Viewers of TNT’s original series Major Crime on Wednesday night might want to relax while the team solves a case, but it wouldn’t be possible without Captain Sharon Raydor. Shrewd at the art of making a deal, she can connect a crime to a criminal and convince them to make a confession by making a deal. Her deal making skills is an example of female character on TV who shows another empowering tool women can use in everyday life.
As the world turns, most people assume those folks in the squad rooms across America are male. Even on TV, the number of interrogations rooms breaking down criminals are predominantly male. Obviously, that’s changing and Raydor’s character proves that women are more than capable of making deals and driving home results.
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On TNT, Sharon Raydor was first introduced to the viewers as Sergeant Raydor of Internal Affairs.
Played by the extremely talented actress, Mary McDonnell, the character truly represents an intelligent older woman who is contributing to the community by using deal making techniques to get bad guys off the streets. This crime solving character grew on viewers over the series as she not only followed the laws, but enforced them fairly. After the show ended, the spin-off, Major Crimes, put her in charge of the squad unit of Major Crimes in Los Angeles.
Watching the show, viewers will immediately pick up how Captain Raydor is such a shrewd deal maker. Ultimately catches criminals and gets a confession (avoiding filling the court system). Not one to resort to tactics outside of the laws, it is a combination of her carefully trained eye, her subtle demand for respect and leading a good team that gets the bad guys every time. She is never one to shy away from striking a deal, even if it’s a tad bit strange, to seal the deal.
Loving her job and knowing that she can make deals to catch the criminals, Captain Sharon Raydor is confident in her deal making skills. Strong and undaunting, the approach she uses isn’t anything more than being objective and shrewd. Empowering herself in a job that demands
results. One skill that often is overlooked when discussing female empowerment is the art of deal-making. Women sometimes shy away from making deals in their personal and professional lives. They don’t feel they will be taken seriously. Or it’s just not comfortable. Trapped in the mirror of always being sugar and spice (and everything nice) it’s definitely not a traditional trait. What Sharon Raydor reminds fans (and women worldwide) is that takes time to acquire the right skills to be a dealmaker, but it’s not impossible. And every woman who wants to feel empowered needs to perfect these skills, be confident and go out into the world and get what she desires!
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The 'Standard' of the 'Standard'. The "Chivalrous" Treatment of the Female Offender in the Arms of the Criminal Justice System: A Review of the Literature. Social Problems, 23(3), 350-357. Coughenour, J. Separate and Unequal: Women in the Federal Criminal Justice System. JSTOR.com - "The New York Times" N.p., n.d. Web.
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show he was an honest man but he didn't have much use for a navy