Mariska Hargitay on Law and Order SVU [View All]

[Maddy McCall]

Anyone notice that the producers seem to be attempting to give her a "softer" image?

I liked her better when she was a tough cookie with a pixie haircut. This season she has shoulder-length hair and it seems writers are going beyond what is necessary to show viewers that she is hetero (i.e. at the beginning of the show, she is called to go investigate a murder; she gets out of bed, and a guy breathlessly tells her, "You were wonderful.")

Were the show's producers afraid that we viewers might have thought she was a lesbian, and if so, so WHAT?