In an episode of Roseanne, Dan and Roseanne are in the kitchen. Dan says something she doesn't like and she smacks him in the back of the head with an iron skillet. The audience roared with laughter. Now, flip the script. They are in Dan's workshop, she says something he doesn't like and he smacks her upside the head with a pipe wrench. NOBODY would have laughed and the show would have been cancelled the night the episode aired. Double standards abound.
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Not Al....Al was a warning for us. He dropped gems and the show actively portrayed how stupid feminism was with Marcie and why its important to choose carefully or youll end up with a leech like Peggy. Al was the man who was trapped and woke up when it was too late.
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My ENTIRE existence women have whined about the evils of a double standard. Turns out it's NOT a double standard they hate. Just the ones that don't benefit them.
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Even in my blue pill days as a teenager, I was really annoyed with how Ray Romano’s character was an emasculated dad terrified of his wife. That show really was, in my opinion, the worst display of the emasculated dad trope.
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I’m so glad someone else is realizing this. I’ve been talking about this for years.
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To be fair Al Bundy had some very enlightening moments on Married with Children. Him explaining to Marcy why men drink alcohol, his life lessons talking to Bud and Kelly, his dealings with angry feminists in the shoe store. Also, his reminding the family that family comes first no matter how much you hate each other, blood is thicker than water. It's all there but very slight of hand type of stuff.
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Bundy shouldn't be on this list .. he wasn't the bumbling idiot dad like the rest, he was just sick of all the stupidity around him... The others were conditioning, he was revealing...
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Absolutely spot on! This is why men are checking out of society itself.
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Even if women and society do repent from the blatant misandry we KNOW how they truly feel about us
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Anyone remember Malcolm in the Middle, the father, Hal, is always portrayed as incompetent while his wife Lois is this ball busting disciplinarian.
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They say "It's just a TV show and you have the right to change the channel or turn it off" or "Come on, men have mistreated women for centuries. Be patient and wait a few thousand years". How many times have you heard stuff like that whenever men complain?
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Yep. Us men just aren’t getting the respect and positive reinforcement we deserve. And without positive feedback we are stuck in a negative feedback loop, which further demoralizes us from trying. Society needs massive changes
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And despite all this, we STILL are better than women at inventing, building and maintaining society. Cheers to us, the true bosses.
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My 4th grade teacher called telivisions "Idiot Boxes". I was offended at his idea at first, but as I grew up, I found he was completely correct and his slure term was actually putting it mildly.
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It's one thing for men to be portrayed as buffoons in the media, but then there's the other portrayals of men that are just as bad if not worse. You had the "scrubs" song in the 90's, the music video of Nicki Minaj cutting a banana in half to symbolize something. Ozzy's wife who said something along those same lines. Looksism towards males in the media, yet body positivity for females. Actually, looksism has a huge role to play in how males are portrayed. Only the best looking are portrayed with positive character traits. The lower you go down the looks rank, the worse the male character is portrayed. The underlying programming it creates is that unless he looks like a model, he's not worthy of being treated with respect, dignity or trust and is in fact deserving of the opposite. And they wonder why so many men are checking out? Not that they care until it slowly starts to affect them, that is society (women, the government and big corporations).
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Oh, I noticed this YEARS ago. It was already painfully obvious in the 1990’s. Thankfully, I grew up watching reruns of “Leave it to Beaver”, “Father Knows Best”, and “My Three Sons”, along with “The Rifleman”, “Gunsmoke”, etc. The difference was obvious to me as a kid, even back then. I concluded that men were the only permitted targets for the butt of any joke, because of “political correctness”, and that was 100% true. Naive and ignorant as I was, I didn’t ascribe any malice to the cultural shift, but now I know better. The frog has jumped out of the pot.
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This goes back over 70 years. You forgot The Honeymooners with Ralph Kramden always getting outsmarted by his wife, Alice.
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We live in what I like to call the Shadow Matriarchy. Women (majority of voters) pick men to lead who pass laws to protect and empower women at the expense of men. This also acts as a smoke screen they can point at and say "see, we live in a Patriarchy." By definition we do not live in a world where the laws benefit men over women. I want our society and legal systems treat all humans equally, no regard to biological differences, but that's not likely to happen in my lifetime.
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This is why I watch Leave it to Beaver and Andy Griffith. The father's are respected role models.
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MenNeedToBeHeard
Today I want to talk about what I consider to be the biggest issue men face in today’s society, mostly because it effects all the other issues directly. And that issue is how men, boys and fathers are portrayed in the media.
For the last 50 years, men haven’t been leaders or role models on TV, we’ve been the punchline. Think about it. Homer Simpson. Peter Griffin. Al Bundy. Ray Romano. The dad in every cereal commercial, who can’t pour milk without spilling half the carton on the table.
The father in every sitcom, who’s portrayed as a lazy, clueless buffoon who’d probably starve if his wife didn’t “save him” from himself. And people laugh because that’s the point right?
Men aren’t something to be admired, they’re something to be mocked, ridiculed and made fun of all under the guise of comedy. Ya know it’s just “harmless fun.”
But here’s the thing: it’s not harmless. It’s conditioning.
When you mock men and boys long enough, people stop respecting them. Boys grow up seeing “dad” as a joke, and they internalize it. Girls grow up seeing men portrayed as incompetent, and they expect it.
You can’t saturate culture with “men are idiots” for half a century and then act surprised when nobody takes men seriously.
The truth is Hollywood and the media in general has been running a decades-long smear campaign dressed up as comedy. And it’s worked.
Think about it: when was the last time you saw a positive portrayal of a husband or father on TV? One who was competent, respected, and not the butt of the joke?
You probably can’t name more than one or two.
Instead, the formula is always the same in every movie, every TV series, hell even in every commercial
· It’s smart wife, dumb husband.
· Independent daughter, loser son.
· Mom saves the day, dad ruins it.
Every. Single. Time.
Now, imagine flipping that script.
Imagine if every mom on TV for 50 years was portrayed as a nagging airhead who couldn’t hold a job, couldn’t manage her kids, and had to be rescued by a man in every episode.
Would that be “harmless fun” too?
Or would it be called exactly what it is…sexist?
That’s the double standard men face all day, every day literally from the day they’re born till the day they die
The ones that says when it’s women, it’s “empowerment.”
When it’s men, it’s “comedy.”
But here’s the truth: comedy isn’t just comedy when it’s used to shape perception.
Media has power. It tells us what’s normal, what’s respected, and what’s disposable.
And for decades, men have been the disposable joke.
So here’s the real question: How many more generations of boys do we lose before we admit this isn’t funny anymore?
How much longer are we going to sit back in silence as men and boys unalive themselves because they’ve been marginalized, been told they aren’t worthy of any kindness, caring or consideration?
It’s gone on for far too long and it’s time we called it out for what it is
So let me ask you: Which show, ad, or movie made you roll your eyes the hardest at how men were portrayed and how did/does it make you feel?
Let me know in the comments!
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