in the previous year. The main characters use them entirely for football information and actually pay more for the strippers to keep their clothes on. After this happens, they have to vote whether to invite one of the member’s brother-in-law’s into the league, or the second “one of the guys” wife. She is ultimately not invited into the group, mainly out of fear that she is too knowledgeable.
Gender plays a large role in “The League”, while being very downplayed at the same time. It is there, and it is addressed, but it remains to be an extremely respectful show towards both genders. Women are not depicted as obnoxious or petty or weak, but rather the opposite. The show is clearly generated for men, the gender most commonly part of fantasy football leagues, though it does not disregard the fact that women can dominate the football field without actually being on it.