"Female roles nowadays are either so bland as to be invisible or missing altogether. The careers of blowup dolls have more upside."
Judd Apatow, Adam McKay, and Mike White, as successful and funny as they are, are writing in this "weirdo guy gets the super foxy but passive hot girl" formula. While it is certainly not that recent a phenomena, weird-guy/hot-girl comedies have become the only successful comic form acceptable to studios. Bobby and Peter Farrelly were arguably the last writer director duo to (be allowed to) give their female characters a point of view and wit, despite the fact that their remake of The _Heartbreak Kid_ is a study in the vapid beauty milieu. Here is the article from the L.A. Times
Strangely enough, I found it on an Ask dot com search for Kristen Wiig. Other than her being a comedy actress, I'm not sure how contextual this result is.
