Reply #10: "Regular guys don't marry women like THK"

[Plaid Adder]

I'm sorry, that's bullshit.

Maybe most 'regular guys' (by which I assume he means blue-collar white men) don't run into a lot of women who grew up in Mozambique, but I don't think somehow that's what he's talking about, and I would just like to say that if I were a 'regular guy', I would find this whole piece really offensive, especially the implication that no 'regular guy' is capable of appreciating a woman who's not a doormat.

I mean really. The first show I ever got hooked on that featured a "regular guy" and his wife was *The Honeymooners.* If Alice Kramden went up against THK in a self-assertion contest I wouldn't want to place bets on who would win. Ditto with the Roseanne Barr show, the King of Queens, and a host of other popular TV shows featuring regular guys married to self-assertive, smart, even dare I say it opinionated women, and pretty much loving it. Is this just a vast pop-culture conspiracy, or does it suggest that perhaps the 'regular guy' might be capable of finding intelligence and independence of will attractive?

Criminy,

The Plaid Adder