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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Thanks to our educational system, which is almost totally run by women with a feminist ideology, men today are more like eunuchs than males. It does not surprise me that we have programs that reflect this perverse condition. No doubt the program will attract women and homosexual viewers, but no masculine male will watch such garbage. Some of the effeminate males will find it attractive.
LOL. Well, true...but they can also be quite conniving and selfish.
Wait...they ARE men.
Just kidding!
I was thinking Perry Mason having 'issues' with his sexuality or Della Street being transgendered.
Especially in Home Depot commercials.
Mason would be matched up with a 99lb blond female assistant who is a martial arts expert capable of beating up 220lb male ex-cons, and a 187 IQ black Muslim computer genius.
His nemesises would be tongues-talking white supremacist right wing radio talk show hosts.
Actually it is a hierarchy, one that’s existed for a long time. Dating back at least to Shakespeare one of the major focuses of western humor has been tearing down the people in charge. The hierarchy is there to be mocked, the reason white males are the target so often is because white males are still primarily the ones in charge, the only way it’s changing is if we stop being the ones in charge, or there’s a major change in the concept of western humor.
“A lot of people think this is a joke, but it’s not.”
No, it sure isn’t.
I started noticing about 7 years ago that white men/fathers were always portrayed as stupid and incompetent. Women and minorities were always portrayed as much smarter.
Pretty strong bias in almost everything coming out of Hollywood.
A better show is Carpoolers, on ABC. I watch almost no episodic TV but happened to catch an episode of this show and now I am a fan. The 4 lead guys are all very flawed but their wives also are seen as too controlling or having their own dysfunctional problems. So far it has not been a typical PC type show, and it is quite funny IMO.
Duly noted during one of the NFL playoff games earlier this year by one of my very liberal white male pals. Even he gets it.
I like the Discovery Channels, the Military Channel, and three of the music channels.
Well, pissing off the viewers gets them in a lot less trouble than pissing off feminist pressure groups...that's why. ;)
Having men always been the weaker sex? Can I get an A-Women!
The white male shall always be portrayed as a dunce.
As a white male, I am not sure you are right about that. Gissom is pretty damn smart on CSI. Jack Bower is smart on 24. I think that you are making an overstatement because you saw a show here and there that made you think that. I guess King of Queens had the guy silly, but he was pretty good to his wife.
Don’t ignore the series Westerns, like Hoppy, the Three Mesqiteers, etc. or the cavalry trilogy from John Ford and the Duke.
Try "The Unit" on CBS. Men being men with large caliber weapons. NCIS is fairly good too, but still a little girly at times. Other than that, I'd rather watch Bonanza.
In some, he is intentionally absent.
Don’t worry. Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, Britney Spears, and many others make women look like dunces, too.
But a TV show of men doing what men do would actually be boring.
How many times could you watch men watching sports and not saying a word to each other for a few minutes then eiter yell gleefully or groan in despair. Ok, occasionally I can see one man ask the other man if they have run out of beer.
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