Reply #33: Its not just in ads for kids

[sybylla]

Look at ads playing during adult viewing. How often is the woman portrayed as smart and capable while the man is just a bumbling fool who just couldn't get along in life without her. Shows up in programming too, like Home Improvement, King of Queens, and many more. My spouse grumbles about this all the time and wonders when it became okay to bash the intelligence of men on such a regular basis. It bothers me as well and I often wonder if my boys will be growing up with the same defeatist attitude that I and many of my friends had for awhile growing up as a girl in the 70's when all the women on TV were nothing if they weren't married and taken care of by the much smarter and very capable men.