Posted on 11/15/2007 9:00:20 AM PST by ConservativeStatement
"Big Shots," ABC's mostly-comedic take on male bonding, is a man's idea of a woman's idea of men. The show's heroes - each the head of a corporation - are adorable, sensitive, flawed, and yearning for love. And they're eager to talk about it. They gab about troubled relationships on the golf course, across the pool table, in the steam room at the gym. They buy each other drinks, and sometimes cars, for consolation.
It's a lot like "Sex and the City" for men, a comparison that surely came up when the show was pitched to network executives. Except that these characters aren't wrestling with empowerment so much as they're wallowing in victimhood. They're constantly beset by the women in their lives: badgering wives, cheating wives, fickle ex-wives, insidious ex-lovers.
This is the strange state of ABC's female-friendly Thursday night lineup: It has become a night of emasculated men and emasculating women. If the classic male pinup was the strong, silent, unattainable type, tonight's TV dream man is addled and fawning. And the empowered woman - once a happy departure from older stereotypes - has become not just self-sufficient, but kind of mean.
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Propaganda Directive 2:
The white male shall always be portrayed as a dunce.
Like "Sex in the City", huh? Is this one also written by homosexual men?
Another reason why I watch very little broadcast TV. The remainder of my TV entertainment comes from classic TV shows on DVD.
Wonder what version of Bigshots she’s watching, not the one I’m watching.
I’m sure it’s going to be a runaway smash hit.
“...TV shows on DVD...”
Yep my wife and I are watching Perry Mason-1st season and its great.
I have a new found respect for classic Western movies (Glenn Ford, Clint Eastwood, Randolph Scott...); I’ve seen many such films in the last few months.
Ugh! Writers: Please stay on strike.
I shudder to think what a new Perry Mason would look like.
I watched the premiere episode and was entertained, so I tuned in the following week. After that, I couldn’t stomach it anymore. I didn’t find any of the characters compelling or appealing in any way. I want men to be MEN!
Perry Mason: Special Criminal Victim’s Unit, or something like that.
IMO, one would have to have nothing going on in one’s life to be an avid watcher of network television....I watch Friday Night Lights but that’s about it. The Discovery channel gets the most airtime in my house.
Only on "the Unit" are the men portrayed as real men and the women as strong women.
“The white male shall always be portrayed as a dunce.”
A lot of people think this is a joke, but it’s not. White males will always be the brunt. It’s almost like a hierarchy. If you’re a member of one “protected” group, you may be the brunt, but only by one of similar status, or one who is the member of more than one protected group.
Take note one night of just the commercials and mark it down, you’ll be surprised....or not
I watch Supernatural on the CW. Don’t like the ads for most of their shows, but do like that. Sam and Dean do not seem at all weak.
They are men, habitually confused by the women in their lives and primarily driven by sex.
I don’t watch the propaganda machine very much at all.
To Hollywood:
Bite me!
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