This type of anti-parent, anti-societal rule behavior is also seen in some of the cartoons for the little ones. Mom and Dad are portrayed as morons and the kids are rude and extremely disrespectful. Over the years, I have forced myself to watch the programs and monitor which cartoons are appropriate or not.
” Mom and Dad are portrayed as morons and the kids are rude and extremely disrespectful. “
Commercials - and not just for kids’ products - are the worst offenders.. Not only do they portray the Kids Rule the World meme as ‘normal’, but they are ubiqitous - more often aired multiple times in Prime Time than limited to Saturday Morming Cartoons...
I take it one step further and see even more disrespect towards the father than the mother. Dad is often portrayed as a bumbling, aloof, clueless goofball while Mom’s the one that holds everything together.
Father hasn’t been the true head of the household in the entertainment world for a long time, and I truly believe it has had an effect on our culture.
Most of the Disney films of the 60’s showed the parents, school & town officials and business leaders as buffoons or worse. It was always the teenagers and the local eccentric who saved the day.
Message: Anyone in authority was inept or not trustworthy.
Andy Griffith, Father Knows Best, Leave It to Beaver were about the last shows I remember which did not follow this Disney pattern.