that female characters don't get to have flaws when the male ones do.

I don't insist that the stuff I watch pass the Bechdel test, but I do insist that the entire female contingent not be describable as
- totally evil
- stupid
- lust-addled dupe
- the punchline

Joan tends towards the last. It's a sad thing to celebrate "hey, it's been three weeks since someone asked her to her face if she was a prostitute!"