''Ally McBeal'' blev kritiseret af nogle TV-kritikere og [[feminist]]er, som mente, at figuren Ally gengav et dårligt billede af karrierekvinder,<ref>Hammers, Michelle L. "Cautionary Tales of Liberation and Female Professionalism: The Case Against ''Ally McBeal''" ''Western Journal of Communication'' '''69''' 2, April (2005): 168. "The ease with which ''McBeal''{{'s}} depictions of women are reincorporated into dominant masculinist discourses ... is particularly problematic for professional women. The increased danger that co-optation poses for professional women is due to the complex ways in which the discursive sedimentation that surrounds the female body, particularly as it has been traditionally sexualized and linked to emotionality, operates as a barrier to women's full and effective participation in professional spheres. Thus, ''McBeal'' operates as a cautionary tale about the dangers presented by the co-optation of postfeminist and third-wave feminist discourses as they relate to current professional discourses surrounding the female body."</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,988616,00.html|title=Is Feminism Dead? (Chat Transcript – Phyllis Chesler) |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |date=29. juni 1998}}</ref> blandt andet på grund af Allys angivelige følelsesmæssige umodenhed.<ref name=inf>[https://www.information.dk/2002/12/lad-verden-vinde Lad ikke verden vinde. Artikel på information.dk 17. december 2002.]</ref> Det måske mest kendte udtryk for den debat om erhvervskvinder, som programmet skabte, var forsidebilledet på ''[[Time Magazine]]'' den 29. juni 1998, der viste McBeal overfor tre berømte amerikanske kvindesagskvinder ([[Susan B. Anthony]], [[Betty Friedan]] og [[Gloria Steinem]]) med teksten ''Is Feminism Dead?'' ("Er feminismen død?").<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=http://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19980629,00.html|title=Is Feminism Dead? |date=29. juni 1998 |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |language=en-us|access-date=24. februar 2018}}</ref>
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