I don’t watch television and strictly controlled it with my kids, usually finding myself having to have them sit through another history lesson on why this or that really doesn’t happen in the real world. Actually it wasn’t so bad, (for them, I like to talk about history) I usually liked to quiz my kids on their impressions of shows like that. So now I have three radical feminists. Job one accomplished. Ironically my son claims that he has the best handle on this feminist thing and can see the patriarchy’s seams a million miles away. And I tried so damn hard to not let the patriarchy spoil his fragile mind! But it creeps in, he sees himself superior and has no problem defending his position. White patriarchy disease.

I saw an episode of Honeymooners a few years ago for the first time and I had to turn it off. I couldn’t watch one more minute of that fat pig screaming at his wife. I Love Lucy, Gilligan’s Island, Star Trek (yes I know many like to claim that Star Trek was so far ahead because there was a black women who was like a sexy secretary), the list goes on, well just about everything on tv makes my mind twist up in knots of rage and hatred at such a popular media of patriarchy schoolery.

I work as a contractor and I love especially to get out in the field and do framing. A 22 oz. framing hammer on a 2x whilst thinking of some moron patriarchal twit I read or hear about really gets the work done fast. We are starting a job later this month and the Alito hearings have gotten me all warmed to do that two story addition frame-up.

I love this blog!

As for the content–well, look, be fair. Yes, the “women really have the power, just from backseat” meme is old as the hills, but how many shows did you have where that power extended to actually being able to turn hubby into a newt? And if Samantha was too internalized-whatever to make full use of her powers, her mother and evil twin showed no such hesitancies toward “Darwood.”

(”I Dream of Jeanie” was not at all in the same category, as Jeannie, magically gifted or not, was a ditz, and really wasn’t all that powerful. After all the chick lives in a *bottle* for crissake. and, well, “Master…” Oh, and she has no female allies or friends; they’re all rivals. Oh, I could go on for a whole thesis’ worth, let me tell you).

and back to the original point: yes “I Love Lucy” was often repulsive, brilliant comic bits like “Vitameatavegamin” and the chocolate factory notwithstanding. Interestingly, according to the wiki article on DA (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desi_Arnaz), the show was originally pitched as more reflective of their actual lives, that is, both husband and wife were show-biz successes and were struggling to keep a normal marriage together in spite of (both) their glamourous lives; but “market research indicated that this scenario would not be popular.”

bwahahahaha! oy, have YOU got the wrong number.

You know, every time I come across a man who thinks like that–specifically, the “little princess” bit–I think to myself, there goes another poor soul who only ever wanted to be petted and comforted and told he was sweet and special. everyone coos and makes a fuss over little sis; she’s so PRETTY, she doesn’t have to DO anything, all she ever has to do is CRY and everyones loves her, what about MY feelings, huh, huh, HUH?

yep, men are victims too. in more ways than one. I sympathize. still doesn’t give one license to be a patronizing asshole, though.

Speaking as a guy who was molested as a child by a woman, I can bet I have decent bit of insight when it comes to sexual abuse and gender difference, and brother, when it happens to us it’s a cakewalk in comparison. In fact, there is no comparison, which is why “what about us guys?” comments are, as Twisty above was too kind to point out, lameass.

I see you’re one of those women (feminists that is) that think sex equality means nothing for men and everything for women (female supremacist / segregationist). No wonder you cannot comprehend what men-as-victim could possibly have to do with a discussion of sexism.

Alternative answer: I was meant to post it in the Pandagon thread mentioned in your update and it landed here by accident. Sorry.

More than happy to hang around and disect your little-girl princess victim-me self-pitying blame-the-nearest-man for everthing feminism for you though. I mean if that’s what you are into as the title of this blog suggests?

If I had to pick one particularly sickening example of this it would be Forty days and forty nights. ‘…One man is about to do the unthinkable. No sex. Whatsoever. For… 40 Days and 40 Nights…’

The end of the film has the male lead, Josh Hartnett, raped by the female “bad guy”. Instead of being understanding as any man would be if his girlfriend was raped, the female lead makes him abjectly apologise for being raped.

And then he’s forgiven and that’s the romantic end.

As the user comment on the linked to page says, “Adorably Frisky Sex Comedy That’s Fair to Both Sexes”.

Yup. When a man’s raped he has to apologise… just like a woman who’s raped would have to do. Nothing like sex equality in the films is there? Oh hang on if a woman was ever raped on film it would be because the entire film was either a horror story or brutal crime film where her rape was held up as an example of horror (not comedy) or else the entire film would be about getting revenge on the rapist and how the rape victim suffers and overcomes the tragic event.