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What you have instead, as women become more educated, earn higher incomes, and thus more choosy in their potential mates, and as America becomes increasingly urbanized, secular, and educated, is a collection of frustrated beta males who cannot cope with the new order. And thus they will blame "feminists" or some other boogeywoman.
PS: Homosexual males do not count.
I agree. I've gotta ask: what's wrong with men and women becoming more psychologically androgynous? I would think that being psychologically androgynous would be a great evolutionary adaptation since someone in the middle would have the best masculine and feminine qualities.
Contrast it with this... could you ever measure up? Is your marriage perfectly reasonable at all times? Did this dad ever have a bad day or even the slightest character flaw?
Robert Young in real life was a hard core alcoholic who committed suicide. He was an actor merely playing a role on a TV show and his character was not a real person. I think most adults back then knew the difference between TV and reality, and most still do (although a scary number don't). OTOH, children saw such shows and got their whole perspective on life warped.
I was thinking about this recently. And it led me to some questions. Why is it that anyone who has a problem with homosexuality or homosexual behavior is jumped for being a bigot and told to quit being a homophobe because it is completely natural to be homosexual and no one should be viewed as different because of it. Then it is often the same people who despise masculinity, especially any white man with an alpha male personality. Alpha males are far more prevelant and obvious in the animal kingdom, yet this is not good enough for those who despise a man who behaves in that manner.
So which is it? Do we support people acting the way nature programmed them to? Or do we admonish them and force them change? If so, who gets to decide which natural behaviors are acceptable and which need to be changed?
Following your logic path with rigid stereotypes in mind, that would mean you're gay for being attracted to a masculine woman. Perhaps men and women aren't as 2 dimensional, or would you rather stick with your story? Don't get me wrong now, it's OK if you are, I just prefer people be truthful.
Well cheer up NV. Your kids now know what they can be grateful for when real dad is far more palatable than a cartoon who trades his son for a beer.
Contrast it with this... could you ever measure up? Is your marriage perfectly reasonable at all times? Did this dad ever have a bad day or even the slightest character flaw? How 'real' is an asexual couple with 3 children? What kind of dad are you if your family can't afford such an immaculate house?
"Father Knows Best" was at least giving us ideals to live up to. I'm sick of seeing disgusting displays of dysfunctional families with cursing, bad parenting, selfishness, adultry, alcoholism, anything goes mentality. At least during prime time. Lets give back to kids some presentation of morality and decency to live up to. And no, families won't always live up to it, but at least there is a role model for it, something to strive for. And its a good lesson to realize that WE aren't always perfect. Homer Simpson, The Family Guy and all the rest of them are disgusting role models. And unfortunatley, many kids don't have much better at home and then have no better to find on T.V. and in the media. Who do these poor kids have as a good role model? No one. Sad.
Homer Simpson, The Family Guy and all the rest of them are disgusting role models. And unfortunatley, many kids don't have much better at home and then have no better to find on T.V. and in the media. Who do these poor kids have as a good role model? No one. Sad.
Who in the world is looking to Homer Simpson or Peter Griffin on Family Guy as a role model? They are fricking cartoons for chrissakes? Even a 8-year-old knows the difference--do you really think some goofy cartoon dad written for laughs is influencing the current state of American male parenting?
Who in the world is looking to Homer Simpson or Peter Griffin on Family Guy as a role model? They are fricking cartoons for chrissakes? Even a 8-year-old knows the difference--do you really think some goofy cartoon dad written for laughs is influencing the current state of American male parenting?
Yep. Its the "normalizing" of certain behaviors and lowering the bar. Do you have any kids? Do you ever hear them talk on the playground? Kids imitate. That's how they learn. Unfortunately, many kids don't have good role model dads at home. And yes they look at cartoons to emulate too.
"Father Knows Best" was at least giving us ideals to live up to.
That a relatively small number of people lived up to even in the 1950s. Certainly the cast of the show didn't live up to those ideals in real life. They were actors and actresses playing roles.
The 1950s TV sitcom that probably came the closest to reflecting reality at the time was The Honeymooners, and it's no coincidence that it holds up better than Father Knows Best does.
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I'm sick of seeing disgusting displays of dysfunctional families with cursing, bad parenting, selfishness, adultry, alcoholism, anything goes mentality.
If there had been less censorship back then you would've seen it then. 1950s America did love the movies based on Tennessee Williams' plays which presented pretty much the polar opposite of what shows like Father Knows Best and Beaver depicted, even if those films were tamer than what was in the plays due to the Hays Code.
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At least during prime time. Lets give back to kids some presentation of morality and decency to live up to.
IMO those shows did warp an entire generation of kids who actually thought they were real, and did much more damage than the TV shows of that era that the censors wanted to ban like The Untouchables or various westerns, mainly because kids wouldn't have confused those shows with their reality. (I'm not advocating that the family sitcoms should've been censored or banned, just that they should've been balanced out by different material.)
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Homer Simpson, The Family Guy and all the rest of them are disgusting role models.
LOL! That reminds me of Saddam Hussein's propaganda broadcasts to US troops during the Gulf War: "while you're out here fighting, your girlfriend is sleeping with Bart Simpson"
There are still good role models for kids, you just have to go out and find them.
Yep. Its the "normalizing" of certain behaviors and lowering the bar. Do you have any kids? Do you ever hear them talk on the playground? Kids imitate. That's how they learn. Unfortunately, many kids don't have good role model dads at home. And yes they look at cartoons to emulate too.
Then explain how come the generation that grew up watching Father Knows Best had the highest rates of divorce ever while the generation that grew up watching the Simpsons(it's been on for over 20 years now--I was watching it when I was 9, now I'm 30) now has the lowest rates of divorce since the 1960s.
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